Buckstone P7 Homework: P7 - Week Beginning 22 Mar 2010

Literacy

Reading
Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on our Comparative Country Investigation - India/Kenya. These words may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2796045

(or you can use the link -

http://www.spellingcity.com/buckstonep7/ and select the Comparative Country Study vocabulary - 20 Mar list).

Topic Work - Comparative Study - Kenya / India

Undertake research into your country of study and find some statistical information (facts and figures). You should find the same information for Scotland to allow a comparison.

You should find 3 sets of information.
For example:
Coastline length -
Kenya 536Km, (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_length_of_coastline)
Scotland 13,115 Km (includes islands) (ref: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/stat-ses/sest2-1.htm)

P7 A
Square Group - Prime, composite and factor numbers
Prime number is one which can only be divided evenly by itself or 1, eg 3,5,7,11
Factor number, is a number which divides exactly into another for example, 1,2,3,4,6,12 are factors of 12.
Composite number is one which can be divided evenly by other numbers. (The oppposite of a prime number).

Use activities set up on smart kiddies - http://www.smartkiddies.co.uk/