P7 - Week Beginning 1 Nov 2010

VE DAY -

Please remember to bring in any 'old' games which would have been played during the Second World War. For example; snakes and ladders, tiddly winks, marbles, ludo and card games - old maid, donkey etc.

Reading - Summarising Skill
(Having studied visualisation and predictions skills, we are now investigating summarising skills).

Follow the link : http://www.secondworldwar.org.uk/newspaper.html

This contains various newspaper cuttings from World War 2.

Select two of the newspaper articles (not adverts) and for each:

1. Write a short paragraph to summarise what it is about.
2. Identify the - who, what, why, where and when, elements of the article.
3. Write an alternative headline for the article.
   

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Active Lagganlia vocabulary which may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4048126

For those pupils working on tricky personal spelling words, they should learn words 1 to 9 from the above list and the 10 words on the following list, which you have selected for your group.

P7H list
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4048415

P7L list
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4042821


These words are based on

• activities you may be involved in
• how you work together and
• how you feel.

We expect to see some of these words being used in your Lagganlia daily diaries.

Topic Work - World War 2
This is a very special week, when we are pleased to say that World War 2 will come to an end. You will need to be ready to celebrate VE day, remember to come to school on Friday dressed for fun.

Mathematics

P7 H - Have tasks set up Maths website - http://www.smartkiddies.co.uk/

Work this week is directions & angles


P7L
Our homework this week is linked to class work on angles and compass directions.

Logon to http://www.smartkiddies.co.uk/. There are 2 tasks set for each group.

Keep up the good work P7L!

NOTE -  Smartkiddies has changed the layout of the website - navigate around the website to see what has changed.

Try and login using - http://www.studyladder.co.uk 
You should find it much easier to use than Smartkiddies and more fun as they earn points quicker.