P7 - Week Beginning 15 Nov 2010

WELCOME BACK

This is a very busy week - We have two special visitors this week.

• Gillian Tee - Director of Children & Families, Wed 17th
• Ian Murray - MP for Edinburgh South, Fri 19th

Thursday 18th - back by popular demand - Buckstone's Got Talent, by Wednesday 17th P7 needs to have selected two groups to represent them in the final.
Friday 19th is also a Non Uniform Day - The pupils have asked to wear something Spotty and/or Stripey. The children can make donations to Children in Need.

Reading
You should now have all been provided with a new reading book. Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group. Remember to capture notes in your jotter in support of your allocated role; word wizard, summariser, character analyser, question writer or illustrator.

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

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4129726

All pupils will be learning the money words and in particular discovering their meaning.

Language - Summarising Skill

Language - Summarising Skills/Functional Writing
Having been to Lagganlia you will have an excellent knowledge of what makes it such a wonderful place to visit.

You task is create a pamphlet which sells Lagganlia. The pamphlet should:

• Be based on A4 paper/card (folded as required).
• Have a heading.
• Use sub-headings.
• You might use a catchy slogan.
• Be clearly set out (in a logical way).
• Contain information relevant to the audience.
• Be eye catching -(attention grabbing pictures)
• and well organised. 

You might what to include some details 'summarised' from the Lagganlia website - http://www.lagganlia.com/index.html and some comments from visitors (ie you and your friends) about the 'fun' time you can have.

NOTE - You have 2 weeks to complete this activity.

Mathematics
Remember we are using a new web-link to access our Maths. This provides you with more opportunities to earn points as your Maths improves.

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

We will be looking at Money. Each group has been given 1 activity in studyladder (the new name for smartkiddies) to help us understand our knowledge on money.

Many of you often have the opportunity to go on holiday aboard, You will have noticed that you do not use UK Pounds, or pence to pay for goods. Your task is to find out what coins and notes are used to make up the Euro (the currency used in many European countries). You should include pictures of the coins or notes.
A useful site is http://www.eurocoins.co.uk/


P7L
Our homework this week is linked to class work on money.

Task 1: Logon to the new weblink http://www.studyladder.co.uk ; 1 task per group.

TASK 2: Many of you often get the chance to holiday abroad. You will notice that you do not use UK pounds or pence to pay for goods. Your task is to find out what coins and notes make up the Euro (the currency used in the majority of European countries). Record this and include pictures of the coins and notes.

A useful site is http://www.eurocoins.co.uk/