P7 - Week Beginning 17 Jan 2011

Literacy

Reading

During this term we will be studying newspapers. You will be expected to read at least 1 article from a newspaper on a daily basis and report back to your group.

It would be a good idea to use a highlighter to mark points of interest you want to report back on.

For instance you should identify:

• Vocabulary - which you think is interesting or maybe you do not understand.
• Connectives.
• Openers.
• Punctuation.
• Is it FACT or OPINION?
• Any interesting techniques in the 'headline' eg alliteration, rhyming.
• Could you think of a better headline.
• Why you selected this particular article.

If you do not get a daily paper, you will be able to take home some pages from school or you could view some on-line papers and print off the article to bring into school.

http://dailynewspaper.co.uk/ provides links to all the well known UK daily newspapers
http://www.firstnews.co.uk/news/ is an online newspaper for children age 7 - 14
http://www.newspaperforkids.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm

REMEMBER  you are reviewing TEXT  not AUDIO or VIDEO content



Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on words with a suffix, less or ment. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4606322

NOTE - spelling city does not allow entering of 'colourless' and 'odourless'. The list displays colour and odour

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to research and find:

• at least another 2 words ending in ment 
• and 2 ending in less

You may be tested on some of these words at the end of the week.

For those pupils working on tricky personal spelling words, they should learn words 1 to 6 from the above list and the words on the following list, which you have selected for your group.

P7H list
To be agreed by group
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4606374


P7L list
To be agreed by group
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4606380


Research / Presentation
Our focus this term is divided between investigating Scotland and another country and also exploring the appliance of technology to improve our world.

You are to research into an influential Scottish citizen who has made significant contribution to enhancing society.

You will then need to prepare a presentation of 1 to 2 minutes in length to inform the class about what you have discovered.

NOTE - You have until the 24th Jan to complete your research - you will be expected to present your findings during Scottish Week.

You may find the following websites helpful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scottish_inventors


Numeracy & Mathematics


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. Please remember you have a new sign-on and password so you can sign-on directly rather than as the group.

P7 H - Have tasks set up Maths website - http://www.studyladder.co.uk
which continue our focus on multiplying by 10,100, 1000 and multiplying decimals.

P7 L
Log in to http://www.studyladder.co.uk/ there are 2 tasks for everybody to help your speed with times tables and to practice halving numbers up to 100.