P7 - Week Beginning 24 Jan 2011

Literacy

Reading

We are continuing our study of newspapers. The format will continue as per last weeks homework, reading at least 1 article from a newspaper on a daily basis and reporting back to your group.

To support your journalistic role it would be advantageous to select articles which support the area you have been tasked to complete in the creation of the newspaper at the end of the week.
 
Points from last weeks blog are copied below:

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 ending in 'ough' and ' ought'. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4654045

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

• at least another 2 words ending in ough
• and 2 ending in ought

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

Remember if you spelt any words incorrectly, you will need to learn these so you can transfer them to your 'friendly' word list in your 'Helpful Spelling Jotter'


P7H list
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.
 
To be agreed by group
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4606380


P7L list
Everyone in P7L to learn all words from the 'ough/ought' lists, plus either 4 extra spelling errors from own work or 4 additional 'ough/ought' words, whichever applies to you. Great spelling results last week- well done everyone!

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.

Continue your research into an influential Scottish citizen who has made significant contribution to enhancing society.

You should be prepared to make a presentation of 1 to 2 minutes in length to inform the class about what you have discovered.

NOTE - This is the second week of this 2 week activity.

Did anyone see the BBC News article on Charles Macintosh on Friday 21st Jan?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12250424

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 on the Maths website - http://www.studyladder.co.uk
These all focus on multiplication.Most of you have completed all tasks to date - well done, unfortunately a few of you have some outstanding tasks from previous weeks.

P7 L
Log in to http://www.studyladder.co.uk/ there are 2 tasks for
P7L- 2 tasks for each group: one to improve our speed at the 7 x table, the other to continue work on x by 10, 100 and 1000. Well done to everyone who completed both homework tasks last week, those who didn't will find last week's tasks as well as this week's.