P7 - Week Beginning 31 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.
 
See previous blog messages to remind you of points to report back on.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on words ending in 'able' and 'ible'. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4720854

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

• at least another 2 words ending in 'able'
• and 2 ending in 'ible'

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=4738660


P7L list
Everyone in P7L to learn all words from the 'able/ible' lists, plus either 4 extra spelling errors from own work or 4 additional 'able/ible' words, whichever applies to you.

 Scotland Project WorkYou task is create a pamphlet which sells our great nation (Scotland) to the rest of the world. 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.

NOTE - You have 2 weeks to complete this activity.

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 division. (Remember halving a number is the same as dividing by 2, or multiplying by 0.5). 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/ 
Please complete the 2 tasks set for your group linked to multiplication and division.