P7 - Week Beginning 28 Feb 2011

Literacy

Reading
Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group.  

Remember to complete the sheet for the role you have been allocated (word wizard, summariser, question writer or illustrator) prior to your meeting.

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

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

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4985929

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

• at least another 4 words ending in 'ive'

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.
 
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4988021

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

Topic Work - Comparative Study - Scotland / Africa

To support our Africa study, we would like to construct an African hut. You need to sketch out a hut design and show on the design what materials you would use to make it; for example how would you make the walls and roof, how would you make the walls 'appear' to be made from mud. Remember, to try and use resources already in school and / or recycled material. Have a look at some African huts to get some ideas.


Numeracy and Mathematics

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

All groups are reviewing perimeters. In addition
the quadrilaterals are looking at ratio whilst the other teams are reviewing decimal numbers.

The following ratio games are for fun if you have time quadrilaterals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/ratioandproportion/ratio/game.shtml
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/ratio-blaster/ratio-blaster.html
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/ratio-stadium/ratio-stadium.html

P7 L
Log in to http://www.studyladder.co.uk/ and undertake tasks assigned to you.

P7 - Week Beginning 7 Feb 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.

You should take notes on the 'Question Words Cards' sheet. This should have sufficient information on it to allow you to create a newspaper article without requiring to read the original (source) news article.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

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

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4789287

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

• at least another 2 words ending in 'tion'
• and 2 ending in 'sion'

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.
 
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4792653
P7L list
Everyone in P7L to learn all words from the 'tion/sion' lists, plus either 4 extra spelling errors from own work or 4 additional 'tion/sion' 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 - This is the second week of this 2 week to activity.

Numeracy & Mathematics

No Maths homework has been set this week.