P7 - Week Beginning 14 Mar 2011

Literacy

Reading: complete your allocated Literature Circle role please.

• Summariser: full summary of agreed pages.
• Word Wizard: words, page numbers and definitions.
• Illustrator: a picture to sum up the pages read, plus caption/labels.
• Question Writer: try to think of challenging- 'fat' - questions and how you would answer them.

Please ensure that your homework is neatly presented.
Thank you, Miss Lewin / Mr Hyde

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Vocabulary this week is based on words linked to your African study. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5130421

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research at least another 4 WOW words you could associate with Africa; - these may be words you might want to use in your BIG WRITING this week, or
• 4 personal words (errors) from previous weeks.

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'


Literacy / Maths / Social Studies

Continuing on from the survey work undertaken last week.

Results from 15 houses surveyed have been collated onto a spreadsheet found at:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t4kVbxFmM28kiNWyQ0bm17A&output=html


You should analyse this information using your knowledge of Maths to determine:

1. The average (mean) number of book types found in a house. (The average children's books has been calculated for you as an example - 189).

2. The average number of books in total in a house.

3. The range of the book types found in each house. (This has been calculated for the children's books - as an example 651).

It is important in Social Studies work that you can critically look at some data and form an opinion on what the data is "telling" you. For example, is the data what you expected, if not then what might be the reasons for the difference.

Critically look at the data and answer the following.

Maps
4. Some houses have zero or very few maps - why do you think they have a small number?
5. One house has a very large number of maps compared to the others - why do you think they have a lot of maps?

Fiction - Children vs Senior/Adult
6. Which is most popular in a house, children or senior/adult?
7. Why do you think this is the case?

8. Children's books appear to have the greatest range, why do you think this is the case ?
9. What might affect the number of children's books in a house?

Based on the number of books identified in the survey, you might conclude that books are important to these houses.

10. Why do you think they are important?
11. What advantages/benefits can you think of for having books ?
12. Today, so much information is available electronically (digitally), for example on the Internet. Can you think of any advantages/benefits of using electronic books, rather than paper ones?

13. Find one other fact, or provide one more opinion based on the data.

NOTE - You can either answer questions 1 to 3 on the sheet handed out or the Excel Survey file can be down-loaded from GLOW at - http://glo.li/gDykpX
(You will need your GLOW user-id/password)

 A list of questions 4 to 13 can be down- loaded from Glow at - http://glo.li/enmARn