P7 - Week Beginning 21 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 the Healthy Tuck Shop (it includes some Maths vocabulary. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5178853

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research at least another 4 WOW words you could associate with describing the landscape in 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'

NOTE - The spelling list does not display the following words as the Americans spell them differently.

14. Savoury    (American spelling - savory)
15. Yoghurt    (American spelling - yogurt and now used greatly by the manufacturers of this product in the UK) See various discussion sites on this on the Internet.

Topic Work -  Africa - Religion

Use the internet to help you discover about the main religions are in Africa. Continue your research and find the percentage who follow these main religions in four African countries. You should select one country from the north, east, west and south of the continent.

Useful websites are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
and
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/index.html  -- select a region, then a country, then in the new pop-up window select 'people'.

You can complete the table given for homework, or download the Excel file from Glow http://glo.li/dWaBcH
On the example you will see that two different websites have been used to collate information on Kenya, some data is significantly different, why do you think this is?

If possible, for one of your researched countries find the data from two different sources and see if you have differences similar to those found for Kenya.


Numeracy and Mathematics

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

All groups have a task working with weight - converting kg to grams and
a task working with data in a table or with a graph.

P7 L
Log into www.studyladder.co.uk and complete the two set tasks: 1 linked to interpreting data, 1 linked to converting between grams and kilograms.