P7 - Week Beginning 10 Oct 2011

Topic Work - World War 2 

VE DAY -

This is a special week, when we are pleased to announce that World War 2 will come to an end.

You will need to be ready to celebrate VE day. Remember to come to school on Friday dressed for FUN!

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Active Lagganlia vocabulary which may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=6500383

These words are based on

• activities you may be involved in
• how you work together and
• how you feel.

We expect to see some of these words being used in your Lagganlia daily diaries.

P7 Useful Word list
For those pupils working on Useful Words/Personal Spelling Words, they should learn words on the following list, which you have selected for your group.

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=6500379

Numeracy and Mathematics

P7 H - In class we estimated the distance from Buckstone Primary to Lagganlia using maps. Your task is to use the following Internet websites to:

Find the distance and estimated time suggested by each website. (found from the 'Get Directions button')


You should then be able to calculate the average speed the website has used to calculate the time.


Use     http://www.bing.com/maps/  and     http://maps.google.co.uk/


Additional support for 'Bing Maps'

You will need to use the Post Code for the school - this can be found on 
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory_record/52542/buckstone_primary_school


and the Post Code for Lagganlia, which can be found at:
http://www.lagganlia.com/


Compare the results from the two sites.
Why do you think they are different?
Which one do you think is more accurate for calculating the time and why do you think this?

You could investigate some other travel websites, for example:
The AA   http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp
The RAC  http://www.rac.co.uk/route-planner/


P7 L
Please complete 2 tasks set up on www.studyladder.co.uk to help with your x tables.