P7 - Week Beginning 28 Nov 2011

REMEMBER - On Friday 2 Dec we are visiting Dynamic Earth. During our visit we will be enjoying a film, a workshop on volcanism and plate tectonics and of course a tour of the visitor attraction.

See http://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/home for a flavour of what to expect.





Reading

Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group. Remember to capture notes on your sheets in support of your allocated role.

In addition to your role you should always be thinking about:

• providing a prediction of what you think will happen next, with information which supports your prediction.
• words you have found interesting/unusual or do not understand.

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 6th December.

If you have completed reading your book, then this weeks task is create a Book Review.

For the 'Pinocchio' team who created a Book Review last week they should read the following poem by Roger McGough.

The New Poem (for 18 words) (by Roger McGough)

New words

Should be used to being

Where they have not yet got.

So this is the poem.

This poem is the words,

So new, have yet

Not got used to being.

Where should they be?

This poem is so new

The words have not yet

Got used to being

Where they should be.

Then answer the following. (Remember there is no specific correct answer, you should base your response on your personal thoughts of what the poet is wanting to 'say' to the reader).

1. Why do you think the poet has used this particular title?
2. What happens to the 18 words as the stanzas progress ?
3. Highlight which lines and phrases which make sense.
4. Find any other way of using the 18 words to make a new statement or question.
5. Explain how the poet has used the words in each stanza so that the poem makes sense to the reader by the time they have finished reading the poem.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Words this week are based on 'Structures of the Earth' vocabulary.


http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4261745

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=6994120

Topic Work - Structures of the Earth

Carry out your own research to find an interesting natural structure of the Earth. You should:

• Bring in a photo of your structure
• Be able to say why you selected the particular structure
• Provide some facts on your selected structure, eg: background information on how/when it may have been formed.

You will then use this information to create a poster to be displayed in class

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 area area and money linked to class work on your El Hierro project.
Note - The money activities are for small change and not hundreds of thousands of pounds.

P7 L -  
Please complete 2 tasks: 1 linked to area, 1 linked to money at www.studyladder.co.uk to help with your El Hierro project work in class.