P7 - Week Beginning 16 Jan 2012

Literacy - MEDIA Studies

Reading

During this term we will be studying newspapers. You will be expected to read at least 1 article from a newspaper on a daily basis and report back to your group.

It would be a good idea to use a highlighter to mark points of interest you want to report back on.

For instance you should identify:

• Vocabulary - which you think is interesting or maybe you do not understand.
• Connectives.
• Openers.
• Punctuation.
• Is it FACT or OPINION?
• Any interesting techniques in the 'headline' eg alliteration, rhyming.
• Could you think of a better headline.
• Why you selected this particular article.

If you do not get a daily paper, you will be able to take home some pages from school or you could view some on-line papers and print off the article to bring into school.

http://dailynewspaper.co.uk/ provides links to all the well known UK daily newspapers
http://www.firstnews.co.uk/news/ is an online newspaper for children age 7 - 14
http://www.newspaperforkids.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm

REMEMBER  you are reviewing TEXT  not AUDIO or VIDEO content



SPARE NEWSPAPERS
If you receive a daily newspaper, rather than donate it to the recycle bucket it would be fantastic if you could bring it into school to for the class to use.




WATCH TV
You should watch some TV adverts and find a commercial which you enjoy and uses a 'catch-phrase' or slogan which helps to sell it - try to find one which does not tell you the product name. We will share these in class, when others will try to guess the product.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Words this week are based on 'Poetry' vocabulary.


http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=7639844


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=6994188

Research / Presentation
Our focus this term is divided between investigating Scotland and another country and also exploring the appliance of technology to improve our world.

You are to research into an influential Scottish citizen who has made significant contribution to enhancing society.

You will then need to prepare a presentation of 1 to 2 minutes in length to inform the class about what you have discovered.

NOTE - You have until the 24th Jan to complete your research - you will be expected to present your findings during Scottish Week.

You may find the following websites helpful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scottish_inventors


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
NEGATIVE NUMBERS linked to class work.


The Miraculous Group only have 1 task in Study Ladder they should also complete the online activity at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/laddergame.html    - Level 3

The Marvellous Group only have 1 task in Study Ladder they should also complete the online activity at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/laddergame.html    - Level2

Both of these groups should write down the results of the game in their homework jotter.

P7 L -  
Please complete the tasks set at www.studyladder.co.uk ; 2 quick tasks linked to classwork on negative numbers and 1 revision task addition of large numbers.