P7 - Week Beginning 19 March 2012

Reading

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

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 27th March.  

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on Energy. The pupils are investigating energy this week, which will include working with other P7 pupils in the cluster at Boroughmuir High School on Wednesday. These words may be found at:


http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=8445564

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research at least another 3 personal words (errors) from previous weeks / or 3 words of your choice.

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'

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=7665644

In addition you should add 2 personal words that you want to learn (these could be based on errors from previous weeks).

Social Studies Research

P7H - Last week for homework you took an area you wanted to research further and gathered information about this aspect relevant to Scotland.

This week you should do the same exercise but for Africa.

Again make notes based on your investigations, which you can then use in class to write up your findings. (Use bullet points, mind maps, key words/phrases etc).

Remember to take a note of any books and websites used to be added to the bibliography.

P7L- task will be explained 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 decimals linked to class work. NOTE - Some pupils have tasks from previous weeks to review to help improve their score.

Remember to target a score of 8/10 or better - until this is achieved the task will remain on your list.

This week all groups have 3 tasks.

P7 L -  3 tasks linked to classwork about angles at www.studyladder.co.uk ; please also catch up on any unfinished tasks or re-try tasks if you scored below 7 out of 10.

LEARN-ITS Follow the link to access copies of the Learn-Its tests.  These are held in GLOW, so you will need to Log-On.