P7 - Week Beginning 28 May 2012

HOPES & DREAMS - book back in for Tuesday 29 May

 

Reading: On going reading throughout the week, following your own literacy plan created for your own personal book study.

Remember, you will need to be ready to report back to a selection of the class on what you have discovered/analysed about your book. 

Please ensure that your homework is neatly presented.Thank you, Miss Lewin / Mr Hyde

Your task this week

• To check your reading plan, you will be expected to have completed your book in the next 3 weeks.
• Create a prediction on what you think will occur at the end of the book - based on what you have discovered - remember to give evidence (with page number) to support your thoughts.
• Identify a particular part of the story where the writer has used a language technique eg:
•  alliteration - repetition of sound eg. Big Blue Bike.
•  onomatopoeia - sounds like what it refers to eg. Pop, Bang etc.
•  Personification - giving human qualities to something lifeless eg. The door squeaked.
•  Metaphor -  something is said to be something else eg. You're a bear.
•  Contrast - to show difference when comparing
•  Smiles, - to show how something is similar eg Like/as.
•  Short sentence
• Why do you think the writer used this?
• If you cannot find any of the above, then you should create 2 of your own and state where in the book you would advise the author to add them.

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on WEDNESDAY 6th June. 


Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on Theatre vocabulary. These words may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5672831

Can you think of 4 WOW! words you would associate with the theatre?

P7 Useful Word listThe team who work on these list should select 8 words from the above list to learn.

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee
On Monday 4th June Buckstone Primary will be celebrating the Jubilee with various events. To support this P7 have been tasked with:

• identifying major events which have occurred since the queen was crowned on the 2 June 1953.
• You should identify 4 events, which will be used to create a timeline in the class.
• a person related event
• an event linked with technology
• an event of significance to the UK
• an event of significance to the world (non UK based)

P7 Show
To support the P7 show it is important you know the script and music by heart.

You have now been allocated a role - it is now time to ensure you are familiar with your character and have started to leran the script.

Remember the  lyrics and music can be found using the links below:

http://buckstoneradio.podbean.com/

The lyrics are at
 http://buckstonep7hw.blogspot.co.uk/p/treasure-island-lyrics.html


Remember there is only 4 weeks to go until the opening night.

P7 - Week Beginning 14 May 2012

Reading: On going reading throughout the week, following your own literacy plan created for your own personal book study.

Remember, you will need to be ready to report back to a selection of the class on what you have discovered/analysed about your book. 

Please ensure that your homework is neatly presented.Thank you, Miss Lewin / Mr Hyde

Your task this week

• Create a further prediction based on what you have discovered - remember to give evidence (with page number) to support your thoughts.
• Remember to record details on your WORD finder sheet.
• Complete the final 8 sections of the sheet to help support your analysis of your book.

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on WEDNESDAY 23rd May. 


Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on vocabulary / words ending in -ous / -ious
These may be found at:


http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=8962186

P7 Useful Word listThe team who work on these list should select 8 words from the above list to learn.

  Olympic Assembly

Note - This is a 2 week task, to be completed by  Thursday 24th.

During the week commencing 28th May, we will be celebrating Olympic Week. On Friday 1st June each class is to represent a particular country.

P7 are representing Team GB.

Your task is to investigate some interesting information about team GB during the life of Modern Olympics, which started in 1896.

You will be allocated 1 of the 27 years when a Summer Olympic occurred to research:

• Where did it occur ?
• What was the size of the GB Team ?
• Significant achievements / unusual events
• Stars of the GB Team. 
• + anything else you think is of interest

It would be fantastic to create a time line of your findings - so you will need to capture your information on a poster.

In addition, you should select 1 member of the current GB team to investigate. You will be expected to get into 'character' for your member, identifying what your HOPES & DREAMS are for this unique event.

REMEMBER you could be a Paralympic representative.

You will need to inform Miss Lewin / Mr Hyde of your character as we would like to have 58 individual representatives.

The folowing sites will help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games


"BETTER NEVER STOPS"


  Numeracy and Mathematics


P7 H - Have tasks set up on the Maths website -http://www.studyladder.co.uk/
All groups have 2 tasks about Volume / 3D Shape.
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.

P7 L - 
Please complete 2 tasks linked to 3-D shape at www.studyladder.co.uk
Cara, James, Christopher, David, Jake, Ross, Maureen and Zainab- all have one or more task still to complete from previous weeks.  Please add these to this week's tasks.

P7 Show

To support the P7 show it is important you know the script and music by heart.

Over the coming weeks this part of the homework will focus on learning your words - either for a part or the lyrics to a song.

The first few songs to learn can be viewed & played at:

http://buckstoneradio.podbean.com/

You should learn Jim's Blues + A Little Bit of Rum

The lyrics are at
 http://buckstonep7hw.blogspot.co.uk/p/treasure-island-lyrics.html

P7 - Week Beginning 7 May 2012

Reading: On going reading throughout the week, following your own literacy plan created for your own personal book study.

Remember, you will need to be ready to report back to a selection of the class on what you have discovered/analysed about your book. 

Please ensure that your homework is neatly presented.Thank you, Miss Lewin / Mr Hyde

Your task this week

• Create a further prediction based on what you have discovered - remember to give evidence (with page number) to support your thoughts.
• Complete 8 sections of the sheet to help support your analysis of your book. (You will complete the other 8 sections next week).

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY15th May.  

P7 Show
To support the P7 show it is important you know the script and music by heart.

Over the coming weeks this part of the homework will focus on learning your words - either for a part or the lyrics to a song.

The first few songs to learn can be viewed & played at:

http://buckstoneradio.podbean.com/

You should learn Skull & Crossbones

The lyrics are at
 http://buckstonep7hw.blogspot.co.uk/p/treasure-island-lyrics.html