P7 - Wed 14 November 2012

Reading
You have now been provided with a new reading book this week. You should read regularly, following the plan agreed by your Literature Circle Group.

You are to read the agreed number of chapters and be prepared to report back to the group following the format discussed in class whilst undertaking the role agreed by your group.

In addition everyone should be prepared to share any words they have found which are either unusual or you do not understand.

You MUST also provide a weekly prediction of what you think will happen next. Remember you must provide your group with information from the text which supports your prediction. (You are able to explain why you think your prediction will occur).

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 20th November.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Wednesday 21stth Nov. This weeks words are Maths vocabulary linked to place value which may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=6922527

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research 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=6922738

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

Language - Summarising Skills/Functional Writing

Continue to create a pamphlet which sells Lagganlia. The criteria for the content and layout of the pamphlet are given on last weeks blog entry.
NOTE - This is the second week of this 2 week activity.


Numeracy and Mathematics







This weeks work is linked to speed and for a change is not on studyladder.

Use newspapers, the internet and other resources to find pictures of different types of vehicles, animals and people. You should rank them in order from slowest to fastest stating the fastest speed they can travel at. Find AT LEAST 10 examples.

You might want to track down some speeds which are world record speeds, eg fastest animal, car etc

For 2 of the transport choices you should find out how long it would take to travel to a destination of your choice.

For example
Travel to London by Bike - Speed 10 mph (miles per hour) - Distance (find from Google maps)
https://maps.google.co.uk/   386 miles

Time = Distance / Speed  = 386 / 10 = 38.6 hours  = 38 hrs 36 mins


If you want paper to create a poster of your speed investigation then please come and ask.

Remember you can also review your LEARN-ITS Follow the link to access copies of the Learn-Its tests.