P7 - Wed 23 January 2013

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. Minimum of 5 articles to share with the class.

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.

In addition one of your newspaper reports should be on an article where you can highlight the following features found in many newspaper articles:

• When
• What
• Who
• Where
• What happened
• Then what happened
• Eye witness
• Conclusion

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

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Wednesday 30th Jan. Words this week are based on 'Poetry' vocabulary. These words may be found at:

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


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.

https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=6994120

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


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 on paper so they can share it in class.

P7 L -  
Please complete the tasks set at 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 on paper so they can share it in class.