P7 - Wed 30 January 2013

Literacy - MEDIA Studies
   
Reading

We are continuing our study of newspapers. The format will continue as per last weeks homework, reading at least 5 articles from a newspaper and reporting back to your group.

To support your journalistic role it would be advantageous to select articles which support the area you have been tasked to complete in the creation of the newspaper at the end of the week.
 
See previous blog messages to remind you of points to report back on.

At least one of the articles should be where the journalist is providing an OPINION on a news item. Highlight key sentences which are the writers or others opinion.

Writing - Magazine Article

You are going to plan a magazine article on ‘Food Packaging.” Think about what is wrong with some food packaging. Think of some arguments you might put to food manufacturers and express your objections. Brainstorm sections for your article. E.g

• An introductory paragraph
• What is over packaging?
• Why is it a problem?
• Why do food manufacturer do it?
• Examples of over packaging
• Examples of sensible packaging
• What can you do?

Make brief notes against each sub heading. Think of a good headline for the article, using alliteration, rhyme or punning?

 

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

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=7820947

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=6994151

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 & P7C - Your task this week is to plot on a graph the daily MAX & MIN temperatures for Edinburgh Airport

You can use the data displayed at 
http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/edinburgh/historic

as your source of information (hopefully it will go below 0 degrees)

Remember your graph should have

• A title
• An X axis 
• A Y axis

We can supply graph paper - you will need to decide on how to layout the graph - try and use all the paper.

You should plot the historical temperatures FROM the 24th Jan and continue to plot on a daily basis until the 5th Feb.