P7 - Week Beginning 28 Mar 2011

Literacy

Reading: complete your allocated Literature Circle role please.

• Summariser: full summary of agreed pages.
• Word Wizard: words, page numbers and definitions.
• Illustrator: a picture to sum up the pages read, plus caption/labels.
• Question Writer: try to think of challenging- 'fat' - questions and how you would answer them.

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

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Vocabulary this week is based on words ending in 'al and ial'. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5234607

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research at least another 4 words ending in 'al'or 'ial'; try to choose challenging words to add to your list, or
• 4 personal words (errors) from previous weeks.

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'


Topic Work - Comparative Study - Africa / Scotland

Undertake research into an African country and find some statistical information (facts and figures). You should find the same information for Scotland to allow a comparison.

You should find 3 sets of information.
For example:
Coastline length -
Kenya 536Km, (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_length_of_coastline)
Scotland 13,115 Km (includes islands) (ref: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/stat-ses/sest2-1.htm)

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 decimal numbers and
a task working with data in a table or with a graph.

P7 L
Log into www.studyladder.co.uk and complete the two set tasks: based around working with decimal numbers and data handling, linked to classwork.

P7 - Week Beginning 21 Mar 2011

Literacy

Reading: complete your allocated Literature Circle role please.

• Summariser: full summary of agreed pages.
• Word Wizard: words, page numbers and definitions.
• Illustrator: a picture to sum up the pages read, plus caption/labels.
• Question Writer: try to think of challenging- 'fat' - questions and how you would answer them.

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

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Vocabulary this week is based on words linked to the Healthy Tuck Shop (it includes some Maths vocabulary. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5178853

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research at least another 4 WOW words you could associate with describing the landscape in Africa; - these may be words you might want to use in your BIG WRITING this week, or
• 4 personal words (errors) from previous weeks.

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'

NOTE - The spelling list does not display the following words as the Americans spell them differently.

14. Savoury    (American spelling - savory)
15. Yoghurt    (American spelling - yogurt and now used greatly by the manufacturers of this product in the UK) See various discussion sites on this on the Internet.

Topic Work -  Africa - Religion

Use the internet to help you discover about the main religions are in Africa. Continue your research and find the percentage who follow these main religions in four African countries. You should select one country from the north, east, west and south of the continent.

Useful websites are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
and
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/index.html  -- select a region, then a country, then in the new pop-up window select 'people'.

You can complete the table given for homework, or download the Excel file from Glow http://glo.li/dWaBcH
On the example you will see that two different websites have been used to collate information on Kenya, some data is significantly different, why do you think this is?

If possible, for one of your researched countries find the data from two different sources and see if you have differences similar to those found for Kenya.


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 weight - converting kg to grams and
a task working with data in a table or with a graph.

P7 L
Log into www.studyladder.co.uk and complete the two set tasks: 1 linked to interpreting data, 1 linked to converting between grams and kilograms.

P7 - Week Beginning 14 Mar 2011

Literacy

Reading: complete your allocated Literature Circle role please.

• Summariser: full summary of agreed pages.
• Word Wizard: words, page numbers and definitions.
• Illustrator: a picture to sum up the pages read, plus caption/labels.
• Question Writer: try to think of challenging- 'fat' - questions and how you would answer them.

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

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Vocabulary this week is based on words linked to your African study. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5130421

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research at least another 4 WOW words you could associate with Africa; - these may be words you might want to use in your BIG WRITING this week, or
• 4 personal words (errors) from previous weeks.

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'


Literacy / Maths / Social Studies

Continuing on from the survey work undertaken last week.

Results from 15 houses surveyed have been collated onto a spreadsheet found at:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t4kVbxFmM28kiNWyQ0bm17A&output=html


You should analyse this information using your knowledge of Maths to determine:

1. The average (mean) number of book types found in a house. (The average children's books has been calculated for you as an example - 189).

2. The average number of books in total in a house.

3. The range of the book types found in each house. (This has been calculated for the children's books - as an example 651).

It is important in Social Studies work that you can critically look at some data and form an opinion on what the data is "telling" you. For example, is the data what you expected, if not then what might be the reasons for the difference.

Critically look at the data and answer the following.

Maps
4. Some houses have zero or very few maps - why do you think they have a small number?
5. One house has a very large number of maps compared to the others - why do you think they have a lot of maps?

Fiction - Children vs Senior/Adult
6. Which is most popular in a house, children or senior/adult?
7. Why do you think this is the case?

8. Children's books appear to have the greatest range, why do you think this is the case ?
9. What might affect the number of children's books in a house?

Based on the number of books identified in the survey, you might conclude that books are important to these houses.

10. Why do you think they are important?
11. What advantages/benefits can you think of for having books ?
12. Today, so much information is available electronically (digitally), for example on the Internet. Can you think of any advantages/benefits of using electronic books, rather than paper ones?

13. Find one other fact, or provide one more opinion based on the data.

NOTE - You can either answer questions 1 to 3 on the sheet handed out or the Excel Survey file can be down-loaded from GLOW at - http://glo.li/gDykpX
(You will need your GLOW user-id/password)

 A list of questions 4 to 13 can be down- loaded from Glow at - http://glo.li/enmARn

P7 - Week Beginning 7 Mar 2011

Literacy

Reading: complete your allocated Literature Circle role please.

• Summariser: full summary of agreed pages.
• Word Wizard: words, page numbers and definitions.
• Illustrator: a picture to sum up the pages read, plus caption/labels.
• Question Writer: try to think of challenging- 'fat' - questions and how you would answer them.

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

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on words ending in 'ent' or 'ant'. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5056056

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

• research at least another 4 words ending in 'ent'or 'ant'; try to choose challenging words to add to your list, or
• 4 personal words (errors) from previous weeks.

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'

P7H list
For those pupils working on tricky personal spelling words, they should learn words 1 to 6 from the above list and the words on the following list, which you have selected for your group.

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5062203

P7L list
Another super week last week- well done P7L! This week our spelling words end in either -ant or -ent, plus 4 personal words (errors) or an extra 4 -ant, -ent words. Try to choose challenging words to add to your list.

Literacy / Maths
Thursday 3rd March was World Book Day and Saturday 5th March was World Book Night, when one million books started to be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.



Maybe you have been fortunate in your family and received one of these books.

Your task is to undertake a survey and discover how many books you have in your house. This will help us understand the importance of books in our lives and what types of book are more common.

You should use the following categories for your count.

Fictional Books (novels) - (Note - we are not categorising by genre).
1. Suitable for children up to the end of Primary School.
2. Suitable for Senior School children and adults.

Non-Fiction Books (Functional Books) -
1. Instruction Books (eg cookbooks, instruction manuals, home improvement books).
2. Maps
3. Reference Books (eg information book, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus).
4. Others (used if you cannot categorise your book into the above headings).


Numeracy and Mathematics

P7 H - Have tasks set up on the Maths website - http://www.studyladder.co.uk

All groups have a problem solving task.
To prepare for the tuck shop some of you have been given tasks related to Money.

The Rhombus group should work on the site - White Elephant Shop, change from £20.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-money-and-mean.html#Change_white_elephant

Quadrilaterals are tasked with working with negative numbers.

P7 L
Log in to http://www.studyladder.co.uk/. There is 1 task related to Algebra and 1 task linked to mixed problem solving. Hint: you may need scrap paper and a pencil handy to do some of the working out.

P7 - Week Beginning 28 Feb 2011

Literacy

Reading
Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group.  

Remember to complete the sheet for the role you have been allocated (word wizard, summariser, question writer or illustrator) prior to your meeting.

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on words ending in 'ive. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4985929

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to research and find:

• at least another 4 words ending in 'ive'

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'

P7H list
For those pupils working on tricky personal spelling words, they should learn words 1 to 6 from the above list and the words on the following list, which you have selected for your group.
 
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4988021

P7L list
Everyone in P7L to learn all words from the 'ive' lists, plus either 4 extra spelling errors from own work or 4 additional 'ive' words, whichever applies to you.

Topic Work - Comparative Study - Scotland / Africa

To support our Africa study, we would like to construct an African hut. You need to sketch out a hut design and show on the design what materials you would use to make it; for example how would you make the walls and roof, how would you make the walls 'appear' to be made from mud. Remember, to try and use resources already in school and / or recycled material. Have a look at some African huts to get some ideas.


Numeracy and Mathematics

P7 H - Have tasks set up on the Maths website - http://www.studyladder.co.uk

All groups are reviewing perimeters. In addition
the quadrilaterals are looking at ratio whilst the other teams are reviewing decimal numbers.

The following ratio games are for fun if you have time quadrilaterals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/ratioandproportion/ratio/game.shtml
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/ratio-blaster/ratio-blaster.html
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/ratio-stadium/ratio-stadium.html

P7 L
Log in to http://www.studyladder.co.uk/ and undertake tasks assigned to you.

P7 - Week Beginning 7 Feb 2011

Literacy

Reading

We are continuing our study of newspapers. The format will continue as per last weeks homework, reading at least 1 article from a newspaper on a daily basis 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.

You should take notes on the 'Question Words Cards' sheet. This should have sufficient information on it to allow you to create a newspaper article without requiring to read the original (source) news article.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based on words ending in 'tion' and 'sion'. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4789287

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to research and find:

• at least another 2 words ending in 'tion'
• and 2 ending in 'sion'

You may be tested on some of these words at the end of the week.

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'

P7H list
For those pupils working on tricky personal spelling words, they should learn words 1 to 6 from the above list and the words on the following list, which you have selected for your group.
 
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4792653
P7L list
Everyone in P7L to learn all words from the 'tion/sion' lists, plus either 4 extra spelling errors from own work or 4 additional 'tion/sion' words, whichever applies to you.

Scotland Project WorkYou task is create a pamphlet which sells our great nation (Scotland) to the rest of the world. The pamphlet should:

• Be based on A4 paper/card (folded as required).
• Have a heading.
• Use sub-headings.
• You might use a catchy slogan.
• Be clearly set out (in a logical way).
• Contain information relevant to the audience.
• Be eye catching -(attention grabbing pictures)
• and well organised.

NOTE - This is the second week of this 2 week to activity.

Numeracy & Mathematics

No Maths homework has been set this week.