P7 - Week Beginning 27 Sept 2010

Literacy

Reading
Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group. Remember to capture notes in your jotter in support of your allocated role; word wizard, summariser, character analyser, question writer or illustrator.


In addition everyone should provide a prediction of what they 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).

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. 2D Shape Vocabulary which may be found at:
 
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=3673789 

For those pupils working on tricky personal spelling words, they should learn words 1 to 9 from the 2D Shape Vocabulary list and the 10 words on the following list.

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=3673901

Link Art - Visualization 

During your visit to the National Art Gallery you had the opportunity to discuss some of the paintings to help you understand what the artist had created.

Using your knowledge look at the following painting taken from the exhibition and create a paragraph/story on the painting. Remember to use some VCOP techniques.

You should include in your response:

• who you think is in the picture
• what they might be thinking/feeling
• do you think the artist would have known them
• what smells would be in the picture
• what sounds might there be
• whose garden is it - a public or personal garden
• what time of the year it is
• and in which country might it have been created.

Do you like / dislike the picture ? - why ?

Follow this link to the Impressionist Gardens Exhibition.

 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition/5:368/9312/19260

Mathematics
 

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

Each pupil has been provided with a unique sign-on using their 'purplebear13??' id

To login,

1. Go the home page, www.smartkiddies.co.uk
2. Find the login box, top right
3. Enter your Group Username: p7hquad, p7hrhom, p7hpar. 
4. Enter your Password: 
5. Click login, green button to submit 
6. Then click your student name and enter your password 
7. If you have set TASKS you will see these first, if none have been set then you have access to the default lessons and activities 
8. Students have 24 hr access from school or home using the login above

Your task is to complete the set TASKS allocated 

Quadrilateral Group - Time Tables / 24 hour clock

Use activities set up on smart kiddies - http://www.smartkiddies.co.uk



Rhombus - School Time Tables / Digital 12 hour time

Use activities set up on smart kiddies - http://www.smartkiddies.co.uk



Parallelogram - School Time Tables / 12 hour time line

Use activities set up on smart kiddies - http://www.smartkiddies.co.uk


P7L

Homework this week is to consolidate our work on Place Value.

Click on this link:

Cubes http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/place_value/place_value.html
Choose Level 3 please.

Cylinders http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/whatarenumbers/comparing/flash1.shtml
Choose Level C please.

Pyramids http://nrich.maths.org/1288
This is a tricky game! Be warned- you must read the instructions very carefully!

Parents, please sign pupils' homework jotters to evidence that they have done their maths homework task. Thank you!

P7 - Week Beginning 20 Sept 2010

Reading - Focus Prediction Skill
 
This week you will start your regular reading, 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 agreed in class.

Your role will be one of the following:

• illustrator / visualiser
• question writer
• summariser
• character analyser
• word wizard

In addition everyone should provide a prediction of what they 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).

You will be expected to continue to predict as you read the book, allowing you to take account of new information and compare to your original thoughts.

P7 - Week Beginning 13 Sept 2010

Reading - Visualization Skill

Read the following extract from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

And with that this brave fellow turned his back directly on the cook, and set off walking for the beach. But he was not destined to go far. With a cry, John seized the branch of a tree, whipped the crutch out of his arm-pit, and sent that uncouth missile hurtling through the air. It struck poor Tom, point foremost, and with stunning violence, right between his shoulders in the middle of the back. His hands flew up, he gave a sort of gasp, and fell.

Whether he were injured much or little, none could ever tell. Like enough, to judge from the sound, his back was broken on the spot. But he had no time given him to recover. Silver, agile as a monkey, even without leg or crutch, was on top of him next moment, and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt in the defenceless body. From my place of ambush, I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows.

The character of Long John is shown to have a different side to his personality, from the pleasant person described in last weeks extract.

Use the information from the text to draw a picture of the action. Ensure you draw Long John in a way which shows that he has a negative trait.

Why do you think the author used the simile "hopping like a bird" in the first extract, but "agile as a monkey" in the second?

P7 - Week Beginning 6 Sept 2010

Reading - Visualization Skill

Read the following extract from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

As I was waiting, a man came out of a side room, and, at a glance, I was sure he must be Long John. His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird. He was very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham - plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling. Indeed, he seemed in the most cheerful spirits, whistling as he moved about among the tables, with a merry word or a slap on the shoulder for the most favoured of his guests.

Now,to tell the truth,from the very first mention of Long John in Squire Trelawney's letter, I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one-legged sailor whom I had watched for so long at the old "Benbow". But one look at the man before me was enough. I had seen the captain, and Black Dog, and the blind man Pew, and I thought I knew what a buccaneer was like - a very different creature, according to me, from this clean and pleasant-tempered landlord.

Your task is to sketch Long John, labelling your drawing with any words or phrases from the passage that contribute to the image you have of him.

Do you think Long John is a pleasant or unpleasant character ?
What words from the extract make you think this ?

P7 - Week Beginning 30 Aug 2010

Reading - Visualization Skill

Read the following extract from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The paper had been sealed in several places with a thimble by way of a seal; the very thimble, perhaps, that I had found in the captain's pocket. The doctor opened the seals with great care, and there fell out the map of an island, with latitude and longitude, soundings, names of hills, and bays and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to safe anchorage upon its shores. It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine land-locked harbours, and a hill in the centre marked "The Spy-glass", There were several additions of a later date; but above all, three crosses of red ink - two on the north part of the island, one in the south-west, and, beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: "Bulk of treasure here".

Your task is to create your own treasure map using the information from the above extract. To help, it is a good idea to highlight the words and phrases that describe the location and terrain.

Why do you think the hill is called "Spy-glass"?

P7 - Week Beginning 23 Aug 2010

Reading

Read the following poem by Joe Miller.

If the Earth

Then answer the following. (Remember there is no specific correct answer, you should base your response on your personal thoughts of what the poet is wanting to 'say' to the reader).

1. Why do you think the poet shaped the poem like this?
2. What wonders of the world are described ?
3. Some of the features (wonders) of the world are described by the poet using unusual language, for example, 'big pools of water' refer to the sea. Select one of these unusual terms, what does it mean?
4. Why do you think the poet used the unusual term?
5. What is the overall message (main point) the poet is making to the reader?