P7 - Week Beginning 21 Nov 2011

Reading

Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group. Remember to capture notes on your sheets in support of your allocated role.

In addition to your role you should always be thinking about:

• providing a prediction of what you think will happen next, with information which supports your prediction.
• words you have found interesting/unusual or do not understand.

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 29th November.

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Words this week are based on Rights and Responsibilities - with a particular focus on supporting others when a disaster occurs.


http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=7189757


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=6994054

Science - Research / Presentation

This is WEEK 2 of this research.

You are to research into an important current scientific breakthrough and report back to the class. This will support you in developing your understanding of the importance of Science in today’s world.

Your report can be based on a leaflet, powerpoint, poster or written report. These ‘documents’ are to support your findings to be shared with the class.

Areas you might want to investigate include:

• Health/Medicine
• Transport
• Technology
• Space
• Power

NOTE - This is a 2 week activity. You have until the 24th Nov to complete your research.

You should also be prepared to explain to the class your research and why you selected this particular break through to report on.

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 area linked to class work.
Note - the Miraculous team have an on-line sheet to complete - can you please print this off when complete.

P7 L - 
Please find 2 tasks relating to multiplication by 10 and 100 and by multiples of 10 at www.studyladder.co.uk

P7 - Week Beginning 14 Nov 2011

Reading

Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group. Remember to capture notes on your sheets in support of your allocated role.

In addition to your role you should always be thinking about:

• providing a prediction of what you think will happen next, with information which supports your prediction.
• words you have found interesting/unusual or do not understand.

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 22nd November.

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Words this week are based on 'small' words which often cause a problem, many of these are homophones. There are a lot (27, which are grouped into 13 'families') but they are not difficult words to spell, you need to make sure you use the correct spelling within a sentence. 

There are 2 lists of words in spelling city, one grouped to aid learning and the other mixed for the test. 


http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=7097208 - (mixed)

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=7103890 - (grouped)

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=6993973

Science - Research / Presentation

You are to research into an important current scientific breakthrough and report back to the class. This will support you in developing your understanding of the importance of Science in today’s world.

Your report can be based on a leaflet, powerpoint, poster or written report. These ‘documents’ are to support your findings to be shared with the class.

Areas you might want to investigate include:

• Health/Medicine
• Transport
• Technology
• Space
• Power

NOTE - This is a 2 week activity. You have until the 24th Nov to complete your research.

You should also be prepared to explain to the class your research and why you selected this particular break through to report on.

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 place value linked to class work.
Note - the Miraculous team have an on-line sheet to complete - can you please print this off when complete.

P7 L - to be set
Please complete 2 tasks related to class work on Decimals at www.studyladder.co.uk

P7 - Week Beginning 7 Nov 2011

Reading

Ongoing reading throughout the week, following the plan agreed by each Literature Circle Group. Remember to capture notes on your sheets in support of your allocated role.

In addition to your role you should always be thinking about:

• providing a prediction of what you think will happen next, with information which supports your prediction.
• words you have found interesting/unusual or do not understand.

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 15th November.

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Words this week are based on words with a prefix, (in, mis & im) which create an opposite word. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=4374330


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=6993914


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  



P7 H - Have tasks set up on the Maths website -http://www.studyladder.co.uk/
All groups have a task working with place value linked to class work.

P7 L - to be set
Please find 2 tasks set up relating to Place Value at www.studyladder.co.uk

Spelling City Problems - How to Fix

In case you are having some problems running spelling city, use the following links to help solve your issue.

http://www.spellingcity.com/continous-loading.html - continuous loading - try a different browser (explorer, firefox, safari) or may an issue with flash player.

http://www.spellingcity.com/clearing-your-cache.html - clearing your cache

You can always contact their technical department to help resolve your issue. Use http://www.spellingcity.com/Contact-Us/SpellingCity.com.html

P7 - Week Beginning 31 Oct 2011

WELCOME BACK

After a fun filled week at Lagganlia, it is time to return to the indoor classroom which includes homework.

Reading
You will be 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 8th November.

 

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Maths vocabulary linked to place value which may be found at:

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


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

Language - Summarising Skills/Functional Writing
Having been to Lagganlia you will have an excellent knowledge of what makes it such a wonderful place to visit.

You task is create a pamphlet which sells Lagganlia. 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. 

You might what to include some details 'summarised' from the Lagganlia website - http://www.lagganlia.com/index.html and some comments from visitors (ie you and your friends) about the 'fun' time you can have.

NOTE - You have 2 weeks to complete this activity.



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 place value linked to class work.

P7 L 
Please complete 2 tasks linked to number work found at http://www.studyladder.co.uk/

P7 - Week Beginning 10 Oct 2011

Topic Work - World War 2 

VE DAY -

This is a special week, when we are pleased to announce that World War 2 will come to an end.

You will need to be ready to celebrate VE day. Remember to come to school on Friday dressed for FUN!

Spelling

Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Active Lagganlia vocabulary which may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=6500383

These words are based on

• activities you may be involved in
• how you work together and
• how you feel.

We expect to see some of these words being used in your Lagganlia daily diaries.

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=6500379

Numeracy and Mathematics

P7 H - In class we estimated the distance from Buckstone Primary to Lagganlia using maps. Your task is to use the following Internet websites to:

Find the distance and estimated time suggested by each website. (found from the 'Get Directions button')


You should then be able to calculate the average speed the website has used to calculate the time.


Use     http://www.bing.com/maps/  and     http://maps.google.co.uk/


Additional support for 'Bing Maps'

You will need to use the Post Code for the school - this can be found on 
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory_record/52542/buckstone_primary_school


and the Post Code for Lagganlia, which can be found at:
http://www.lagganlia.com/


Compare the results from the two sites.
Why do you think they are different?
Which one do you think is more accurate for calculating the time and why do you think this?

You could investigate some other travel websites, for example:
The AA   http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp
The RAC  http://www.rac.co.uk/route-planner/


P7 L
Please complete 2 tasks set up on www.studyladder.co.uk to help with your x tables.