Buckstone P7 Homework

Thursday, 8 March 2012

P7 - Week Beginning12 March 2012

Reading

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

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 20th March.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

Words this week are based vocabulary associated with your African Study. These may be found at:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=8370360

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

research at least another 3 personal words (errors) from previous weeks / or 3 words of your choice.
Perhaps you need to improve the following:

sincerely
favourite
I (NEVER ever spelt 'i' )

As part of our Africa-Scotland comparison study, in class you have been researching an area of interest about Africa such as animals, culture, food, music, geography etc.

For homework this week, please research information about Scotland to compare to your African research (so if you looked at African food find out some interesting facts about Scottish food) and collect together as notes.

Remember to take a note of any books and websites used to be added to the bibliography.

Your notes will be written up in class so they are for your personal use: use whatever method suits you best e.g. bullet points, mind-map, key words/phrases.

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 decimals linked to class work. NOTE - Some pupils have tasks from previous weeks to review to help improve their score.

Remember to target a score of 8/10 or better - until this is achieved the task will remain on your list.

P7 L - Please complete the tasks at www.studyladder.co.uk linked to percentages. Please also finish any incomplete tasks. Your aim in all activities is for a score of 8 or more out of ten.

LEARN-ITS Follow the link to access copies of the Learn-Its tests. These are held in GLOW, so you will need to Log-On.

Saturday, 3 March 2012

P7 - Week Beginning 5 March 2012

Reading

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

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 13th March.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday.

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

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=8297937

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

research at least another 3 words ending in 'able' or 'ible'; try to choose challenging words to add to your list, or
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.

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=7665625

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

Social Studies/Literacy Task:
Your task is to create and write instructions for a dessert recipe using some Fairtrade ingredients, that we will be able to use to help create a Primary Seven Fairtrade recipe book.

For information about Fairtrade products and recipe ideas look at: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Your recipe should include:

Name of your recipe;
List of ingredients including measurements;
Step-by-step instructions including temperatures and timings for cooking.

Present it neatly and accurately on A4 paper, including an illustration of your finished product.

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 decimals linked to class work. NOTE - Some pupils have tasks from previous weeks to review to help improve their score.

Remember to target a score of 8/10 or better - until this is achieved the task will remain on your list.

P7 L - Please complete the 3 tasks linked to classwork on decimals and also catch up on any tasks you have missed, at www.studyladder.co.uk

LEARN-ITS Follow the link to access copies of the Learn-Its tests. These are held in GLOW, so you will need to Log-On.

Friday, 24 February 2012

P7 - Week Beginning 27 Feb 2012

Reading

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

REMEMBER - you will be reporting back to your group on TUESDAY 6th March.

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=8199842

Pupils working solely on the core list are expected to:

research at least another 3 words ending in 'ent' or 'ant'; try to choose challenging words to add to your list, or
3 personal words (errors) from previous weeks / or 3 words of your choice.

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 have a task working with decimals linked to class work. NOTE - Some pupils have tasks from previous weeks to review to help improve their score.

P7 L - Please complete the tasks set up for you at www.studyladder.co.uk based on classwork on decimals.

LEARN-ITS Follow the link to access copies of the Learn-Its tests. These are held in GLOW, so you will need to Log-On.

PSD - My Wider Achievements (form)
You need to complete this form and return it to school. It will then be included in your PLP.

P7L Maths Homework W/B 27.02.12

Please complete the 2 tasks linked to work in class on decimals at www.studyladder.co.uk

Sunday, 19 February 2012

P7 - Week Beginning 20 Feb 2012

Reading

The format of the Literature Circle Group is to change for the rest of the term. P7 will be studying particular authors which will allow groups to report back to others to identify if there are any similarities in the way the author creates their story.

There are a series of new activities to help run the Group.

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 28th February.
Spelling
There are no words on Spelling City this week.

You should review the spelling words used in P7 and compile a list of your own personal 10 tricky spelling words. For those who have performed excellently in spelling test they should review their language work to help in completing this list.

You will work with a partner on a daily basis to help you improve with these tricky words as you will be tested at the end of the week.

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

P7 - Week Beginning 6 Feb 2012

Literacy - MEDIA Studies
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.

Spelling
Learn Spelling Words for Thursday. Words this week are based on Scottish geography and fauna.

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=7902806

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=7665601

Scotland Project Work
Your 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 and Mathematics

P7 H - Have tasks set up on the Maths website -http://www.studyladder.co.uk/
All groups have a task working with fractions linked to class work. This week all groups have 3 tasks.

P7 L - Please complete the tasks set up for you at www.studyladder.co.uk based on classwork on fractions.

LEARN-ITS Follow the link to access copies of the Learn-Its tests. These are held in GLOW, so you will need to Log-On.