Hi Primary 7,

Here is the maths game for this week.  Remember to leave a comment to let me know how you found the game.  Good luck.  Here is the link below.

Equivalent fractions

Hi Primary 7,

Click on the link below and play the game Change White Elephant.  Leave a comment to let me know how you got on. 

Change to £20

Find the current exchange rate for pounds to Euros and Euros to pounds.  Include these rates in your answer.

How many Euros would you get for £2, £10, £50, £100?

How many pounds would your get for 10 Euros, 25 Euros, 60 Euros, 200 Euros?

You may use a calculator.  Good luck P7a!

What book are you reading for homework?

What do you think will happen next?

Which country are you going to select for your personal project?  Give 3 reasons why you have picked this country.

Write a paragraph about an event or activity that happened during the holidays!

Hi Primary 7,

Sorry that I won’t get the chance to see you all today but I hope that you are all tucked up and cosy at home in this dreadful weather.  Here is your plan for today.  If you are in touch with anyone without Internet access then maybe you could remind them about their paper copy of the plan (with the snowman in the middle) and let them know what tasks are on the blog today.

9.00-9.30 Practise your 2 – 10 times table find someone to listen to you saying them or just say them out loud to yourself.  Here is a website you might want to use.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf

9.30-10.30 Read the last few chapters of your novel study or your Rainbow Reading Book.  Write a summary of a character, about 200 words, include information about the way they look and behave.  Draw a labelled illustration to match.  Complete this on paper.

10.30-1100 Practise your poem ‘The Ballad of Janitor McKay’ and the song ‘Auld Lang Syne’.  Google search ‘Address to the Toothache’ by Robert Burns and have a read over this.  It is quite tricky.  Let me know what you think!

11.15-12.15  We have been working on line graphs.  Create a graph charting the temperature in Glasgow, Edinburgh,  Aberdeen,  London and Portsmouth today.  You will find the information on the the Internet or on the weather forecast.  Write 5 questions you could ask someone about what you have found. (Take a note of the correct answers.)  Complete this on paper.

1.00-2.00  List 5 famous Scots from the past and 5 famous Scots from the present.  Choose 1 or 2, research them  and write 10 facts about them and  about why they are famous.  Please post this on our blog or complete on paper.

2.00-3.00 We are working on creating new toys this week as part of our enterprise work.  Think about the toy that your group have designed, create a radio advert and a poster advert for it.  Be prepared to share your work tomorrow at school.

Mrs Grant

Green Group

In your own words write a description of the cellar in the George and Dragon, in which Jem and Ned found themselves. (P175-177)

Red Group

Read P74-75.  In your own words write about how Carrie and Nick both felt and reacted to Mr Evans

Yellow Group

In chapter 25 and 26 Scipio was not who be portrayed himself to be.   Write a 300 word story about a character who was not what others thought he/she was.

Rainbow Readers

Write a summary of your book.  Include information about the characters, what happens and if you enjoyed the story.

Robert Burns wrote a poem  ‘A Red, Red Rose’.  How many adjectives can you find to describe a rose?  Record some of your ideas on our blog.

Select 5 challenging words from your reading book/novel. Find the meanings of the words that you have chosen.  Write an alternative word that the author could have used instead.  Add your answer as a comment.