Numeracy Challenge

Can you plan and cost the price of Christmas dinner for your family? What is the best value for money you have found?

• Write a list of all the items you need for your family Christmas dinner. (Don’t forget drinks and crackers!)
• Research how much the items cost – you can do this online or with an adult if you are in the shops.
• Identify what is best value for money. Were all of the items from the same shop or would you have to go to different shops?
• Include a conclusion detailing what you have found.

Literacy Challenge

Can you write a Christmas poem? Using everything you have learned so far, choose your own structure to follow and create a poem!

• Choose your structure (repetitive, Haiku, ‘I Am’, acrostic…)
• Describe Christmas and what it means to you
• Make clear stanzas
• Include a metaphor or simile
• Include personification
• Choose appropriate punctuation
• Illustrate your poem

IDL Challenge

Create a greetings card to send to someone at this time of year. Use Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs to help you create your own!

This will be our last homework blog for this year! I would like to thank everyone for their hard work and for the many homework items I have seen where the effort made by primary seven pupils has been clear. I wish everyone a safe and wonderful Christmas together and look forward to our first homework blog after New Year.

Mrs Park

On Monday 14th of December at 1pm, primary 7 will have the chance to take part in a Christmas party .

You can contribute by bringing :

1 2ltr bottle of juice
1 large bag of sweets or funsizes
1 large bag or a multi-pack of crisps
1 packet of bought cakes

By Abbie & Katie

Today we were applying the problem solving skills we previously learned to a new problem. We needed to remember to write our conclusion to show what we had worked out!

Today we were learning how to write a Haiku poem. Each poem only has 3 lines but you need to make sure it has the right number of syllables. Line 1 should have 5 syllables, line 2 should have 7 syllables and line 3 should have 5 syllables. Count ours to make sure they are correct:

We celebrated St Andrew’s Day by making our own origami Loch Ness monsters, some parts were very tricky!

Numeracy

We have been developing our understanding of the cost of items that we buy and profit and loss. To help us do this we have calculated the overall cost for our Jelly Bean Reindeer that we made for the Christmas Fayre. We have been able to identify the best value between all of the jelly beans that we priced. We then calculated the profit or loss that was made by selling them.

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Create your own product that you think people would like to buy.
• Calculate the overall cost to make your product then decide on a price to sell it. You should try to make a profit rather than a loss!
• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=Multibuy
• https://www.studyladder.co.uk/games/activity/profit-and-loss-28349?lc_set=

Literacy

Reading: Prediction – We have been revising prediction in our reading. We have been learning to note down some clues that we find in the text to help us make accurate predictions and use them when writing our own.

Writing: Poetry – In class we have been learning about structuring a poem. We created a poem describing ourselves where we had been given an exact structure to follow; this helped us to create our verses.

Spelling: sounds created by ____ed  – We have been identifying the three different sounds that are produced when ed is added to a word. We have been able to identify the ‘t’, ‘ed’ and ‘d’ sounds in our spelling words, for example in stopped (t), needed (ed) and covered (d)

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Can you predict what is going to happen next in a T.V. programme? Everyone make a prediction and see who is the most accurate.
  • Can you use the same structure to write a poem about someone else? You will need to think hard about the things they like ad don’t like! Use this website to help with the structure: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson391/I-am-poem.pdf
  • Using an article you have in the house – from a magazine, newspaper or online – write down all of the ____ed words you can find then categorise them into their sounds: t, ed and d
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/page3.shtml

IDL

Charles Rennie Mackintosh – Where?

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Identify some of the famous buildings Charles Rennie Mackintosh has worked on. Do you recognise any parts of the designs?
• Can you create a new school badge in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh?

Remember you can use your thinking jotter to record any thoughts or ideas you have when looking at these topics and I would love to see anything you create at home!

Mrs Park

We have been learning to write a poem that includes our thoughts and feelings and shared some of the good qualities that we have seen in each other.

We have been learning how to make our estimates more accurate.

We are learning to use our own words when paraphrasing though it can be tricky sometimes!

This morning we learned about the different sounds that ‘ed’ makes when added to a word. We were able to identify three different sounds: t, d and ed.