P7 Suggested Home Learning w/c 8th June 2020

Literacy: Spelling

• If the weather is nice, try spelling activities outside. What new spelling activities can you think of?

• Play the ‘Spell Well’ game with a friend on-line. (optional): Can you find spell all your words backwards in under 40 seconds? Grammar – Homographs and Heteronyms – Please read carefully! ☺ Homographs are words that share the same spelling but have different meaning. Homographs that look the same but sound different are called heteronyms. e.g. tear – how would you say this word? It can be pronounced in one of two ways, depending on which word is being used. tear -as in ‘tears of joy’ or as in to rip something ‘tear’. How would you say the word ‘record’? The meaning of this word can depend on how the word is said. If it is record (stressing the first syllable), it is a noun, meaning the best achievement. If it is record (stressing the second syllable), it is a verb, meaning to write down or tape.

Your spelling words this week are:

astonishment ailment treatment parliament disappointment discouragement assortment comment government element

Choose a grammar task from the list below. The spice-ometer indicates the challenge

of the tasks. Go on, try the FIERY one!

Complete the extension heteronym grammar sheet. Use each heteronym in a

sentence to show its meaning. The pronunciation guide in each pair of leaves should

tell you which word to use. If you want to check the meaning before you write, look

the word up in a dictionary. Enjoy colouring the sheet for some mindfulness! ☺

Write ten sentences using containing heteronyms, showing that you know which

word to use.

Can you think of twelve words where the meaning changes depending which syllable

you stress? Here is one to start you off…invalid / invalid

Can you think of ten more examples of heteronyms? Here are a few to start you off…

row, read…

Really good video that explains heteronyms here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8UcOn1misI

Numeracy: Types of Numbers: prime numbers

We are learning more about factors this week. Read this first! Complete the work below.

If you haven’t been on already, spend some time playing on Times Table Rock Stars.

IDL / HWB Recently, America has seen huge riots following the death of George Floyd,

46. He died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis,

Minnesota.

Watch this clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9sw4LbYLcQ

Martin Luther King Jr clearly expresses here, in 1967, the issues which we still face today. What are

your thoughts on this? How do you feel? Jot your ideas down …

Take it all in and truly absorb the information and situation that is around you.

Remember, George Floyd may have been thousands of miles away. But unfortunately, racism is all

around us - here in the UK as well.

Take a stand. Change begins with you; these institutions are made up of people. Us. We are the

institutions.

This is everybody’s problem; reach out to those who you think are marginalised. Call out racism.

Sign petitions. Write to leaders. Donate.

Above all else: TALK ABOUT IT. Take that piece of paper that you have been collating your

thoughts on and share your own views and responses with someone today.

https://blacklivesmatter.com/ - explains exactly what the Black Lives Matter movement is and how

everyone is involved.

IDL / HWB/SCIENCE

Shelters

How many different types of shelters can you think of?

Choose two different types of

shelters and sketch them.

Label each different part and

what it is made from and where

the joins are.

What is the shelter designed for

and who would use it?

Which is more study?

How are they similar?

How are they different?

Who needs shelter?

Is a shelter the same as a house?

Have a look here at https://www.shelterbox.org/ This is a charity who provide emergency shelter and

tools for families robbed of their homes by natural disasters.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK P7! CHATTY TUESDAY IS ON TEAMS AT 1.45P.M – THIS WEEK WE’RE HAVING

A LOGO QUIZ ON KAHOOT - SEE YOU THERE! ☺

P7 Suggested Home Learning WB 25th May 2020 and WB 1st June 2020

Literacy: Spelling

Your spelling words this week are:

bibliography ceiling energy library vaccine proposition unanimous caught women actually

• What strategies can you think of to ensure you spell these words correctly?

• Dictionary races – how quickly can you find these words in a dictionary?

• Use at least three different spelling strategies to practise these words. Challenge (optional): Can you find words within words by rearranging the letters? e.g in the word ‘energy’ you can make the words grey and rye. Writing – bibliographies A bibliography is a list of resources that you have used in your P7 Personal Project. When you include information from either books, magazines, newspapers, videos, journals or the Internet, you need to list them at the end of your report in alphabetical order. Complete the bibliography template using some of the sources you have looked at so far for your project. Challenges (optional):

• What is an Almanac?

• What famous time

travel film features a

sports almanac?

• Write a story about

time travel.

For more information on bibliographies a look at this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0OXrRkkrQ

Numeracy: Types of Numbers: multiples

We are continuing to learn about multiples this week. Complete the work below.

Challenges (optional):

• What is a Prime number? A number that is not a prime number is called a ___________ number.

• Who was Eratosthenes?

• Practise all your times tables so that you are getting quicker with your recall. This is really important

now.

Please spend some time

exploring and playing on

Times Table Rock Stars.

More information is on

the school app and below.

Leavers Song – deadline Friday 29th May P7 Leavers’ Song Hello P7s! I hope you are all well and keeping safe. Your P7 teachers and I thought that it was a shame that you weren’t able to have your Leavers’ ceremonies anymore and we wanted to do something virtually that could bring us all together before you start at High School! The Plan: We would like to create a video of P7s from across the cluster performing your Leavers’ song. What I would like you to do:

1. We are going to perform “A Sky Full of Stars” by Coldplay. I have attached a video with the lyrics – listen to this lots over the next few days so you get to know it and can learn the song. Don’t worry about learning it off by heart… you can always use the lyrics when you record yourself.

2. When you are ready – record yourself! You’ll need two devices for this… one to film you (you may want someone to help you with this!) and one to play the backing track which is also attached. The key thing here is to ensure the backing track is playing through headphones in your ears… so you can hear the music and keep in time but so the video only records you singing.

3. If you are feeling adventurous… I have also attached a video with Makaton signing. Feel free to add some signs in if you can! It would be really nice if you could wear your school jumper/t-shirt/tie so we can see what Primary School you are coming from.

There are lots and lots of P7s across the Cluster so it is going to take me a wee bit of time to put the final video together. I would really appreciate if the videos could be uploaded by parents/carers to my Google Drive by Friday 29th May. Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10QwEtWJOh1QfWecUuOpeB4EqfLsNoygg?usp=sha ring Have fun and I look forward to seeing you soon at Larbert High School. J Miss Murdoch Acting PT Expressive Arts (Cluster & S1)

P7 Suggested Home Learning w/c 18th May 2020

Literacy: Spelling Your spelling words this week are: wretched unfortunately surely guard column conscious necessary permanent exaggerated environment These words are commonly misspelled words.

• What strategies can you think of to ensure you spell these words correctly?

• What are the ‘tricky’ bits in the words?

• Look these words up in a dictionary to ensure you understand what they mean. This is vital.

• Use at least three different spelling strategies to practise these words. Challenge (optional): Can you find the antonyms for these words?

Grammar – tone and register in reports As you are busy working on your personal projects, I thought it would be useful to focus on tone and register when writing. This simply means ‘how’ something is written and ‘how’ it sounds when read. As you are writing a report, your tone should be more ‘formal’.

BBC Bitesize has a very good online lesson here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrdsy9q including more explanation and quizzes. Please look at this before completing the task below. Complete the table with the appropriate formal or informal word. The meaning of the word should remain the same.

Challenge (optional): We often hear quite informal expressions used in everyday speech, on

television, online or on the radio. Can you give examples of this? How would you change these

expressions to make them more formal?

Formal Informal

spectacles

beverage

pleased

gentleman

enquire ask

brilliant great

acquaintance friends

small

The way you speak or write

will depend upon who you

are speaking to or writing

for - your audience.

Numeracy:

Types of Numbers: multiples

Complete the work below. It builds on your times table knowledge and ‘seeing’ multiples that are common in different times tables. 0 is always a multiple (ignore it for now).

1. Which multiples are ‘common’ in the 3 and 4 times tables? 2. What is the lowest number that is a multiple of both the 3 and 4 times table? This is called the ‘lowest common multiple’ of 3 and 4 (the l.c.m) Challenge (optional):

• List the first ten multiples of 5. OR Practise your times tables outdoors in a creative

• List the first 20 multiples of 2. way.

• What is the l.c.m of 5 and 2?

SumDog Falkirk School Competition is on! We need everyone taking part to be in with a chance of being the number 1 class in Falkirk. We can do it! Please spend at least 20 minutes a day on maths on SumDog.

Health and Wellbeing / IDL Art - This week you will study the characteristics of Impressionist art and produce your own masterpiece. Throughout history there have been a number of arts ‘eras’; from the prehistoric cave paintings through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to Modern Art. Within each era, many masterpieces have been produced, with the common factors of colour, texture and form linking them. Study several paintings by Monet, Degas and Renoir by exploring the links below. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/what-is/impressionism https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/learn-about-art/guide-to-impressionism What subjects or scenes did they like to paint? Research and record details of the techniques of Impressionist art (did they sketch, describe their use of colour, use of light and brush strokes).

Monet

Degas

Renoir

Choose a subject or scene for your own masterpiece. Share your finished art piece on twitter @MrsEvansTeach.

HWB Now that we are free to exercise more than once a day outside the home, keep a diary of the exercise you do for a week and send tweets to @MrsEvansTeach If you have a fitness tracker you could also keep a note of steps taken, distance travelled and heart rate before and after exercise. Or Keep a note of how you feel doing different exercise, your preferred activity and where you go / what you see. You could include photos and drawings.

P7 Suggested Home Learning w/c 11th May 2020

Literacy:

• Spelling – Choose 10 words from the list provided. Use each word in an up-levelled sentence, showing that you know the meaning of the word. Have a test at the end of the week.

• Reading (questioning skill) – Read the next chapter in your reading book and make a list of 10 ‘right there’ questions. (see reading skill ‘questioning’ card and reading skills printout to help you). More books have been issued on BugClub.

I have also set two literacy challenges on SumDog – focussing on Grammar and Spelling. These challenges finish on the 15th May. Who will be number 1? ☺ Numeracy:

• Subtraction – Create your own subtraction word problems (4-6) for others to solve. You can give these problems to people in your family or swap with others in the class using the ‘collaboration’ page on notebook.

• Maths game – Visit https://nrich.maths.org/7337 to see the game being played. You need a partner, a 1-6 dice and a grid like this;

Take turns to throw the dice and draw that number of dots in one of the boxes on the grid. Put all of your dots in one of the boxes. You can't split them up and you can't have more than six dots in a box.

When a box is full, you could put a tick in the corner like this:

Keep going until there are three ticks in a row or column or diagonal. The winner is the person who puts the last tick. Now, can you change the game to make your own version?

Health and Wellbeing / IDL

• Try a food you have never tasted before. Leave a review on twitter for me @MrsEvansTeach ☺ I hope you like it!

• Write a short paragraph about yourself and your family in Spanish or French (8-10) sentences. You could focus on things like: Who is in your family, the number of brothers / sisters you have, names and ages of family members and their descriptions (hair and eye colour). Talk about hobbies and likes and dislikes. If you can, record yourself and upload to your IDL page on teams or on twitter! Your languages teachers at LHS will be very impressed!

School Closure Week 4 P7 Suggested Home Learning

Literacy:

• Reading- Good readers can explain the purpose and target audience of texts they read. Complete the grid and follow up writing activities on the reading comprehension worksheet in your pack.

• Grammar – At the start of P7 we looked at parts of speech and labelled the legs

of the octopus with each of them. Can you remember what a preposition is?

Scan the QR code for a reminder and then complete the preposition worksheet(which is also in

your pack).

What are the other parts of speech?

Give examples of them in a sentence.

e.g. The yellow submarine dived gracefully under the waves and disappeared. Yellow = adjective submarine =noun dived = verb gracefully=adverb under=preposition the waves = noun

and =connective disappeared= verb

Numeracy:

• Statistics – Name at least 8 ways data can be displayed (e.g. one way is a bar graph). Conduct your own data investigation, complete with relevant charts and details of averages (e.g. I might conduct research into how many times I get a message on my phone or how many times I hear someone says the word ‘news’).

• Mathematical Thinking – Sweets in A Box - How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer? Can you arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same colour are next to each other in any direction? More info/help available here - https://nrich.maths.org/84

Health and Wellbeing / IDL

• Design your own science activity with a focus on ‘energy’. Tweet your learning to @MrsEvansTeach and share on Teams.

• Draw a picture of your real or imaginary family tree – write all of the family details in French or Spanish or both! Use linguascope and language jotters to help you.

School Closure Week 3 WB 27th April 2020 P7 Suggested Home Learning Tasks

Literacy:

• Spelling – Choose another 10 words from the list provided. Use each word in an up-levelled sentence, showing that you know the meaning of the word. Have a test at the end of the week.

• Grammar /Writing – Scan the QR code to learn about fronted adverbials. In your pack there is cut and stick

adverbial activity. Match the adverbials to the correct sentence endings. A fronted adverbial help sheet is also

in your pack.

Numeracy:

• Maths Games – Play SumDog – there are STILL lots of new games you’ve never played! I will play too!

• Mathematical Thinking – There are three dice, each of them with faces labelled from 1 to 6. When the dice are rolled they can be combined in six different ways to make a number less than 10 with two decimal places. For example, if I roll a 2, a 3 and a 6, I can combine them to make 2.36, 2.63, 3.26, 3.62, 6.23 or 6.32. Now round each of these numbers to the nearest whole number: 2.36 rounds to 2, 2.63 rounds to 3, 3.26 rounds to 3, 3.62 rounds to 4, 6.23 rounds to 6 and 6.32 rounds to 6. Repeat for other rolls of the dice. Can each of the six numbers round to the same whole number? Can each of the six numbers round to a different whole number?

Health and Wellbeing / IDL

• Create a bird feeder or insect hotel to place in your garden or a local park.

• Check out the online STEM video lessons at Nerding.org (my friend Niecy presents them!) Look at the ‘at home lessons’ Lesson 12 is all about a robotic hand! Try a few of these.

Optional tasks will be posted each day on twitter. Be kind to yourself. Send me a tweet or leave a message

on teams. Let me know you are all doing.

School Closure Week WB 20 April 2020

P7 Suggested Home Learning

Literacy:

• Reading (clarifying skill) – Read the next chapter in your reading book and make a make a note of all of the words / parts of the story you are not of. (see reading skill ‘clarifying’ card to help you). Use a dictionary / ask someone to help / re-read the tricky parts to help you understand the story.

• Listening & Talking – Design your own game activity to practise the listening skill of ‘’sitting still”. Try to make it as fun as possible and try it with your family.

Numeracy:

• Percentages – Set up a shop with items from your house and create a price list for items. Have some sales on - e.g 20% off. If I came to your shop with £350 could I buy one of everything? Would I get change? Do I need more money to buy one of everything?

• Mathematical Thinking – Who is Fibonacci? Why was he important in the history of maths? Create a poster demonstrating your knowledge of this.

Health and Wellbeing / IDL

• Create a treasure trail, writing clues for someone to follow around the house / garden.

• Listen to some classical music (on Classic FM / Spotify / youtube etc) and draw what you ‘see’ in your mind as you listen to the music.

School Closure P7 Suggested Home Learning – WB 23/03/2020

Literacy:

• Spelling – Choose 10 words from the list provided. Find the definition for each word (using either a hard copy/on-line dictionary). You could get someone at home to test you at the end of the week.

• Reading (summarising skill) – Read the next chapter in your reading book and make a summary of the chapter using a maximum of 7 sentences (see reading skill ‘summarising’ card to help you).

• Grammar – complete the worksheet on the homophones ‘their, they’re and there’ and make

up a poster to remind you when to use each one. Scan the QR code to learn more about

homophones.

• Listening & Talking – Design your own game activity to practise the listening skill of ‘listening to all the words’. Try to make it as fun as possible and try it with your family.

• Free Writing – Choose a genre to write in, e.g. comic strip, newspaper article, imaginative. Write about your chosen topic for 30 minutes. You should then illustrate your story. Be sure to share this with a family member!

Numeracy:

• Multiplication – Play ‘Hit the Button’ https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

• Angles – How many different types of triangles can you make on a circular peg board that has nine pegs? (see sheet provided for working out).

• Statistics – Complete the maths worksheet on averages. Please read the explanation part very carefully. Scan the QR code for more info on averages (mean / median/mode).

• Percentages – Solve the questions on the percentages sheet (which will be one of 3 answers listed). Then find and colour the corresponding section of the Keith Haring (artist) image.

• Maths Game – Play ‘Race to the Moon’ (game provided). Health and Wellbeing / IDL

• Watch Newsround every day to keep up with current events around the world.

• Choose one of the STEM activity cards to complete this week – tweet a picture of your finished result to @MrsEvansTeach

• Try a 20 minute Joe Wicks work out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGEdzRzSbw) or make up your own exercise routine at home for others to try.

• Give the adults a night off and cook one of the meals you have made this year at ‘Let’s Cook’.

• Pick a famous artist of your choice and replicate one of their famous works. You can use any media you want (pencil, coloured pencils, paint, collage etc.)

• Log into linguascope (login – larbmodlan password – lhslangs) Beginner / Spanish and try some of the ‘mi familia y yo’ activities, focussing on ‘los miembros de la familia’.

• Complete one of the activities from ‘The Fox Girl and White Gazelle’ pack.

• Make up your own powerpoint maze (as previously taught by Mrs. Wilson).

• Start your personal project – begin with research – see attached information sheet.

• Make a list of different emotion words. Can you think of 150 or more? ☺