Tuesday Challenge: 14th July
Published 13/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon
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Read MoreHeera's Monday Challenge
Published 13/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonWow! What a fantastic challenge Heera. I can see that this has really helped you to extend your understanding of 3D shapes.
Read MoreSai's Wednesday Challenge
Published 13/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonSai- what a fantastic piece of engineering.
Read MoreSai's Wonderful Writing
Published 13/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonWhat a fantastic piece of narrative Sai.
Read MoreSai's Friday Challenge
Published 13/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonWow! Sai, we love the way you have approached this problem in a clear and systematic way.
Read MoreMonday Challenge: 13th July
Published 13/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonSkeleton Shapes
Skeleton shapes are made with balls of modelling clay and straws.
This shows a cube and a skeleton cube:
How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make the cube?
Here are some piles of modelling clay balls and straws:
Look at the shapes below and decide which piles are needed to make a skeleton of each shape.
Extension: Can you make a skeleton shape out of modelling clay and straws?
Read MoreHeera's Geometric Tile Design
Published 10/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonWhat a great design. We love the way that you have only used a few really simple geometric shapes. However, when you place 6 tiles next to each other it looks really incredible.
Read MoreFriday Challenge: 10th July
Published 09/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonWrite each of these digits on a piece of paper and cut them out.
Draw a place value grid that looks like this:
Place each digit card into a position on the place value grid to create a 3-digit number. e.g. 694
If you use all the digit cards, what is the smallest number you can make?
If you use all the digit cards, what is the largest number you can make?
Can you use a systematic method for working out ALL the possible 3- digit numbers you can make?
Can you arrange them from smallest to largest?
EXTENSION: What happens if you add another digit card- a 5 for example. Does this mean you can make more different 3-digit numbers?
Read MoreHeera's Water Wheel
Published 09/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonHeera, we love the water wheel you created.
Read MoreHeera's Fantastic Writing
Published 08/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonWell done Heera, we love this writing.
Read MoreThursday Challenge: July 9th
Published 08/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonPhilosophy for Children (P4C)
What are more useful, letters or numbers?
Would it be a good thing if animals could talk?
What is braver- being scared of something and then doing it anyway or not being scared in the first place?
Read MoreJessica's Wonderful Writing!
Published 08/07/20, by Charlie MackinnonWow! Jessica, we love the range of different types of sentence you used. Also, the way you included well punctuated, direct speech was amazing.
It sounded just like something Roald Dahl would write.
