Heera's Monday Challenge
Wow! What a fantastic challenge Heera. I can see that this has really helped you to extend your understanding of 3D shapes.

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Wow! What a fantastic challenge Heera. I can see that this has really helped you to extend your understanding of 3D shapes.

Sai- what a fantastic piece of engineering.

What a fantastic piece of narrative Sai.

Wow! Sai, we love the way you have approached this problem in a clear and systematic way.

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?
What 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.

Write 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?
Heera, we love the water wheel you created.

Well done Heera, we love this writing.

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?
Wow! 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.

Alana, we love the way that you have included a range of different sentece types to interest the reader.
Also, the way you included well punctuated, direct speech really added to your work.
