Monday, 31 October 2016

Circles (The most important shape?)


Wow! I thought a circle was just a 2D shape.
Watch and learn. 
Remember we work in millimetres, centimetres and metres not feet and inches.
Now I have some questions my self, time to do some thinking and learning.

Sunday, 30 October 2016

Written Conversation



  1. Use one of these pictures. Make speech bubbles for them and write in what you think they might be saying.
  2. For the other picture write a little story based on what you think is happening in the picture and as part of that short story share a conversation that the two people might be having as part of that story.
Here is a link that might help you understand how this punctuation works.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/punctuation-in-direct-speech

Monday, 24 October 2016

Descriptive Writing


Dividing a circle into equal sectors



Another drawing challenge. This one involves a bit of maths and we are then going to use this skill to build cogs to create a class machine.

Multiplying Decimals



A quick bit of research now that we have struggled with a problem and I find out that multiplying decimals is not as hard as we thought.

Monday, 17 October 2016

How to make a Pantograph

Only visual instructions for this task. We will make it with thin card and then when we have sorted out all the problems and get it working successfully we will make it with thicker card.

How to use a Pentograph