Thinking starters

Apr 202020
 

These are great for creative thinking.  Use them to get your brain going in the morning or when you need to wake up your brain…

Make sure you use the phrases given.

These are from the Thinking Classroom website, provided free at this time.  There are examples and teacher notes for  each of the thinking starters to show how they could work.

T5W1 Maths challenge

Apr 202020
 

Chris still has a pile of Easter eggs left.

  • He can put the eggs exactly into piles of 7.
  • If he puts them in piles of 3, 4, 5 or 6, he has one left over.
  • What is the smallest number of eggs that Chris could have?
  • * What is the next smallest number of eggs that Chris could have?
  • ** What is the next, next smallest number of eggs that Chris could have?

Welcome to Term 5!

Apr 202020
 

I hope everyone is well and had a break over Easter.  Thank you for everyone who had a go at some of the challenges on here before Easter.  This term, I will try to put on some more challenges, but I will also put some lessons for each year group.

I hope you enjoy your home learning this term.  Keep going.

Top tps:

  • Tick things off your list as you do them,
  • Short sessions
  • Brain breaks in between – get up, exercise
  • Drink water.

Quick links:

Day 10 challenge – Happy News!

Apr 032020
 
  1. Have a read through this article:
    1. Happy Newspaper Activity Pack
  2. Make your own example of one of these on j2e5 or JIT5
    1. a “happy story or fact”
    2. a “thank you for the happy times” certificate or “thank you note” complete with colourful border
    3. a simple line drawing “happy message”
    4. a “teeny tiny little things I appreciated today” poster
    5. a “happy colouring page”

Day 9 challenge – vase of flowers

Apr 022020
 
  • Ope this LOGO file: Vase of flowers
  • I have already set up procedures for:
    • Flower – change the number and colours – 1=large, 2=medium, 3=small
    • Stalk – change the number for different sized stalks
    • Vase – change the number to change the size
  • Put in pu setxy 100 100 pd  to place objects.
  • Tinker with the code at the bottom (leave the procedures alone) to make a pretty vase of flowers.

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