Thursday 21th May 2020

MATHS Visualising 3D shapes presented in 2D.

Today we will be trying imagine 3D shapes that we see represented on paper. These shapes are all made up of smaller cubes. It can be difficult to see at first, but look at the images below. You will be working with images of shapes like those on the left, but you need to imagine them like those on the right. The B questions ask you count the number of cubes that each shape is made of. If you do C, give the number of cubes each shape is made of, and how many more would be needed to make the smallest cuboid you can. This gets trickier after question 9 because then you will need to fill in more than one layer. Look: Here the cuboid will need to be two cubes high, 4 cubes long and 4 cubes wide.

Thursday 21th May 2020

Choose whether to do B (count the cubes) or C (count the cubes and count the cubes needed to complete a cuboid).

Thursday 21th May 2020

ENGLISH Idioms

Firstly, watch this retelling of the Roman foundation myth. https://safeYouTube.net/w/TcpG After saying the other week that there was a John Finnemore sketch for every occasion, I thought we could listen to one today about the myth of the founding of Rome. One of the main jokes in the sketch is about idioms and how many of them involve Rome, so we should make sure that we understand what idioms are and what these ones mean before we listen to it. Idioms are phrases or expressions that talk about one thing as a short cut to explaining another – a little bit like a metaphor – but an idiom often relies on a common understanding with the listener. If I say, “Fingers crossed!” I don’t mean anything about fingers. I am really saying “I hope we will be lucky!” and you know that because you know that crossing fingers is something we might do when we are hoping for good luck. Here are some idioms about Rome: Rome wasn’t built in a day - people say this to mean that it takes a lot of time and effort to achieve something important, just like building the mighty empire of Rome took many centuries. When in Rome (do as the Romans do) – means you should follow the behaviour and customs of local people when you are a visitor. It is so well understood that people usually only say the first part – ‘When in Rome…’ All roads lead to Rome – means that there can be many ways to achieve the same goal. The Romans were famous for building roads, and the major roads of the Roman Empire would meet at Rome. To fiddle while Rome burns – means to do something unimportant while there are very pressing and important matters that need to be dealt with. It refers to

Thursday 21th May 2020

Emperor Nero who is supposed to have played music on his violin or lyre while a great fire burned Rome in 64 AD. Now, purely for your amusement, you can listen to the sketch on the school website. Your task today is to match the correct idiom to the meaning in the table below. Some will be familiar to you. Have a think about the others and check your ideas with a grown-up. Idiom Meaning

Once in a blue moon Something happens rarely

Become confident in a situation

In trouble

A task that is easy

Stop yourself from talking

Not want to make a decision

Make a bad situation worse

Very common or easy to get

Difficult to understand

Avoiding talking about the main topic

Having to start again

Something that is no longer important

A dime a dozen • Piece of Cake • Sit on the fence • Once in a blue moon • Water under the bridge • Add insult to injury • Find your feet • All Greek to me • In hot water • Back to the drawing board • Bite your tongue • Beating around the bush

Thursday 21th May 2020

Computing Scratch: Improving our Number Guessing Game

This week we will be trying to improve our random number guessing game with some appropriate feedback and perhaps a limit on the number of guesses. Watch the video on the website and then have a go yourself here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted