Hello all.
I hope you had a great day today and did loads of enjoyable things together. Thank you to everyone who sent in bits and pieces sharing what you are doing.
For those of you who are accessing this website regularly and using it to inform your daily activities, today could be about planning your machine. tool, device or contraption. If you can’t think of an idea for a machine to build, design and build me a machine for getting stones out of soil.
You might not be able to make a fully working machine, but you can build a model of it to see if it would work, just like every great inventor and engineer throughout history. (Look up Isambard Kingdom Brunel, here is a bitesize article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd4dy9q/articles/znj32sg
Think about what your machine does, what parts will it have, how will those parts move? Will they slide? turn? open and close? Does it need cogs, belts, axles, pivots, chains, pulleys or levers?
Think about what you are going to use to build your model. Are you going to use some construction kit, like Lego, knex etc? Are you going to build your model from cardboard, wood, plastic? If so, how are you going to cut and join your materials?
If you plan and sketch out your model today, and have a think about what you need and how it will go together, you will be ready to start building tomorrow!
This weeks maths focus is here. 2016 sample assessment maths reasoning instructions and the picture of the working wall is here to remind yourselves what you can do.
Keep reading. I am updating BugClub with new books for anyone who finishes what they have already been allocated.
Take care, stay safe and do things which make you happy!
All the best
Mr F.