Callum

Callum confidently stated that there are 9 groups of 3 in his pattern, plus the first 4.  He easily worked out 9x3 first and added the 4.  He found this pattern easy to devise.

Callum is able to read most analogue and digital times.  He understands 24 hour time, including am and pm within this.  He was able to draw a clock and successfully knows there is a 5 minute interval in between numbers.  He plotted his time correctly, with the hands in the right location.  He is able to solve some time related problems but will need to continue to be exposed to this type of questioning. 

Eamon, Callum, Matt and Levi worked extremely well together to work out what food they have in their fridges.  Firstly they made a strip graph and then made statements about this graph.  They made a connection to fractions (because there was 4 in their group) and made statements like "3/4 people in the group like carrots".  After that they measured their strip graph into a circle and transformed this into a pie graph.  The size of the strips (i.e. carrots) helped them to measure their slice of pie.  They made more statements about their information off the pie graph and found that they were learning and seeing new things.  Some of their statements required a tad more elaboration, but they managed to add detail once told.  To finish they made a computer graph.  This group worked out how to change the numbers on the axis of their computer graph because they weren't happy with it showing decimals (which it done by default), particularly because there was no decimal data.

Callum has a good knowledge of geometry.  He confidently made this 3D shape and calculated how many faces, edges and vertices (corners) his shape has.  He learnt how to count the angles on his shape.

Callum really enjoyed creating his reflective symmetrical pattern (bottom) and he found this very easy.  It was more difficult for Callum to make his tessellating cat pattern (top) as he found it challenging to make the template.  Once he understood how to do it he easily went away and created his pattern.

Callum and Eamon made this 3D geometrical city model.  They firstly made a 2D plan.  The were able to build a range of different 3D shapes (cylinders, pyramids, rectangular prisms etc) and include some simple tessellation, symmetry and shop signage.  They worked extremely well together with very little teacher input.  Well done boys.

Eamon and Callum made this car safety power-point together.  They researched their topic and worked well together to present their research to the class.  They are becoming better at speaking in front of an audience.  Well done boys... 

Here is Callum's speech about Minecraft.  Well done Callum.