Eamon

Eamon confidently made this 3D polyhedron.  He was able to identify how many faces and edges his shape has.  He is learning new language of geometry and to count how many vertices (corners) and angles his shape has.  

"The first rectangle is 10 stickers and each consecutive one is 8.  There are 11 groups, 5x8 =40 and 5x8 =40 plus the first group of 10.. the answer is 90.  Eamon initially told me to work out the stickers he would start with 10 and then add 8 each time, but my frown led him to try something else.  He found this pattern easy to devise.

Eamon 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 identified the 5 minute intervals in between numbers.  He plotted his time correctly, with the hands in the right location.  He is able to solve time related problems and demonstrated his thinking by using a number line.  

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.

Eamon enjoyed this geometrical learning.  As you can see he was able to make an effective symmetrical pattern that reflects both ways.  His tessellating pattern was one he designed himself and he was able to successfully tessellate his dog design.  Great work Eamon!

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 Eamon's speech that he presented in July 2016