{"id":43644,"date":"2010-09-23T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mast.thomasjpitts.co.uk\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-09-23T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T08:14:11","slug":"shape-space-activities-year-6-outcomes-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/23\/shape-space-activities-year-6-outcomes-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape &#038; Space Activities &#8211; Year 6 outcomes, day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not entirely happy with the way yesterday went. For a start, we didn&#8217;t manage to fit in everything I had originally expected, which stops me from trying out all three activities with the small group as planned. Also, the group had grown by two to thirteen, making it a little on the large side to do much meaningful investigative work with the string.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positives<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They all enjoyed a slightly different way of working.<\/li>\n<li>They all appeared to be engaged throughout both activities.<\/li>\n<li>They all gave a range of input into discussions &#8211; the outdoor environment, while far from perfect at my school &#8211; encouraged a freer feel.<\/li>\n<li>It flew by. The fifty minutes scheduled for a Wednesday <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Numeracy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Numeracy\">numeracy<\/a> lesson honestly only felt like fifteen minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Negatives or interesting outcomes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My highest of high flyers really struggled with the secret <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Construction\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Construction\">construction<\/a> &#8211; more on that later.<\/li>\n<li>A feeling that more should have got done &#8211; did everyone make progress in that lesson? It&#8217;s hard to tell. Maybe my pacing was off.<\/li>\n<li>The larger group number made it difficult to get the most from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Outdoor activity\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outdoor_activity\">outdoor activity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My fabulous mathematician, the sort of child anyone would want in their lesson as a human calculator, confirmed my long help suspicions &#8211; that his <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mathematics\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematics\">mathematical<\/a> talent lays mainly with number and most other aspects of the subject are weaker for him.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in the opening task, the secret construction, he failed to notice that the colours his partner was using were the backs of the magnetic pieces, therefore all black. I&#8217;ve recreated the shape they had to make and the outcome he instructed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DSC00310.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31 aligncenter\" title=\"Secret Construction\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DSC00310.jpg?resize=300%2C204&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He used all the correct pieces, just back to front. Also, when discussing the shapes made with string, he was adamant that that a turn between two sides would be around 70\u00b0 when it was an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Angle\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angle\">obtuse angle<\/a> &#8211; something we had been discussing only he day before.<\/p>\n<p>A mixed one this so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am developing these ideas further today with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Year Six\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Year_Six\">Year 6<\/a> and have a session planned to work with some Year 3 children\u00a0next week along similar lines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=1165\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not entirely happy with the way yesterday went. For a start, we didn&#8217;t manage to fit in everything I had originally expected, which stops me from trying out all three activities with the small group as planned. Also, the group had grown by two to thirteen, making it a little on the large side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4439,4440],"tags":[774,1015,1018,3709,1653,4523,1909,1910,2523,4589,4596],"class_list":["post-43644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","category-study-block-1","tag-construction","tag-education","tag-educators","tag-geometry","tag-k-through-12","tag-lesson-plans","tag-math","tag-mathematics","tag-recreation","tag-shape-space","tag-study-block-1-2","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-blW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}