Angle

We been looking again at the pattern blocks and the dodecagons we made (here and here), this time looking the angles on each corner.

Can you say what all the angles are? They're all multiples of 30°.

We made a kind of quick "compass" with angles marked on it:

And we practiced turning angles, and positioning ourselves at particular angles:

For our next step, we used a turtle, a little turtle that we could give instructions to. For a square, it was: Forward 20, left 90, forward 20, left 90...

For a hexagon, it was: Forward 20, left 60, forward 20, left 60...

For a triangle, it was: Forward 20, left 120, forward 20, left 120...

Prints of London Bridge

To go with 2014 calendars we've been making some pictures of London Bridge - by printing and painting.

Miss Whittaker showed us how to do the printing:

Then we added some paint:

Here's a slideshow of the pictures. The printing gave them a bit of randomness, and this makes the pictures all the more interesting:

Here's one of them a little larger:

By Mimi, from London Bridge prints