Count the big squares, then the tall bars, then the loose ones.
Name
Ten ones make a bar. Ten bars make a square.
hundreds
tens
ones
so it is
hundreds
tens
ones
so it is
hundreds
tens
ones
so it is
hundreds
tens
ones
so it is
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Break the Number Up
No pictures. Read the number and say what it is made of.
Name
In 508 the 0 means no tens. Write it; it holds the 8 in the ones place.
is
hundreds
tens
ones
is
hundreds
tens
ones
is
hundreds
tens
ones
is
hundreds
tens
ones
is
hundreds
tens
ones
is
hundreds
tens
ones
is
hundreds
tens
ones
ar
When an r Bosses the Vowel
An r after a vowel changes its sound. Read each row out loud.
Name
says “ar, like in car”
says “or, like in fork”
says “er”
says “er”
says “er”
er
Three Ways to Spell One Sound
er, ir and ur sound the same. No rule says which — look closely.
Name
Copy each one, then cover it and write it again from memory.
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Solid, Liquid, Gas
The test is not how it feels. It is what happens when you put it in a jar.
Name
Do not go by touch (sand is hard, a towel is wet). Ask: poured into a new container, does it keep its shape or take the container's?
Solid
Shape: keeps its own shape
Space: takes up the same space wherever you put it
for example: a brick, a spoon, an ice cube, you
Liquid
Shape: takes the shape of whatever you pour it into
Space: always takes up the same amount of space
for example: water, milk, honey, petrol
Gas
Shape: spreads out and fills the whole container
Space: takes up as much space as it is given
for example: air, steam, the bubbles in a fizzy drink
Tick one for each.Honey is the one that argues back. It pours so slowly that it looks like it is keeping its shape — but leave it long enough and it will spread out flat and take the shape of the plate. Slow is not the same as solid.
a rock
milk
an ice cube
a wooden spoon
steam from a kettle
the bubbles in lemonade
orange juice
the air in a balloon
honey
a sweater
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Which Is It? Sand
The one the jar test gets wrong.
Name
And now the difficult one: sand
Sand pours. It takes the shape of the bucket you tip it into, just like water does.
So is it a liquid? Look at ONE grain of sand very closely and answer these.
Does one single grain of sand keep its own shape?
So is sand a solid or a liquid? Say why.
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Who Actually Does It?
Tick local or national for each job.
Name
Local — your town or city
A small group of people, usually voted for by the people who live there. They look
after the things you can see from your own street.
National — the whole country
A much bigger group, in the capital city. They make the laws that everybody in the
country has to follow, wherever they live.
fixing a pothole in your street
printing the money
deciding how much money the whole country spends on hospitals
emptying the bins
deciding the speed limit for the whole country
putting up street lights
making a new law about seatbelts
running the libraries and the parks
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Who Would You Tell?
Tick who could fix it. Write what you would ask.
Name
The swing in your local park is broken.
You think the speed limit outside your school should be lower for everyone in the country.
The bins have not been emptied for three weeks.
You think the library should open on Sundays.
Only Two at a Time
Computing · Page 1 of 2
NameDate
DIRECTIONS: Look at two cards at a time. Write the one that comes first.
7
and
3
→ which comes first?
4
and
9
→ which comes first?
6
and
6
→ which comes first?
The same? Either one can go first.
Now six cards. Put them in order, smallest first. Still only two at a time.
5
2
8
1
9
3
How did you do it? Write it so someone else could follow it.
Everybody Does It Differently
Computing · Page 2 of 2
DIRECTIONS: Watch two other people put the same six in order.
Person 1: what did they do?Same as yours? ____________
Person 2: what did they do?Same as yours? ____________
Everyone got it right, different ways. A machine can't "do what seems sensible". It needs exact steps: the next sheet.