Connecting our UOI and math together, today we introduced the following terms: Decade Century Millenium The children had a go at writing what they thought these words meant. We had some interesting responses and there were some good connections with other words. Some children thought it meant something is rotten because it sounded like the word decayed. Another child thought it meant 10 years because a decagon is a 10-sided shape. The class worked in pairs to research the words and they used dictionaries and the internet. They fed back what they had learnt and the general consensus was the following: Below are some photos of our completed timeline! Can you see some of the connections that the class made to the inventions and these new words on their pink post-it notes? Some of the students were surprised by the dates of some inventions and they wrote those down onto the orange post-it notes.
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