Idioms

Idioms are phrases that have a different meaning to the actual words in the phrase. For example, if something is described as “a piece of cake”, it is an idiom. It means that something is really easy, it doesn’t actually have anything at all to do with cake.

In class we discussed the literal and the inferred meaning of lots of idioms.

• The literal meaning is when you imagine the words in the idiom as being the real meaning.
• The inferred meaning is what the phrase actually means when used in conversation.

Example: To “spill the beans”.

You might imagine someone tipping over a bowl of beans BUT this idiom really means that you have revealed some secret information.

Learning about idioms is important because authors often use idioms in books, so we need to understand them in order to understand what we read. 

This week, each student is to chose an idiom they like and type it in the comments below. I'll create a Presentation or Glogster of the collection you come up with. Lets challenges ourselves and come up with 20 different idioms.

Problem solving- Use any of the mental maths strategies to solve these problems.

Genius hour in year 4!!

We are currently attempting our first ever version of Genius Hour! Genius Hour is based upon Google’s 20% policy. This policy says that with 20% of your time, you can work on whatever project you would like as long as it advances the company in some way. Both Post-It notes and Gmail were created during this time! So the question arose, if such amazing things were made during this 20% time at these companies, just what could students come up with if given a chance to work on a project that interested them? Instead of dedicating 20% of our time each week though, or instead of just simply using an hour of time (hence the name Genius Hour), we modified the idea slightly. We instead are taking 2 hours a week for term 3 to create an objective, come up with a plan, and then get to creating. We are looking forward to seeing the final results from this project.