To kick off a new project, we spent some time thinking about shapes. We started math with an open ended problem: "I drew a shape that has 4 sides. Draw as many shapes as this could be." Here are a few of the shapes we came up with.After, we read a book called "Shapes in the Kitchen" as a way to recognize shapes in our environment. We then took this idea of finding shapes in our space and explored our classroom to find as many different real life examples of 2D shapes such as triangles, rectangles, ovals, and squares. The purpose of this activity was to try to recognize how shapes make up many of the objects in our environment.
Tonight with your family, explore your kitchen, bedroom, or any other space in your house to see if you can find different shapes. Questions to ask:
- How would this object change if we changed the shape?
- Why do you think they chose to use this shape?
- How many edges, corners?
- How does this triangle/square/rectangle differ from the last one we found?
If you have time, here is a fun game that helps students review the attributes of 2D shapes Shapes Game.
Reminders:
- Curriculum Night on Thursday
- Envelopes due ASAP!! (Thank you)
