Understand:
The language and features of different shapes.
Know:
The name and features of different 2d shapes.
Be able to do:
Explore geometric features and describe shapes using vocabulary such as ‘sides’, ‘corners’, ‘edges’ and ‘faces’.
I want to see if the students can tell me what is so special about squares so I posed them this question.
As you can see, this is a class of very clever cookies!
As a way for the students to physically create the shapes we have been investigating, I gave them some marshmallows, toothpicks, matchsticks (without the heads of course!) and BBQ skewers. We agreed that the marshmallows represented the vertices and the sticks represented the sides.
A house made from a triangle, square and hexagon
The students did a very good job of demonstrating their understandings of the features of the shapes through their constructions. AND they all showed incredible restraint by not eating the marshmallows. What a great class!
When they had finished making a square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon and hexagon, they got onto their iPads and started making patterns and shapes using geoboard on their ipad. There are some very creative students in my class.
A space inspired scene made from shapes
Today I learnt that a square is a type of rectangle.
– Mr V.
Today I learnt how to make squares and triangles out of marshmallows.
– Miss K.
This week I learnt what a pentagon is. (It’s a house shape – it has 5 vertices and 5 sides)
– Mr A.
This week I learnt about 2D shapes.
– Miss A
I can’t wait to start investigating 3D shapes next week.
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