Thursday, May 16, 2013

Shapes

Last week in Prep and Standard 1 we started a unit on Shape. We have been learning about two-dimensional shapes. We found lots of shapes in the classroom. We found squares (tiles on the floor), circles (bottle lids), rectangles (books), ovals (the number 0) and triangles (the wooden beams on the roof).

We learnt how to draw the shapes and then spell them.



George using the magnetic letters to spell the word square.
We made posters to hang in the classroom so that we can see the shapes on the wall and practise them every day.


We made some of the shapes with our hands. We had to work together to make the shapes. The easiest shapes to make were the circle and heart. The hardest shape to make was the oval.








Thanks Miss Bicknell from Grahamvale PS for this great idea!
We have started a Shape display. We hang our work on the wall, including the posters we made. We add shapes to it when we find them.

A part of the shape wall. We were given jigsaw puzzles and had to put them together to make shapes. We glued the shapes onto black paper and then put them on the wall.

Drawing and labeling shapes in our Maths books.

Questions:
1. What shapes can you name?
2. How many squares can you find in your classroom?
3. Can you make shapes using your hands? What about your whole body?

2 comments:

  1. Hello Prep and Standard 1 students,
    Your hand shapes look pretty cool.We have lots of different shapes in our room. Our floor in covered in carpet squares, we have a big shelf with lots of squares, our whiteboard is a big square, and the lid of a box is square.
    We know these shapes because we were looking at shapes not long ago too: pentagon (5 sides), hexagon (6 sides), octagon (8 sides), parallelagram (4 sides), decagon (10 sides), diamond (4 sides). You might learn more about these shapes in older grades, we are in grades 3 and 4.
    From Miss A's Class
    Nagambie Primary School
    Australia

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  2. Hello Miss A's class

    It's great to hear from you.
    Those shapes sound very tricky to learn. You must work hard! Our Standard 2 and 3 classes are learning about two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D)shapes. We have also learnt a 2D shape called a an oblong. We like the word oblong.

    From Standard 1,2 and 3
    Steven Tito Academy
    Tanzania

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