Our math focus took a new turn this week: geometry! We have been working on identifying and describing two dimensional and three dimensional shapes. In our study, we are distinguishing between shapes by learning the different attributes like how many flat surfaces, vertices, and edges. Some of the shapes we have studied are sphere, cone, pyramid, cylinder, cube, and rectangular prism. Below, the students are counting vertices and edges. Then we played a game where the students had to identify the shape blindfolded! They did awesome!
With 2D shapes we studied circles, squares, rectangles, rhombuses, ovals, trapezoids, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. The children loved to create new shapes and pictures by arranging different 2D shapes together. The students used our class's Osmos and pattern blocks for building difficult shape puzzles.
On Friday, we had the opportunity to check out the Chromebook lab. We have been missing our computer lab time the last couple weeks because the intermediate students are testing. With the lab, the students took the first bit to practice their typing skills, then we got to play interactive games to review our geometry learning. Click on the links below to give them a try!
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