Today in math we explored rectangles and circles. I gave each of the children a rectangle cracker and a circle cracker. We talked about how they were different and what we noticed about each one. We noticed that rectangles had 4 sides, two short and two long, and four corners and that circles didn't have any! The kids really enjoyed getting to eat the crackers when we were done! Munchie Math is always fun!!!
During our extra lesson time we read the story, The Shape of Things , which describes how different shapes can make things around us and then we set out to go on a shape hunt around our downtown block and look for these shapes that we had learned about. We found TONS! We even found some different shapes like hexagons, squares, and triangles! The children did a great job! We found shapes all over the place!
We found rectangles in many different street and business signs. We also saw rectangles in lots of doors and windows.
We found circles on the trash cans, on gas caps, and even on a satellite dish!
We found lots of squares on the sidewalks, on street signs, and in windows.
I was really impressed when the kids found hexagons on the stop signs and octagons on windows at the church across the street!
This was a really neat way for us to look at the world around us and see how it relates to the things that we are doing in class. Math really is all around us!
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