For the last week, we have been learning about shapes. In our math lessons, we have learned about the different sides and angles of rectangles, circles, squares, triangles, and hexagons. To incorporate Language Arts, we have read lots of fun shape books. Two of my favorites are Shapes that Roll and The Greedy Triangle. These are great books that incorporate lots of different shapes. The Greedy Triangle is my very favorite because throughout the story the Triangle changes shapes by adding sides and angles and you see him out in the real world as those shapes. If you haven't read these, what are you waiting for?!
The students recognize shapes when we look for them on the math page, but it is important that they can recognize them in their day to day lives, so today we looked in our lunch for shapes! This was a fun way for us to look for shapes off the page. The children were asked to take out their lunch and then graph what shapes they found. This not only helped us recognize shapes, but reviewed graphing!
After the students graphed which shapes they found in their lunches, they had to write one thing about their lunch. This integrated writing into our activity as well!
Here are a few examples of what they found!
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| "My lid is a circle." |
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| "My Cheez-it's is a square." |
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| "My chocolate hills are triangles." |
Stay Tuned for our Shape Hunt later this week!
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