Last week we finished up our unit on shapes. We read books about shapes and did different math activities with shapes. We spent a lot of time looking at shapes on paper, but I thought that we needed a little more experience with shapes in real life! To get some, we went out around downtown on a shape hunt! Each student had a recording sheet and we set off together to see which shapes we could find around our school. As we walked, it was so fun to hear the children yell out "Look! A triangle!" "Those wheels are a circle!". They were very excited each time that they found one. Here are some of the things that we found while walking.
We found rectangles!
We found triangles!
We found circles!
And we found one square!
And we even found some 3-D shapes that we just finished learning about! A planter cube, a trash cane cylinder, and a tennis ball sphere!
As we walked, the children were supposed to write down the things that they found for each shape. They had the option to write what they found or draw a picture of it in the appropriate spot. Here are a few examples....
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