This week in math, we have launched a new unit - Shapes. We read aloud a story, When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins by Rhonda Gowler Greene and learned that shapes are everywhere around us. Some shapes are made of curvy lines, like an oval or circle. Some shapes have straight lines, like rectangles and triangle. Today we did a shape sorting activity by looking at different shapes (rectangle, square, circle, crescent, star, hexagon, octagon, trapezoid, ovals ...) and sorted them in categories. We learned a new term, "attributes" (the characteristics of an object/person/living thing).
Here's what they found out:
"A triangle has 3 corners" - Adessa
"A square has 4 sides that are the same." - Mahmoud
"A rectangle has 2 short sides and 2 long sides." - Yaseen
We are going to continue studying 2-dimensional shapes this week, and next week we will be looking closely at 3-dimensional shapes.
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