And the search was on. Could we find 3D shapes in our classroom? The children took pencil and clipboard and a picture representation of the shapes, and found all sorts of 3D shapes, especially in the block corner.
We made a very colorful mural of pictures we might see in the sky, at the beach, and in the ocean. The pictures were all constructed of shapes!
How many ways can you construct a hexagon?
This week we got creative with shapes...can we make shapes? Can we make shapes into something else? How about creating a pattern picture with 28 shapes with a partner, then counting up how many of each shape we used? Can we construct a hexagon with the different shapes that we have learned about? To all of these questions, the kindergartners found the answer was YES and shared their results with their classmates.
We've begun a new unit of SHAPES and our introduction included books about shapes, discussing different shapes, and making our own shapes from playdough, geoboards, and paper. The children constructed shape posters with the text "A _____is just a ______ until you add__________and then it is___________." They made fish, faces, houses, and other beautiful pictures from a single shape with the addition of lines, colors, and other shapes.
There was some serious number gaming going on in the K math class this week. The children paired up to turn over cards and add two numbers together to decide who had the larger number, or tossed red/yellow counters to see how many reds and how many yellows.
We got ready for Pi day, as well, choosing numbers 11 through 20 and illustrating the number, then finding the way in the order of numbers.
Look at the expressions on the children's faces. They were absolutely serious.
We figure out the order of the numbers 11-20 with a little help from our friends. The children were very proud of their contributions.
we've moved on to creating designs and recording them, using number tiles. The children will construct a book of designs, all different and interesting ways to look at a set. We played a memory game with these sets, and the children remembered and copied designs that used 6 tiles. The designs that we are creating have "rules", now, mainly that at each tile has to touch a side, part of a side, or a corner of the design.
