We talked about congruent sides this week, and the children tried to find shapes that matched perfectly to one side of another shape. To round out our geometry unit, we constructed a "shape quilt" that combined all of our knowledge about shapes being units of a whole as well as feeding our creative spirit. The children helped to calculate how many squares were needed for each child (8) to have six squares, and as motivation we read a book about a quilt being made by favorite pieces of clothing. Each child designed six squares, and we combined groups of six to make a huge paper quilt. We had to have a few conversations of parts of a whole, as each child really wants to take their pieces home.
We also created a shape riddle flap book, and the children drew their favorite shape, then composed a riddle to describe their shape. We are going to read our riddles to the first graders and see if they know what our favorite shapes are!
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| this activity involved copying a structure with cubes that was pre-made |
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| my favorite shape riddle...lift the flap! |
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Until Next Time,
Michele
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