Shape Town with Mrs. Lyle

Shape Town...
We talked about the attributes of shapes. Children graphed and sorted shapes, and they went on a shape hunt with partners. Last week we acted out a story about shapes and then the children created a shape town using a variety of shapes.Your children are now shape experts! Throughout this shape unit, each child has had the opportunity to talk about shapes and what makes each shape different. They have learned to look for the number of sides and the number of corners when referring to individual shapes. It is amazing to listen to our shape experts explain what makes a square, a square. Encouraging our students to talk about what they know and articulate the different attributes, in their own words, is an important first step in mathematics.