Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Geometric Shapes and Landforms

We have already worked with flat, drawn shapes that are called "plane shapes". We drew triangles, rectangles, circles and squares. We had to know how many corners and sides each shape has.

Today, we worked with our attribute shapes to study these geometric shapes: hexagons, triangles, square, rhombuses and trapezoids. Our challenge was to use these shapes to form hexagons in 8 different ways. First, we did them alone and created organized tables. Next, we created them as a table.

Here are our proud tables and the great work that they did!



Later, we got clipboards and paper. We copied 8 land landform words from the board (valley, mountain, lake, hill, plain, island, rive and ocean) and then we drew and colored them. For extra credit, we flipped our paper over on the back and wrote/illustrated other landforms that were not on our class list.
It's beginning to look a lot like second grade.........

1 comment:

Sarah said...

This is the first time I've visited your teaching blog. Wow! You seem to be a really great teacher--the kind of teacher I wanted to be but never managed to become. (I taught 7th and 8th grade reading for four years and then quit when I had my first baby.) I'm so glad there are creative, passionate teachers out there!

I wish my son's teachers had blogs like this so I could see what he's up to. All I ever get from him is, "School was fine."