Room 24's learning journey: Shapes, shapes and more shapes!

This week our maths has been a bit different... we are exploring during maths time. Yay!

Monday

Mrs Fulford introduce the idea of cars, trucks and things. We talked about different vehicles and shape. To start we brainstormed what shapes we knew (we knew most of the 2D shapes like circle, square, triangle) Although we knew most of the 2D shapes we didn’t know how to describe them, so Mrs F started there. She introduced these shapes.

2D shapes – circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, pentagon, oval

3D shapes – cylinder, cube, cuboid, sphere

We played the freely bag game where we got to see the difference between 2D and 3D shapes. We learnt the attributes of shapes. 2D shapes are flat, have sides and corners. 3D shapes are fat, have edges, faces and vertices (corners) Mrs Fulford introduced a cool game on the smart board where we need to sort shapes based on their attributes. After we finished playing we went away to explore different shape equipment. Here are some photos...

Tuesday

We played the feely bag game again (we really like it) then Mrs Fulford had a big surprise. She gave us paper and a pencil and took us outside to look for 2D and 3D shapes on the cars in the carpark. We drew and talked about the different shapes we saw then we went back inside to investigate vehicles on the computers. We found some cool cars!

Here we investigating with our buddy. We discovered that although there are some interesting shaped cars most vehicles are cuboids with cylinder shaped wheels.

Wednesday

Today we finished our plans and investigation from yesterday and then... we got to create our own vehicle using different things like construction, the whiteboards, playdough, maths equipment, chalk and paint. Here are the amazing creations we made.