Geometry Unit

We have just begun a unit on geometry. The children wrote a classroom book called The Shape of Things, based on a story by Dayle Ann Dodds in which each child made a page based on a specific shape they chose. We have been working with making shapes on geoboards with rubber bands. We have also made shapes with playdough and mat boards. Children have played a game called Fill the Hexagon. They roll a shape die and fill the game board with their shapes. Most recently we took a walk around the school looking for three dimensional shapes. We found cones, rectangular prisms, cylinders and spheres. The only thing we had trouble finding was pyramids. The last image shows a computer program we have used for creating shapes. The kids love doing shapes on the computer.