Pass the Shape {1~23~14}

My favorite lesson/activity from Thursday was math. Students have been learning about 2D shapes but today 3D shapes were introduced. The focus was on really getting the class familiar with the name of each shape. 

To do this, the class played “Pass the Shape”. Everyone sits on the floor in a circle. The teacher begins with the first shape, she shows students the shape and states the name of it. Then it is passed to the student sitting closest to her. This student passes the shape to the person sitting next to them and so on. However, before each student can pass the shape, they have say the name of it. At first, the next shape isn’t introduced until the previous shape has finished going all the way around. The fun starts after all of the shapes have been introduced! More than one shape is passed at a time so the students have to be paying attention and know the name of each shape before they can pass it on. We only had a few shape pile ups but overall the activity was fun and successful! Pass the Shape requires each student to say the name of each shape so they are more likely to learn and remember it. Students are also able to touch, hold, and feel each shape. 

Penguins were the topic for reading. Students completed an activity page that required them to read, trace, cut out, glue, and draw. Students first read the sentence then traced over each letter to write the sentence. Each word from the sentence was originally at the bottom of the page, so students needed to cut them apart, unscramble the sentence, and glue the words in order (without forgetting the period at the end!). After that, they could draw and color a picture to match the sentence. Before handing in their activity page, each student had to read their sentence to a teacher.