Aligning with our KinderArt study, we have been focusing on shapes during Math. We have looked closely at circles, squares, and triangles finding them around the room, in magazines, and in Cezannes painting. We used words to describe the different characteristics each shape exhibits as we looked with our eyes at drawings and felt the shapes in sock feely buckets. We even compared these shapes to 3 dimensional objects-cubes, spheres, triangular prisms, cylinders, and cones. The children also used these shapes to make a variety of patterns using sponges and paint and cut out shapes. They even learned to label their patterns using letters. Ask your child what an A,B,B,A pattern would look like.
Today, we used our sense of sight to notice many patterns in a quilt created by Mrs. F's mom. We learned how to describe patterns that were located horizontally, vertically, and diagonally across the quilt. We then created quilt squares to make a community quilt and will look at this more closely tomorrow. Today, the children noticed that 2 triangles can be put together to form a square. Check out our class quilt below!
