Here are a few photos of students working on their Architek builds. Architek is a fun and challenging game that helps children learn to focus, problem solve, explore the notions of angles, tessellations and perspective, as well as other concepts such as force and its application in simple construction. It’s a Défi math game that is also used in upper grade levels, so you will see it again at some point! The students love the challenge and the excitement that comes with placing the last block on their towers, as you can see in the pictures!
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Experiences where children put the shapes within the lines expands their understanding of being able to see the individual parts in relation to the whole. It is also an opportunity for the students to show their creativity and imagination!
Making shapes, starting to learn the names in French and working on fine motor skills by manipulating the elastics! Included in the bin of geoboards and elastics are cards with patterns for the students to try and replicate. These pictures are of just that, proud kids who successfully replicated the card they were working on!
Picking a card and reproducing the image is one of the activities we are working on in math. Students are tasked with choosing a card and then using their 'little muscles' (as they are now calling them!) to stretch out the elastics and complete the image. When they finish one card, they get to make a silly image of their own. Later, we will use the blank geoboard cards to draw our own images and add it to the collection! As we work, we talk about the shapes and how all the images are formed using a variety of shapes. Shapes are all around us!
Community places and math collide in this fun activity! We projected images of places in a community on a white paper and looked for shapes, then we traced them. After we found as many shapes as we could, we took away the projection to see what we found, a lot of shapes. Turns out, shapes are everywhere. Afterwards, I was hearing the kids notice different shapes in our classroom and around the school! Super fun activity! Before we started, these were just a bunch of shapes on a piece of paper. As we observed closely and opened our minds to all the possible things these shapes could be, we came up with many creative ideas. After talking about the shapes and proposing what they could be, we each got our own to colour. Check out the pictures below to see what some of the students thought their cluster of shapes looked like! These are laminated so the possibilities are endless, they can be something else once we wipe off the dry erase markers and start again! Check out this blog post to see the other ways we will be exploring shapes in the future! http://acadecapkinders.weebly.com/blog/finding-shapes-in-everything |
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