In the middle of November a few students began a Geometry Unit. The goal of this unit was for students to be able to identify a variety of shapes and be able to count their sides and vertices. We primarily worked with shapes with 3-6 sides. All students excelled in this, and were even able count the sides and vertices of shapes with eight and nine sides. They learned about triangles, squares, rectangles and trapezoids. And also rhombus’, pentagons and hexagons.

After the 3rd lesson the students knew most of those shapes and were even able to draw them on their own. We played a game where we made those shapes above with our bodies and it worked perfectly because we have 7 kids.

We could make shapes with 6 students while one other student tried to guess what shape we were making. Every single time students were able to guess what shape we made. The students were able to participate in “Polygon Bingo” where they were asked to find a shape with “4 sides and 4 vertices”, which could be either a rhombus, rectangle, square or hexagon. By the beginning of December students were able to immediately associate a triangle with 3 sides and a pentagon having 5 sides.