We have gone on a hunt around the school for real life objects that resemble the 3-D solids we are learning about: cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, prisms and pyramids. We learned that rectangular prisms are by far the easiest to find. We had to venture into the gym cupboard to find a greater variety of 3-D solids!
Students have been tracing the sides or flat surfaces of the 3-D blocks we have in the classroom. We have learned that a sphere has no flat sides and a cone has only one.
We have also been sorting the shapes. For example, let's put all of the solids with square faces in this group and all of the solids with triangular faces in this group... Are there some solids that belong in both groups?
Now look for 3-D solids at home! (Note: The "cuboid" should be called a "rectangular prism".)
Kaitlyn has talked a lot about her 3-D solids learning, listing all the shapes off by heart :)
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