Maths Week in 1st and 2nd Class

We had lots of fun celebrating Maths Week in 1st and 2nd class.

We were learning about shapes so were challenged to make human sized shapes using all of the people in our groups. It turns out that circles are tricky to make using bodies if you don’t want any corners.

Second class started to learn about square corners which are more commonly known as right angles. The children went on a square corner hunt around the classroom to see how many they could find.

We went on a shape hunt outside using our shape magnifying glasses. There are lots of circles and rectangles in the school grounds, but semicircles were a little trickier to find. Some very observant members of the class noticed that our neighbour, the highland cow, has a semicircular shaped nose.

We ended our week by creating some shape monsters. It was interesting to see how many corners and sides our monsters had, some even had square corners.