Today's Classroom Activities :

Activities With A Shape

Shapely Sandwiches
Math/Health Provide healthy geometric sandwiches as a culminating activity to your math unit. Use whole-wheat bread and cheese, egg salad, tuna, etc. Then cut the sandwiches into triangle, square, circle, oval or diamond shapes. Wrap them individually. Have students identify them, sort them in Venn diagrams, then eat and enjoy all that math.

Springtime Shapes
Math/Poetry Read this poem, then take the children outside to identify other things with these shapes. Later have them draw or paint a picture of other springtime shapes.

In Shape for Spring

by Jacqueline Schiff

Hopscotch squares on the sidewalk.
A circle of sun in the sky.
Oval eggs of a robin,
And diamond kites flying so high.

Triangle beak of the bluebird.
Rectangle boxes of seed.
Cylinder cans in the garden
For watering plants that we need.

Rectangle swings on the playground.
Circular birdbaths in May.
Triangle sails on toy sailboats;
The shapes of a great springtime day!

Spaghetti Shapes
Math/Art Provide each student with some construction paper, glue and uncooked spaghetti. Review triangles, pentagons, octagons, etc., and have the children "build" them out of spaghetti and glue them onto the paper. One child can do a demonstration with the spaghetti on the overhead.

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