In this 4 week course, students will explore 2D and 3D shapes through a variety of activities. Students will be able to identify shape pictures, words, and objects, understand geometry vocabulary, and relate what they have learned to real word objects. Students will participate in shape scavenger hunts around their home environments to find objects that relate to the shapes we are covering that week. Students will be able to build their own 3D shapes using provided printable pdfs.   

Weeks #1-2: 2D shapes - students will explore shapes such as circle, square, rectangle, pentagon, octagon, oval, rhombus, and more. 
Weeks #3-4: 3D shapes - students will explore shapes such as cone, cylinder, sphere, prism, pyramid, cube, and more. 

Book List:
Math Concepts Made Easy: 3-D Shapes By: Marina Cohen
Math Concepts Made Easy: Polygons By: Marina Cohen
Silly Shapes By: Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand
Illustrated by: Iesha Wright

Throughout this class, students will engage with their peers through the use of Kahoots! and class wide games like Jeopardy! and BINGO. Nearpod will also be utilized to demonstrate what students have learned, engage in virtual field trips, and allow for classmate interaction. Students will also post their completed crafts and assignments for their classmates to comment on. Students will follow along with various crafts such as coloring pages, multimedia crafts, informative diagrams, cut and paste crafts, and so much more! We will engage in activities such as interactive google presentations, mini info books, and super exciting experiments! Students will create an interactive notebook throughout the course to keep up with what they have learned and use later for reference. Also shared in the classroom will be exciting videos for students to watch and learn from, guided questions will be attached to each video. Students will be asked to explore their own environments in a class wide scavenger hunt related to the different topics each week where they observe their home and post pictures of what they have found. Students will engage with each other through these scavenger hunts as students post pictures of what they have found and guided questions are used to engage the class.