SHAPES! There are shapes everywhere we look! Over the past seven days the students have been learning all about shapes. It is always amazing to watch and listen to the children’s critical thinking skills, the knowledge and awareness that they have about where shapes are throughout our world.
Once a new shape was introduced, the children began to see that shape everywhere we went! We asked the children to be inquirers and look for squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, ovals, stars, and diamonds in different parts of our room and in the park. Many of the students were amazing in their discoveries, questioning and comparing shapes to one another.
During learning centers students have played with shapes at the water table, the sand table, our art area, the block area, our light table using various colored slides, puzzles, and they even discovered that there were shapes in our housekeeping area! The children made four puppets of the basic shapes: square, rectangle, triangle, and circle! These were great for the children because it helped remind them how many sides each shape had, and a fun little fact about each of the shapes!
On Monday, October 6th, we were honored to have Grady’s mom Bridgett Thomas and her colleague Neil Katz from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP firm visit our class! “Mr. Neil” put together an awesome presentation to share with the children how shapes are in everything we see and do in our world. We can find shapes in nature, food, buildings, people, and animals! Bridgett helped in explaining how shapes make our world an interesting and beautiful place and how to look for different shapes and be aware of our surroundings. Since their visit, the children have been really observant about the shapes and patterns in our classroom and outside on the playground! What an awesome extension to our Shape Study! THANK YOU BRIDGETT and NEIL!!!
Below are just a few photos from our seven days of shapes!
Preschool in the City with Mrs. Gabelman 