22 September 14 (Monday)

Dear children,

We started on the topic of geometry today for math. Through watching two videos, you learnt about the different 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) shapes. You did some cutting and pasting as you decided whether the cylinder, the circle, the square, the cube, the triangle, the cone, the sphere and the rectangle were 2D shapes or 3D shapes.

You also worked with your partner to handle a set of solid objects and tried to discover the number of flat faces each of the objects had. Then, you tried to identify the shapes that made up the flat faces. Here are two questions to test a little of your understanding: 

1) How many flat faces does a square-based pyramid have? 

2) What shapes make up its flat faces?

After that, we investigated how a semicircle and a quarter circle are related to a circle through an activity that involved cutting.

During English lesson, we went through some adjectives to describe the characters found in "The Fisherman and His Wife". We also went through a grammar cloze that focused on the use of adjectives.

These are today's announcements:

1) Please bring a pair of scissors and glue tomorrow. Tomorrow's math lesson will involve more cutting and pasting, so it will be good for you to have your own set.

2) For homework, please go to this website and play with the virtual tangram: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/tangram.html

Use your mouse to drag the different coloured pieces around and make different figures with them. You can even spin a shape by clicking on the coloured circles at the bottom of the screen. Try making the following:

-A square using 2 pieces

-A square using 3 pieces

-A triangle using 2 pieces

-A triangle using 3 pieces

-A rectangle using 3 pieces

-A rectangle using 4 pieces

3) For art lesson, bring along a 2B pencil and a piece of drawing paper.

See you tomorrow! :)