Math

Before break we had wrapped up the measurement portion of Unit 5. Before we left we had learned telling time to the hour and half hour. We are refreshing with those skills this week before we take the Unit 5 assessment.

Our next unit is Geometry. Essential questions for this unit are:

How do we describe shapes and objects?
How can geometric figures be constructed?

Goals for this unit include:

-identify shapes based on their defining attributes. -build shapes with defining attributes. -draw shapes with defining attributes. -sort shapes by their defining attributes. -recognize when an attribute is non-defining. -use two or more 2-D shapes to create new shapes (e.g., put triangles together to make a rhombus or a hexagon). -use two or more 3-D shapes to create new shapes (e.g., combine two right triangular prisms to create a right rectangular prism). -make new shapes from composite shapes. -recognize what shapes are used to make composite shapes. -partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares. -describe equal shares as halves, fourths, or quarters. -use the phrases half of, fourth of, or quarter of.