This week we are learning abut names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We can group them according to these properties and guess which shape someone is thinking of by asking them questions or listening to their description.
We found out that 'tri' meant 3 and 'quad' meant 4 so we could understand the names of some shapes e.g. triangle and quadrilateral.
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We found out that 'tri' meant 3 and 'quad' meant 4 so we could understand the names of some shapes e.g. triangle and quadrilateral.
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We had a great discussion about 'what is a prism?' and tried visualizing shapes to describe them. We made 3d shapes using polydron, some children set themselves some fantastic challenges like making a hexagonal prism. Can you remember what a tetrahedron is??