Year 1 Bulletin

Maths

Learning Intention:

To identify similar shape properties of items to help sort items into categories.

Learning Experience Overview:

Students were presented with pictures of a variety of objects and instructed to sort them based on their shape properties. This was an open task, as students were not instructed as to how to present their data.

Whole: 

As a class, we revised our Shape anchor chart, which highlights the names of shapes and their properties. Properties we have discussed in previous maths lessons are faces, sides and vertices. We then looked at some of the images students would be sorting and discussed which properties we may sort them by and potential groupings we might form.

Prompts

• What shape can you see?
• What are its properties that relate to shape? How many faces/sides/vertices?

 Small:

Students went off individually to create a poster that put each of the items they had been given into a group. They had two sheets of sorting cards.

Share and reflect:

At the end of the lesson we gathered on the mat and teachers selected students who had taken three different approaches to share their poster. As a class, we talked about the groupings and the properties which they highlighted.

How you might like to continue learning at home:

• Identify 2D and 3D shapes in real life scenarios.
• Have a go at counting how many faces, sides or vertices (corners) it has.
• Challenge yourself to see if you can count the hidden properties of shapes. For example, if you drive past the front of a cube-shaped house you can see one face, but how many other faces are there on the cube?

Some of the work Grade 1 produced in our maths lesson:

Stef, Georgia, Cliodhna & Hayley 🙂 

Year 1 Team

Stephanie.Lampard@education.vic.gov.au

georgia.kargiotis@education.vic.gov.au