This week the badgers, learning group have been exploring, identifying and investigating 2D and 3D shapes. We have been looking at shape features in order to identify them. We have been sorting them by colour, size, if they are curved or straight, 3 or 4 sided as well as sorting into 2D and 3D groups.

We explored and created our own repeating 2 and 3 step shape patterns. At first, we found this tricky but after moving our learning outside and moving shapes as well our bodies we were able to start creating and following some very challenging patterns.

A ‘This goes, triangle, circle, square, triangle, circle, square.’

J ‘It does the same, triangle, triangle, circle, circle, triangle, triangle.’

We continued our detective work by walking around school and trying to find as many different 2D and 3D shapes as possible. We took photos of the ones we found as well as drawing them onto clipboards.

‘This fire thing is a cylinder shape’ R

J ‘Mr Flowers Door is a rectangle, the plug is a 2D square, the radiator is a like a rectangle but its 3D. I think it is a cuboid’.

‘Wow! The bin in the playground is a cylinder, it is 3D!’

As you can see some some ,the brilliant badgers have really worked hard to deepen their maths knowledge.

Can you find more shapes in and around your homes? What shapes can you find? Are they 3D or 2D? How many faces or sides do they have? Don’t forget to take a photo and upload onto Tapestry. Happy shape hunting!