Exploring Shapes in Our Environment – Including 3D Shapes!
This week, the children have been exploring shapes in their environment. Through interactive games and hands-on activities, they have been learning to recognise both 2D and 3D shapes around them. We have discussed familiar shapes like circles, squares, and triangles, but we have also introduced 3D shapes such as cubes, spheres, cylinders, and cones.
The children have been excited to find shapes in everyday objects—like noticing that a clock looks like a circle, a book resembles a rectangle, or that a cereal box is shaped like a cuboid!
We encourage you to support this learning at home by pointing out shapes around your house and when you're out and about. You can make it a fun game by asking:
- "Can you find something shaped like a sphere?" (e.g., a football or an orange)
- "What in our kitchen looks like a cylinder?" (e.g., a can of food or a rolling pin)
- "What shape is the roof of that house?" (e.g., a triangular prism)
It's amazing what children notice when they start looking carefully at the world around them! This activity not only strengthens their shape recognition skills but also helps develop their observation and problem-solving abilities.
Thank you for your continued support in making learning fun and meaningful for your child!
I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and we look forward to seeing you all after the break.
Mrs Robinson:)