When a Line Bends

It's just about time to change our bulletin board again and I realized that I never posted our Shape Posters.  I put together this bulletin board at the end of our Geometry Unit.  We titled the board "When a Line Bends.... A Shape Begins," which comes from title of a book we read during this unit. Our Art Teacher actually uses this book to start off some of her art classes so a lot of the other classes were excited to see the phrase on our board too.

I used this board to display the shape posters that the kiddos made in math.  After we had spent a while identifying determining features of shapes,  the kiddos got to create posters to show what they had learned.  They had to work with a partner to sort a set of shapes into logical groups. They were allowed to choose how they would sort their shapes so this was a good way for me to see how well the kids understood the properties of the shapes. A lot of the kiddos used the idea of "round" or "curved" sides versus straight sides to sort their shapes.  A few partnerships grouped the shapes by the number of sides.

I think the board turned out pretty cute and the kiddos loved seeing each other's posters.  Next week we will have a new board though, in preparation for our Social Studies Exhibit.