Marvellous Maths in Reception

 Marvellous Maths in Reception 

This week in Reception, the children explored shape. We reminded the children of the properties of 2D shapes. We saw how bigger shapes can be made up of smaller shapes e.g. two triangles make a square. We then explored the properties and names of different 3D shapes.

The children were provided with pictures of real- life castles, religious buildings and city scapes and then asked to recreate them using the 3D blocks.

Activities: 

Ahmed: "I made a castle" 

Zhyan: " It balances because the bottom is flat" 

Elyssa: " Two sqaures make a rectangle"

Ashar: " We made lots of triangles" 

Key Vocabulary: 

Shape, 3D, 2D, turn, rotate, bigger, smaller, flat, pointy, cube, cyclinder, cone, sphere, square, triangle, rectangle, circle