We continue to have absences in this group, and I know there is one student with planned absences next week. In effort to not leave any of our HA students behind, we continue to move slowly with our geometry. That's okay, because understanding the difference between vertices and angles takes time. This week, we combined shapes to create other shapes. We used the math manipulatives the students recently made for one of our lessons. In that lesson, students combined shapes on a worksheet to create new shapes. Students located the vertices, counted the sides, and identified their new creations as triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, or hexagons. During our second lesson, we reviewed/repeated content from previous lessons in effort to try and catch up some of our students that have been absent. We got back down on the floor and created acute, right, and obtuse angles with our bodies. We also stood up and used our arms to make angles. Holding our arms in position like a football goal post, students made right angles. Their elbows were the vertices. We also used our arms to make acute and obtuse angles. Next week, we will use the students' handmade math manipulatives to play Grupo. Grupo is a geometry game that involves inspecting shapes that have been made by combining smaller shapes. We had a first grade family send in some much needed supplies. Thank you so much!!!!
