This morning we had been learning about all the different ways to describe the properties of 2D shapes and this afternoon we re-capped on them then I gave each a group a set of about 20 terms and shape names. The groups had to find a way to explain and show each word and most groups did really well. We finished by touring each group and we explored the fact that some shapes can have a whole list of properties – eg a rhombus  is a parallelogram and a regular rhombus is a square etc. I was really pleased with the afternoon and next time I need to prepare some challenge cards too.

To finish I described the properties of some mystery shapes and the children spotted my ‘deliberate’ (!) mistakes!!