Today we I took a selection of 3D shapes with us and we re-capped on their names and features. We also recalled the terms used to describe them. I then gave each group a list of shape names and terminology and asked them to ‘show’ what they meant. String was available and I thought the challenge was quite hard but the children were, as ever, very resourceful! One group had done very little work last week so this week I specified exactly where they should work and this seemed to make a hug difference.

In the end we toured each ‘museum’ and I was very impressed! We discussed which shapes were the trickiest to build ( cubes / cuboids) and which the easiest -anything with triangles in. From this we remembered that triangles are the strongest shape etc.