{"id":9174,"date":"2026-09-30T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:50:30","slug":"shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children were already good at naming some 2D shapes so it was great to learn more about the corners and sides and have fun creating pictures with them.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9174 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5594\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185418\/IMG_5594-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5599\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185426\/IMG_5599-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5600\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185438\/IMG_5600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5603\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185449\/IMG_5603-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5604\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185458\/IMG_5604-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5607\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185507\/IMG_5607-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5608\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185516\/IMG_5608-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5611\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185525\/IMG_5611-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5612\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185535\/IMG_5612-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5676\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185544\/IMG_5676-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>They also sorted shapes and used them to draw pictures and create patterns.<\/p>\n<p>They then moved onto learning about some 3D shapes. It was great fun trying to find cylinders, cuboids, spheres, etc all around the school.<\/p>\n<p>They soreted shapes into ones that can stack\/can&#8217;t stack, ones that can roll\/can&#8217;t roll and built some fantastic models with them.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-9174 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_5676\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185544\/IMG_5676-1024x765.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185544\/IMG_5676-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185544\/IMG_5676-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185544\/IMG_5676-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30185544\/IMG_5676.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/img_2630\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30190452\/IMG_2630-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30190452\/IMG_2630-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30190452\/IMG_2630-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30190452\/IMG_2630-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30190452\/IMG_2630.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>They used 3D shapes in the craft\/junk modelling area to make robots and learnt lots of new skills for joining the different parts.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-9174 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/?attachment_id=9220'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194920\/IMG_5678-765x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194920\/IMG_5678-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194920\/IMG_5678-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194920\/IMG_5678-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194920\/IMG_5678-rotated.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/?attachment_id=9219'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194911\/IMG_5677-1024x765.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194911\/IMG_5677-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194911\/IMG_5677-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194911\/IMG_5677-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/09\/30194911\/IMG_5677.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children were already good at naming some 2D shapes so it was great to learn more about the corners and sides and have fun creating pictures with them. They also sorted shapes and used them to draw pictures and create patterns. They then moved onto learning about some 3D shapes. It was great fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/09\/30\/shapes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shapes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,39,19,12],"tags":[48,49,50,52,51,22,81,62,56,8,61],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-craft","category-listening-and-talking","category-maths","category-social-skills","category-stem","tag-choice","tag-collaboration","tag-communication","tag-connection","tag-core","tag-creativity","tag-enthusiasm","tag-fine-motor-skills","tag-fun","tag-love-life-love-learning","tag-play-based-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}