The triominoes were popular again at Smart Start this week.  Alexander & Jaxon worked as a team to make a full hexagon using the triangles.  They said it was quite a challenge but they enjoyed it. They plan to tackle it again and see if they can make a bigger shape!

As part of our “Homes” project, we have been looking a tiling patterns.  Many of us have tiles in our homes in either bathrooms or kitchens and we talked about the patterns we see in these.  We went on to make our own tiling patterns using Mrs Gibson’s large carpet tiles.  We made lots of different patterns. Some were simple and others were much more complex.  We enjoyed doing it and used our knowledge to then go on and create tiling patterns of our own, using a maximum of three colours on ready made tiling designs.  We could make the designs our own by choosing the patterns we wanted to create.  It was quite tricky and took a while but we all enjoyed it.

One of the criteria for the homes we will be building is that we need to have some section of our home floor tiled- this gave us time to practice some ideas!