As we started to wrap up our 3D shapes unit, we read a few stories about 3D shapes and discussed what we saw. We read a story about a robot who fell off a wall like Humpty Dumpty. He fell apart, and was made of different 3D shapes. Some children in the story put him back together again. As a follow up activity, the students made their own 3D-shape robot, consolidating their learning on the names, attributes (2D faces, some parts are flat and some are round or curved) and properties (which stack well and why, which roll and why) of the shapes.

Here is a poem we read together several times in the past few weeks:

3D Shapes are fat not flat

A Cone is like a party hat

A Sphere is like a bouncy ball

A Prism like a building tall

A Cylinder’s a can of pop

A Cube is like a dice you drop

3D Shapes are here and there

3D Shapes are everywhere