Get Ready for 6th Grade!

Slide, Flip It, Turn It Picture: Use sponges cut into different shapes to paint a picture. When a student paints like this, they experience the movement of rigid transformations through slides, turns and flips of the sponge shapes. And paint some beautiful new artwork for the house! Discuss how the shapes move. Look for connections between sliding, turning and flipping. Explore using different transformations to produce the same result.

Unraveling Circles: We use cylinders and circles around the house all the time--cans, tortillas, rolls of paper towels--but what happens when we unroll them? How many ways can we do this? What shape will a clinder make if you lay it flat? Does it matter how you cut it?