Homeschool Me! » Math http://www.homeschool.me Homeschool articles, resources and real-world advice. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:53:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Shape Shooters http://www.homeschool.me/2009/10/shape-shooters.php http://www.homeschool.me/2009/10/shape-shooters.php#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:24:27 +0000 Kay http://www.homeschool.me/?p=732 Kate the "Shape Shooter"I got this idea from 100 Best Ideas for Primary Math, by Holly Sar Dye, M.A., to take Kate for a walk around the neighborhood. During our walk I encouraged her to look for different shapes and to take pictures of those objects for us to look at later. We would be “Shape Shooters” – shooting pictures of shapes on our walk. (Clever, I know…) I asked her to look for at least one circle, rectangle, square, triangle, diamond, oval, and octagon.

I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun this activity was and how easy it was to find all sorts of shapes just on our cul-de-sac. I even brought along my husband’s fancy camera so I could shoot a few with her and really enjoyed shooting completely different subjects than I normally do.

We took quite a few of the shots during our 15 minute walk. It would have been a MUCH longer walk if we hadn’t needed to get back quickly to eat lunch! Kate didn’t want to come back!

Kate took the first nine (she’s a great budding photographer – ever the artist!).
I’ve added a few of mine at the end that I thought were fun, too. (If you click on any one of them, you can see the full size image.)
Enjoy!
Sidewalk Square Karis spies our first circle - a garbage can's wheels Light Post Oval Milk Jug Circle Sewer Cover Circle Bottle Cap Circle Mailbox Rectangle and Key Circle Stop Sign Octagon and Street Sign Rectangles Pine Needles Triangle Diamond Sign Mushroom Circle Hydrant Pentagon Tail Light Rectangle Air Conditioner Fan Circle Brick Rectangles and Mushroom Circles Kate the "Shape Shooter"

Will you be a “Shape Shooter”, too? What shapes can you and your little ones find on your walk?? Leave a comment below to tell us…

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