AC9MFSP01
Mathematics | Foundation
Sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons
Elaborations
• sorting a collection of shapes into groups based on different features such as the number of sides, colour or size, and describing how they have been sorted.
• creating a picture using a variety of shapes and a range of materials, including objects to trace around, describing the shapes they have created or used and sharing why they chose each shape in their picture
• creating familiar shapes using groups of people; for example, holding hands and creating a circle
• recognising and naming shapes that are (close to) rectangles, squares, triangles and circles in component parts of everyday items; for example, on bicycles, toy vehicles or kitchen pantry items
• describing and naming shapes within objects that can be observed on Country/Place, recreating and sorting into groups based on their shape
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Build a Boat with Shapes
📔 Let’s Build A Boat by Jane Godwin• We are learning to apply knowledge of 2D shapes to design a boat.
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Home for the Fish!
📔 Shapes with Little Fish by Lucy Cousins• Students are learning to identify and match basic shapes.
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Shape Party Colouring
📔 Shapes at the Party: A Book of Shapes by Kat Macleod• We are learning to recognise 2D shapes in everyday objects.
Geometric Landscape
📔 Shapes of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft• Students learn to identify, sort, and name familiar 2D shapes
