Everywhere, as the first graders discovered!

On a chilly, blustery day we took our iPads out for a shape hunt. To correlate with their math unit the children were searching for circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, triangles, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. Students could also photograph solid shapes if they wanted.

After two quick reviews – one over shapes and one about taking quality photos, we picked up our iPads and started the search.

After searching for a bit, we returned to the lab where the students used the Pic Collage app to insert and label their photos.

Next, the students uploaded their collages to their blog. They were asked to reflect on the shape hunt.

• Was it hard to find all the shapes?
• Were you surprised at where you found shapes?

The students enjoyed their search and were surprised at some of the places where they found shapes!