My Book of Quadrilaterals

Do you use your daily calendar time to practice math skills?     Practice, Practice....Practice is still what students need.  I believe in fluency practice for math as well as reading.  I have my calendar leader run through a quick review which lasts about 5 minutes.  I change the review to match the math concepts of the week. 

Looking at CCSS.Math.Content.3.G.A.1 (reasoning with shapes and quadrilaterals), my students have been extremely successful at identifying shapes, listing attributes of shapes, drawing quadrilaterals, and classifying shapes.  As a part of our daily calendar routine, our calendar leader (a student) describes shape attributes for a specific unknown shape.  For example, the calendar leader might list the shape attributes for a rhombus.

• four sides
• two sets (pairs) of parallel lines
• no right angles
• all four side lengths are equal

The calendar leader chooses another student to name the shape.  My kids love this guessing game!  Best of all.......they are mastering the ability to match attributes with specific shapes.  We also add math vocabulary terms to this guessing game.  This only takes a few minutes of my morning, but it is so worth the time.   


In preparing to review geometry shapes for our year end state test, I developed a full-page and half-page booklet to use as an end of the year review.  The product is called My Book of Quadrilaterals.  Included in this product, there are 11 posters, 19 booklet pages in half-page and full page format, and quick quizzes.  My kids loved the half-page booklet.  I have included easy page layout and copy instructions for the half-page booklet. 


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