We love making activities that are practical, economical and encourage students to creatively and with curiosity. Our new stick cards pack, Bunny Rabbit Stick Shapes provide 52 activity prompts to help students explore lines, shape, position and angles.
They will:
- take a card
- talk about the shape
- copy the shape using craft sticks
- use mathematical language as they build and modify
Encourage your learners to talk about the lines in each shape they make. You may hear them say things like: corner, straight, up and down, across, sloping, slanting, between, crossed, join, inside, outside, left, right and diagonal. If not, model this language for them and encourage them to express their mathematical ideas naturally.
Link the learning you encourage in this activity with your students' prior and future experiences:
- Have you seen a shape like this before?
- Look around for similar lines in the classroom.
- What does this shape remind you of?
As students move from one shape card to the next, challenge them to modify their existing sticks to create the new one.
Encourage language such as flip, turn, rotate and slide.
This activity is great for fine motor and visual memory also.
Included in the printable file is a recording worksheet, cover page and activity instructions.
Find more stick shape card packs in our range over on the website.
Find it in our TPT store: Bunny Rabbit Stick Shapes