Gingerbread Geometry...sneak peek!

This week, we started a new unit, two-dimensional geometry! I decided to incorporate this into a holiday art project. The students started making pieces they will use to create a gingerbread house landscape. We used the pieces we made this week to learn about points, lines, line segments, and to model intersecting, parallel, and perpendicular. We will "keep building" next week as I introduce rays, angles (acute, right, obtuse), and polygons. (Yes, your child is still in third grade and not middle school :-))

Student leaders picked one of the concepts we're learning (intersecting, perpendicular, or parallel), showed their classmates what they chose, and checked their peers' models.