Silverdale St Johns Primary School

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Silverdale St Johns Primary School

• Class 3
• Year1 2

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Class 3 have worked on

• Tessellating regular polygons
• Tiling patterns
• Investigating Pentominoes
• Books of shapes- Year 2
• Were Going on a Square Hunt-Year1

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Tessellating regular polygons
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Tiling patterns

• Rob discovered this super tiling pattern made
  with hexagons, squares and triangles.
• Megan used stars and hexagons.

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Other tessellating shapes

• Elizabeth found some other shapes that
  tessellated.

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Pentominoes 1

• First we made all the pentominoes we could from 5
  interlocking cubes
• Then we cut out paper pentominoes showing the
  different shapes

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Pentominoes 2

• Next we found the ones that tessellated.
• Finally we used large cardboard versions to draw
  round and then painted them to show the
  tessellations.

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Pentominoes 3
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Pentominoes 4
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Pentominoes 5

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Escher

• We looked at some pictures created by an artist
  called
• Escher

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Our Escher designs

• We cut up a square or rectangle
• The piece we cut off one side we stuck onto the
  opposite side.

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We drew around our new shapes to tessellate them.
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Year 2 Shape books

• We read
• A triangle for Adaora- An African book of
  shapes
• We adapted the story to make our own books-
• A ___ for ______ -
• A Silverdale book of Shapes

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Year 2 books
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Were Going on a Square Huntby Year 1

• We adapted Were Going on a Bear Hunt

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• Were going on a square hunt
• Were going to catch a big one
• What a beautiful day!
• Were not scared.

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• Uh-uh! Classroom!
• Lots of busy children.
• We cant go over them.
• We cant go under them.
• Oh no!
• Weve got to go through them!

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• Excuse me!
• Excuse me!
• Excuse me please!

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• Were going on a square hunt.
• Were going to catch a big one.
• What a beautiful day!
• Were not scared.

• Uh-uh A cloakroom!
• An untidy cloakroom.
• We cant go over it.
• We cant go under it.
• Oh no!
• Weve got to go through it!

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• Stumble trip!
• Stumble trip!
• Stumble trip!

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• Were going on a square hunt.
• Were going to catch a big one.
• What a beautiful day!
• Were not scared.

• Uh-uh! Corridor!
• A noisy corridor
• We cant go over it.
• We cant go under it.
• Oh no!
• Weve got to go along it!

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• Shhh!
• Shhh!
• Shhhhhh!

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• Were going on a square hunt.
• Were going to catch a big one.
• What a beautiful day!
• Were not scared.

• Uh-uh! Hall!
• A big empty hall
• We cant go over it.
• We cant go under it.
• Oh no!
• Weve got to go through it!

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• Tiptoe!
• Tiptoe!
• Tiptoe!

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• Were going on a square hunt.
• Were going to catch a big one.
• What a beautiful day!
• Were not scared.

• Uh-uh! Cold!
• The hall is cold
• We cant go over it.
• We cant go under it.
• Oh no!
• Weve got to go through it!

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• Shiver!
• Shiver!
• Shiver!

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• Were going on a square hunt.
• Were going to catch a big one.
• What a beautiful day!
• Were not scared.

• Uh-uh! A trapdoor!
• A rectangular trapdoor
• We cant go over it.
• We cant go under it.
• Oh no!
• Weve got to go lift it!

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• Squeak!
• Creak!
• Squeak!

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• WHATS THAT?
• Four corners
• Four edges
• Sides all the same
• ITS A SQUARE!!!!!!!

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Goodbye!

• We had a lot of fun shape hunting and
  tessellating.
• We hope you enjoyed looking at our work.