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Shape Faces: Craft, Name, and Place
Lesson
Children who confuse the cone with the cylinder can be guided to run a finger along the base edges: the cylinder has two circular edges while the cone tapers to a point. The positional questions — between, on top, under — are as important as the shape names, so give each position question its own brief pause. A common slip at this stage is calling any box a 'cube'; encourage children to check whether all faces look the same size before using that name.
0–12Children handle real boxes and bottles brought to class. Each child selects one object, feels its surface, and decides where to draw a face on it. Let us Do, p.9 ("Use old boxes and bottles to do craft work....") guides the making. Pairs share what they drew and name the object's solid shape — cube, cuboid, cylinder, or cone.
12–25Introduce face, edge, and corner using a labelled cube held up for the class. Children point to each feature on their own object and name it aloud. The teacher displays or sketches the labelled diagram from the chapter.
25–40Children work on Let us Do, p.9 ("Jaya's rocket: identify shapes used, count each type....") as a whole-class discussion. The teacher reads each positional question aloud — between, on top of, under — and children respond by pointing to or naming the relevant shape, practising spatial vocabulary alongside shape names.
Let us Do, p.9 — Use old boxes (cubes and cuboids) and bottles (cylinders) to do craft work. Draw faces on them. What did you draw on their faces?
Priya has a box of old containers. She picks one up and notices it has two flat circular faces and one curved surface all the way around. Which shape has she picked?
- A Cone
- B Cube
- C Cuboid
- D Cylinder
D. Cylinder
What each wrong option reveals
- A The child recognises a curved surface but does not notice there are two flat circular faces — a cone has only one.
- B The child may be guessing by object familiarity rather than reading the property clues.
- C The child may be thinking of a common container shape but ignoring the circular (not rectangular) faces described.
Also saved as 5 periods.
- 2Engine Count and House Build
Lesson - 3Construct, Describe, and Classify
Lesson - 4Sort by Properties, Reason with Rules
Lesson - 5Clay Skeletons and Cube Compositions
Lesson - 6Compare Shapes, Sequence a Build, Explore Dice
Lesson - 7Name Models, Build with Dice, Play the Shape Game
Lesson - 8Toy Joy Review: Name, Sort, Build, and Describe
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