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Spotting and naming shapes in a rangoli
Lesson
Anchor the opening to the culturally familiar rangoli image — children who have seen rangoli at home will connect quickly. A common error is calling any rounded shape a circle; nudge children to check whether the outline is perfectly round or merely curved. Additional practice with shape cut-outs (Let us Do Q5, p.45) is set as an at-home creative task.
0–8Open with the rangoli picture in the book. Ask children to look carefully and name any shape they can spot. Invite a few to point to circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles in the pattern before any writing begins.
8–20Let us Do Q1, p.44 ("Make Amma's rangoli on the dots given below.") — Children recreate the rangoli on the dot grid, connecting dots to trace each shape accurately.
20–28Let us Do Q2, p.45 ("Name the shapes drawn in Amma's rangoli....") — Children write the shape names; discuss as a class how they decided which name belongs to each shape.
28–36Let us Do Q3, p.45 ("How many shapes are made with (a) Curved lines (b) Straight lines") — Children sort and count, then share their counts with a partner.
36–40Let us Do Q4, p.45 ("Use cut outs of shapes to make a rangoli design....") — Children begin arranging shape cut-outs freely; any designs started here are a creative warm-up rather than a finished product.
Homework
Try to make the following objects using shape cutouts. (**Let us Do Q5, p.45**)
Let us Do Q2, p.45 — Name the shapes drawn in Amma's rangoli: _____, _____, _____
A rangoli has 3 circles, 2 triangles, and 4 squares. Which statement about the shapes in this rangoli is correct?
- A All the shapes are made with curved lines only.
- B More shapes are made with curved lines than with straight lines.
- C More shapes are made with straight lines than with curved lines.
- D The same number of shapes have curved lines and straight lines.
C. More shapes are made with straight lines than with curved lines.
What each wrong option reveals
- A Choosing 'all curved' suggests the child has not noticed that triangles and squares use straight sides.
- B Choosing 'more curved' suggests the child may have compared 3 circles to triangles (2) without including squares in the straight-line count.
- D Choosing 'same number' suggests the child may have compared circle count (3) to one of the straight-line shape types rather than their total.
Also saved as 8 periods or 11 periods.
- 2Opening boxes to discover flat faces
Lesson - 3Building and describing rectangles on dot grids
Lesson - 4Matchstick squares and the all-sides-equal rule
Lesson - 5Composing new shapes from square units
Lesson - 6Making and testing square corners with paper strips
Lesson - 7Counting and creating square corners with matchsticks
Lesson - 8Drawing, counting, and transforming triangles
Lesson - 9Tracing circles and folding to find the centre
Lesson - 10Comparing shape pairs and finding embedded rectangles
Lesson - 11Torn rectangles, odd-one-out, and filling gaps
Lesson - 12Splitting shapes into triangles and drawing in all orientations
Lesson - 13Border designs, line patterns, and the Tangram
Lesson - 14Whole-chapter shape gallery: connect, compare, create
Lesson
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