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14 thoughts on “House”
The door frame can be a challenge! I don’t want to give away how to do it, but I will tell you that there are no shape borders involved.
You can turn on captioning when viewing the video on YouTube.
I tried shapegrams #1 in one of my fifth grade classes at my own school and in my son’s second grade class. Both groups absolutely LOVED it!
After they finished students visited Wonderopolis and learned all about how buildings are built. With the embedded immersive reader it’s accessible to any age and a great extension to the first shapegrams activity! https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-are-buildings-built
When it was time to go the kids said “Wait, we are going to do this again NEXT Friday right???” 😁 Needless to say it was a huge hit!
Next time, I would love to have the kids build their own houses with straws and cardboard tubes as a hands on extension after learning about buildings as suggested in the Wonderopolis article. https://frugalfun4boys.com/building-activity-for-kids-straws-paper-towel-rolls/
SO many ways to use Shapegrams with my classes! Can’t wait to try out #2. Thanks for creating these awesome activities Tony!
Shapegrams are really fun because you get to add colors to your shapes. It’s fun and challenging to get the shape in right position. I like how you learn to turn the shape by degrees. I’m looking forward to the next shapegram I hope it’s a hotel or city!
Students are totally rocking the house! Check out photos posted by teachers on Twitter!
Perfect for this online distant learning era!
Thanks Denise! I agree. Each Shapegram’s video draws students into the challenge with puns, demonstrations, and encouragement. I do the teaching through the video, making Shapegrams great for at home learning, station rotation, or independent work. 😁
I was REALLY excited to share Shapegrams with my public school students in Seattle. Unfortunately, they do not have Google/Gsuite accounts : (
Give yourself more space to draw by expanding your work area in Google Slides. Hide that filmstrip and tuck away those speaker notes. You can download this poster and use it as a reminder.
My students love Shapegrams! I would love to see more activities that focus on just a couple of skills at a time. I just copied the shapes for the house, colored them grey with a 1px line, and scrambled them so my 1st graders could practice putting the house together like a puzzle. Maybe you can call them “Puzzlers”. Tomorrow we will color each shape and maybe even remove the borders again.
Latoya, thanks so much for the suggestion! I originally targeted Shapegrams for grades 3 and up. But to reach younger learners, having “Puzzlers” is a great idea!