Inferencing

'All About Me Bags"

In our "All About Me Bags" we bring 4 things from home that describes me. Here are some items that we have put into our bags. We use our inferencing skills to find out more about our classmates 

What do we know about Toby?

What do we know about Richmond?

What do we know about Ben?

TERM FOUR - WELCOME BACK...

Tessellation

This week we have been looking at tessellation. We now know that tessellation is when we cover a surface with a pattern of flat shapes so that there are no overlaps or gaps. We brainstormed where in our world we see tessellation patterns:

pathways, bathroom tiles, ceiling of the classroom, beehives, 

In groups we had to work together to figure out which shapes can tessellate. This is what we think about tessellating shapes.

Shapes tessellate because if you put them together there will be no gaps. To tessellate you need shapes with at least 2 corners and they should be the same size.
Toby, Jordan, Sophia

These shapes tessellate because some had corners, they were the same size and the same shape.
Faith, Shabeera, Richmond

To tessellate your shape has to have corners and be the same size. If a shape has all curved edges it will not tessellate.
Ben, Lavinia, Abigail and Joshua 

If a shape is all curved on the edges then it is not a tessellating shape.
Jacob, Manisha and Kowhai

The triangles, cylinders and T-shapes all tessellated because there where no gaps and they were all the same size.
Bruno's Group

Shapes that have curved corners don't tessellate. Shapes have to have corners because if they don't they won't tessellate. Jame's Group

Jacob wondered if you could use two shapes to create a tessellating pattern? Mmmm... I wonder?