Shaping up - what i know so far

 Shaping Up is a Hurumanu about geometric shapes and reading. This is my first bog about geometry.

This is what I know so far about geometry:

• There are two dimensional (2D) shapes where we measure length and width. Examples of 2D shapes are: rectangles, triangle, circles and squares.
• There are three dimensional (3D) shapes where we measure length, width and height. Examples of 3D shapes are: cube, cylinder, sphere and pyramids.

2D Shapes

3D Shapes

These are the different parts of a 3D shape:

• edge
• face
• vertex

Reading: Activating Prior Knowledge

When we read something new we are often reminded of things we already know about the text. It might be something we've done before, read about, seen on TV, or seen at the movies. This is called prior knowledge. 

We activate our prior knowledge to help us understand the text better.

We were reading a story called "Jump!" about some people who went bungee jumping. Mr Mitchell had done bungee jumping before with his 33 year old son. He said he wanted to do it but when he got the edge he got so scared that he did not what to do it. This gave us some prior knowledge about "Jump!" which made it easier to understand.