What Does The Shape Say? & Quadrilateral Quotes!

 

We’ve been working with shapes in math and focusing on writing dialogue with the correct use of quotation marks. Have you ever noticed that when you start teaching about these

that suddenly, “every” “single” “word” “gets” “them”? Ha!  As we practiced identifying shapes and their attributes, here’s how we tied in our writing and practiced the correct use of quotation marks. Using the popular What Does the Fox Say? song I made a  What Does the SHAPE Say? chart that also served as a game board.

 

 

 

I gave each group a speech bubble with dialogue that described the attributes of a shape. Students worked together to match the dialogue to the shape.

 

Next, we did a variation of “I Have, Who Has.”  I passed out cards with the name of each shape and students took turns reading the clues in the speech bubbles. Whoever had the name of the shape glued it with repositionable glue sticks to the chart to label the shape.

 

 

 

We practiced further in our attribute books.  Students used quotation marks and wrote from the shape’s point of view to describe the shape without using the word SAID!

For some Friday afternoon math fun we made these shape fox crafts.

 

Visit this post to see how we used ChatterPix to animate our shape fox crafts then turned it into our very own class movie! Be sure to download the shapes freebie while you’re there too!

Find the resource I used for the chart parts, attributes booklets, and shape fox writing craft in What Does the SHAPE Say?  here.

 

Here’s another fun activity we did while working with quadrilaterals.

 

 

 For more practice with quotation marks students wrote quadrilateral quotations!