Some children are making animal and bird faces on old boxes, cans and paper.

Let us Do

Use old boxes (cubes and cuboids) and bottles (cylinders) to do craft work. Draw faces on them.

What did you draw on their faces?

Jaya is building a rocket with her shapes. What shapes has she used?

How many of each?

Cube: ____________ $\quad$ Cuboid: _____________

Cone: _____________ $\quad$ Cylinder: _____________

What shape is between the red cuboid and yellow cuboid?

What shape is on the top of the orange cylinder?

What shape is under the pink cone?

Collect objects to make a house. Name the shapes and talk about their faces and edges. Which are straight and which are curved? Also describe how the shapes have been arranged. What part of the shapes can you see from a distance?

Devika went to a shop and bought a toy engine. Here is Devika’s toy engine. It has many parts. Count and fill.

________ red cylinder(s) $\quad$ ________ yellow cone(s)

________ grey cuboid(s) $\quad$ ________ blue cube(s)

Let us Discuss

Here are some more toys from the toy shop. They are made up of different shapes.

What shapes are used in these toys?

Jaya made some houses using different shapes.

Try to build such houses, towers, rockets, etc. using different shapes available around you.

Note that a cube is a special type of cuboid.

Lets us Play

Construct and describe

Ask students to sit in groups of four or five. In each group one student selects any three shapes and puts them together. The student, then describes the sequence of construction and the other students have to build the same without seeing the original one. Let children take turns and play the game in the group.

Example

The cylinder is on top of the cuboid. The cone is on top of the cylinder.

Let us Do

1. Can you find these shapes in the classroom? Fill in the with their names.

a. Name the shape that you find the most. __________

b. Name the shape that you find the least. __________

c. Name the objects that are made up of more than one shape. __________

2. Look at these shapes and answer the following questions

• Circle $\bigcirc $ the cubes.

• Put a tick $ \textcircled{\checkmark} $ against the shapes that are cones.

• Put a cross $ \textcircled{\times} $ against the shapes that are cylinders.

• Put a box $ \fbox{} $ around the cuboids.

3. Name the shapes

• with no edges. ______________

• with only flat faces. ______________

• with only curved faces. ______________

• with both straight and curved edges. ______________

• with both flat and curved faces. ______________

Teacher’s Note: Let students look for different shapes in the classroom. Ask them to share more examples of each shape. Talk about opposite faces in cubes, cuboids and cylinders. They can turn the shapes and observe them in different orientations.

4. Which shapes can you build?

5. Try to make these shapes using cubes.

Let us Play

There is a game along the border of this page. Roll the die and move the counter to the next picture associated with the number on the die (if possible without crossing the “Finish” square) and play the game with your friends. The one who reaches the finish mark first wins the game.

6. In what ways are these shapes the same? In what ways are they different?

7. Look at a die. The faces have 1 to 6 dots. What number is on:

• the face opposite number 1? _____________

• the face opposite number 2? _____________

• the face opposite number 3? _____________

• What pattern do you notice? _____________

8. In what order is this model built?

9. In how many different ways can you join 3 cubes? Try and see.

10. Name the shapes used in these models. Describe how the shapes are arranged to make them.

11. Use six dice to make the following shapes:

(a) A Cuboid $\quad$ (b) A tower $\quad$ (c) Any other shape of your choice