What Does The Shape Say? & Quadrilateral Quotes!

 We've been working with shapes in math and focusing on 

writing dialogue and using 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.

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 more seriously fun ways to teach shapes,
grab a freebie while you're there, and see how we
animated our shape fox crafts and turned it into

 our very own class movie!

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

We've also been classifying shapes by their attributes and
working with quadrilaterals.  For more practice with
quotation marks we made quadrilateral characters
and students wrote quadrilateral quotes!

Well, that's it for me!  I'm off for date night and 

my favorite fish tacos!