Y1: Investigating 2D Shape

We are learning about 2D shapes.

We have named  and described a square, rectangle, circle and triangle. 

We have also been considering features like how many sides a shape has, how many corners and if sides are curved or straight. 

As well as this we have been thinking about how a square and rectangle are the same and different! 

Please support your child at home by talking about shapes in the environment.  E.g the window pane may be a rectangle, a road sign might be a circle or triangle or shape. 

We will also be making 2D shape pictures and spotting shapes on a walk around school. 

For information

2D shapes have only two dimensions, such as width and height, but no thickness and so they cannot be picked up and held.

Shapes like squares, circles, triangles, etc. are two-dimensional or "2D" shapes.

If an individual shape can be picked up then it is three-dimensional or "3D".

Sometimes people think that very flat shapes are 2D, simply because they are so thin. This is wrong. Any shape that can be held, even a very flat and thin one, is actually 3D whereas a shape that appears, for example, on a poster, in a book or is drawn onto a piece of paper is 2D.