February 23

 

We are learning about regular and irregular polygons in our new geometry unit in math. Ask your child to tell you the difference between regular and irregular polygons. Look around the house to see if you can find these shapes. How may sides does an octagon have, what about a pentagon? We started a very beautiful art project using polygons. 

In your child's backpack, you will find  student work about stable and unstable structures. Ask your child what they learned during our science lesson. Our new science unit is about building stable structures and using different materials. 



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