I created a geometry By 1956BD

unit for vocabulary purposes and made it fun by including riddles, poems and songs.

We always have our geometry unit in the spring right before our state testing. My third graders get confused with all the geometry

vocabulary. So, this summer I designed a shape of the week unit. I searched the net and found a riddle for each shape to use on Monday. Then on Tuesday they just copy the definition into their math journals and draw a picture of it. On Wednesday we choral read a poem about the shape. Thursday we sing a song about the shape. I found lots of these online. On Friday I try to give

them time to do a craft using the shape. They have to read and follow the directions without help from me, so it is a good reading exercise as well.

The best thing is they are learning all the related terms as well. So far this year we have only studied the triangle, circle, square and trapezoid. But, besides the shapes they have learned parallel, vetex, vertcies, right angle, obtuse angle, acute angle, polygon, and quadrilateral.

They love the riddles and I found most of them online. The musical students like singing in class to learn and almost everyone enjoys the crafts. The crafts were the hardest to find and collect. They needed to be easy enough for third graders to read, plus clearly written. They also mostly have to be paper crafts so they are inexpensive.

Anyway, I hope this gives you an idea for your vocabulay unit.

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