Area and Perimeter

Area and Perimeter

Do you have square tiles on the floor inside your school building?  If you do, you are in luck!  This week we had area and perimeter as one of the skills in our Everyday Math book.  Well, one day of area and perimeter will not let those two concepts stick inside the little brains.  So, I taped off shapes on the floor.  You can see the pictures below to get ideas.  I created 7 shapes and broke my class into equal teams.  The first day we did perimeter and the second day we did area.  To make it work, my class had to raise their hand when they thought they had the correct area.  I went to initial their worksheet when the team was ready to move to another shape.  Two teams could not be at the same shape at the same time.  Also, if they were loud in the hall, they got one warning, then they had a team time out.  Thankfully, they didn't get to this point.  My pictures provide a few shape examples.  Grab the free worksheet. Everyone in the building was intrigued by the shapes on the floor.  Some knew right away that we were measuring.  The kindergarten class thought they were fun shapes to walk on and jump through.  Even the secretary had couldn't help but ask what we were using the shapes for.