Symmetry

Today saw Waratah experimenting with shapes and symmetry.

As we had recently been learning about China, the discussion moved to tanagrams. We carried out some research on their origins, made our own from a square of paper, and attempted some silhouette puzzles - with little success! We had better luck copying puzzles that showed how the shapes were arranged.

Waratah felt that the 7 shapes was too restrictive, so we pulled out the pattern blocks, and let our creativity have free reign. This is Waratah's pattern block crab. We discussed its lack of symmetry, and Waratah pointed out that natural objects are rarely exactly symmetrical.

Mulga use some superhero and fire-engine powers to do some colour and shape sorting.

Here is Waratah's final design - a Chrysanthemum, like those he bought me for Mother's Day :)