Dodecahedrons

It has been a busy first week of school.  After just 6 days, it already feels like we are well into the swing of things.  We spent some time doing 'get to know you' activities, including creating group dodecahedrons.  The kids had fun trying to figure out THAT word, especially when I wrote it in cursive for them!

Students worked together in groups of 4 to complete one dodecahedron.  First, each group worked together to complete the 4 sides with questions.  Then, each child in the group completed two sides independently (one with their name/picture, and one about what makes them unique).  Each group ended up with a total of 12 sides.

Once all of the sides were completed, students worked together to cut out the circles, and fold on the lines with the tabs being folded up.  Some students found that they were better cutters, and others were better at folding, so they had little production lines set up.  Once they had all of the sides folded, I went around and stapled the tabs together to create the 3 dimensional shape.

The day after I hung them up, two of my students were doing read to someone and reading a fact book about insects.  It was an interesting conversation to listen to as one of them realized that the compound eyes of the dragonfly looked similar to our dodecahedrons.

If you would like a copy of the dodecahedron, you can find it on my TpT store.