Big Learning in Junior Infants: Exploring 3D Shapes! 🧊⚪
Junior Infants have been busy, busy, busy learning all about 3D shapes, and what an exciting journey it has been!
We focused especially on cubes and spheres, carefully exploring their properties. The children became fantastic shape detectives as they learned how to count edges and corners, identify flat and curved faces, and talk confidently about what makes each shape special.
Our learning didn’t stop in the classroom — we went on a 3D shape hunt around our school environment! The children were thrilled to discover cubes and spheres hiding in plain sight and loved pointing out real-life examples of the shapes we had been learning about.
The highlight of the week was our class challenge: Could we build the biggest cube possible using construction straws? The answer was a very enthusiastic YES! Working together as a team, we planned, built, adjusted, and problem-solved… and built some more. Our cube grew so big that we even had to borrow extra straws from another class to finish it!
This hands-on learning helped the children develop their maths skills, teamwork, and confidence, all while having lots of fun. Well done to our brilliant Junior Infants — future engineers and mathematicians in the making! ⭐
