Reflective and Rotational Symmetry

We have been exploring symmetry.

We made some artwork based on Reuben Patterson's glitter work. Lots of the children had visited the 'Dotty Room' at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. We made little circle artworks using reflective and rotational symmetry to create a cool pattern with golden paper.

Then we worked with our thinking partners to explore rotational symmetry. We sorted different pictures and tried to work out the order of rotational symmetry each picture had (if it had rotational symmetry). Some people were very interested in shapes like circles that are the same all the way around. Should we say they have an order of 1? or even none?

Mrs Walker told us a circle has degrees and some people are interested to find out more about this. We will have to do another investigation next term into this. Great thinking Room 6.

My Place

Thank you to all of the families who came to the morning tea with the residents of Summerset. After the morning tea we took a photo of the class with their finished 'My Place' historical picture books. Sara (Toitu Museum Educator) came to visit us last Friday. She was very impressed with our work and has asked for some copies of the children's work to go on the Toitu website.

Here are some happy memories from our learning around our exploration of 'Perspective and Perception'. The children have gained so much from experiences that required them to put themselves in other people's shoes (or heads).