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The Great Shape

Mystery!
What shape are these?

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What do you notice about rectangles?
How many sides do they have?
How many corners do they have?
Are they open, or closed?
Let’s make square corners!
What do you notice about the corners of a
rectangle?
Are these rectangles too?

1 2 3
What shape is this?

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What do you notice about squares?
How many sides do they have?
How many corners do they
have?
Are they open, or closed?
Are these squares?

1 2 3
Are these shapes the same?
Both:

-Have four sides

-Have four
square corners

-Are closed
Squares are a special
kind of rectangle
because all of the sides
are the same.
The difference

Most rectangles have two long sides, and


two short sides. In squares, all of the
sides are the same.
How are you
feeling?
Open your books to
page 215-216
Finished Early?
Grab some scrap paper and draw a picture using
only squares and rectangles!

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