- Hi friends at home.

Look what I have today.

I have a mystery box, and inside this mystery box is an object, and I'm going to use my five senses or some of them to try to figure out what shape the object is.

Let's see.

Hmm, thinking about what I'm feeling, I feel 1, 2, 3, 4 straight sides.

Let me see what else?

1, 2, 3, and 4 corners.

Hmm, I think I have an idea what shape this is.

Let's take a look.

I was right.

It has 1, 2, 3, 4, straight sides and 1, 2, 3, 4 corners.

This sounds like it's a square.

What do you think?

You're right, this pattern notes is in the shape of a square.

Did you guys notice how I used some of my five senses and thought about some clues to help me figure out what shape this is?

Well, guess what?

We can learn more about the world around us by using our five senses, just like I did with this mystery object here.

Hmm, what are our five senses?

Well, just like you saw, I used my sense of touch and my sense of sight.

Those are two of them.

Some other senses that we have are our sense of hearing, we use our ears for that.

We have our sense of smell, we use our nose.

And our sense of taste with our mouth.

So those are all of our five senses.

Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.

Friends, you did such an awesome job helping me figure out what shape was hiding inside my mystery box.

I've got another one for you.

Remember, let's use our sense of touch and our sense of sight to help figure out what shapes hiding inside of here.

Let's give it a try.

Hmm.

Ooh, this one's different.

This one feels round.

There are no corners.

Hmm.

No straight sides.

I think it's a circle.

Let's check and see if I'm right.

It is.

We know this is a circle because it's round and curved and there's no straight sides or corners on it.

Did you see how my sense of sight and my sense of touch helps me find some clues to figure out what shape this object is, just like I did before with my pad of notes?

Okay, now friends, let's play a game together.

I'm gonna ask you guys to be some shape detectives, and you're gonna have to use your sense of sight to help me decide if the object I show you is like a triangle.

Let's first try to remember what do we know about triangles?

Well, we know that triangles have three straight sides and they also have three corners.

And another word for corners is angles.

So I'm gonna hold up an object and I want you to remember, use your really good sense of sight and tell me, is this like a triangle?

Let's look at our first one.

This is a pretend piece of cheese.

Let's think.

Hmm.

Triangles have three straight sides and three corners.

I feel three straight sides, and I feel three corners.

I can see that too with my sense of sight.

What do you think?

Do you think this is a triangle?

Hmm?

I think so too.

Great job.

All right, let's do another one.

Take a look at this.

This is a pretend piece of pizza, some of our play food here at home.

What do you notice about it?

Is this a triangle?

Let's check.

Remember, triangles have three straight sides and three corners.

I see one, two straight sides.

I'm not sure about this one.

What do you think?

Looks a little curved to me.

Hmm.

Maybe this one isn't exactly a triangle.

Because of this curved side, I think it's like a triangle, but not quite.

Let's do one more.

This is a pretend piece of cake.

What do you think?

Let's use our sense of sight and let's see.

One, two, hmm, another curved side.

I'm not quite sure if this is a exact triangle.

It's like a triangle.

It only has one, two, only two straight sides though.

I don't think this is quite a triangle.

Okay friends, now I'm gonna show you another shape and I'm gonna need you to use your shape detective skills, your sense of sight to help me figure out if the shape is like a rectangle.

Let's remember what a rectangle is.

Here's an example.

This is a rectangle.

Rectangles have four straight sides and four corners.

1, 2, 3, 4.

So let's see if we can put our detective skills together and see if the shapes I show you are rectangles or not.

Here's my very first one.

I bet you guys know what this is.

It's a phone.

What do you think?

Is this a rectangle?

Hmm.

It has 1, 2, 3, 4 straight sides with two that are longer on top and two shorter on the sides.

Let's check the corners.

One.

Hmm?

Two.

Wait a minute, I noticed something about these corners.

This has a curved corner.

I remember that rectangles, because they have straight sides the corner comes together.

I'm not sure if this is an exact rectangle because it has curved corners.

This might not be a real rectangle.

Hmm.

Hmm, I have another object.

Let's look at it.

[chill music] What do you think?

Let's use our detective skills.

Let's count.

1, 2, 3, 4.

It's got four straight sides.

Let's check the corners.

[chill music] Hmm.

I think I see what you guys are noticing.

This has curved corners also.

This is not a real rectangle.

It's like a rectangle.

But without those straight corners, we can't call this one a rectangle.

Last one.

We're back to this shape.

What do you notice?

It's like a rectangle.

It has four straight sides and four corners.

Do you guys think that this one is a rectangle?

Hmm?

Did you know that squares are a special rectangle?

They have four straight sides and four corners.

Squares are a special type of rectangle.

Friends, can you find anything around you that is a square?

I bet you can.

So today we learned that we can use our senses to learn more about the world around us, like the shapes of objects.

I hope that next time you might be playing at home in the park or at school, you can also use your senses like your sense of sight or your sense of touch to learn more about the things around you.

You might notice some shapes like we did today.

See you next time.