make, compare and classify familiar shapes; recognise familiar shapes and objects in the environment, identifying the similarities and differences between them

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• classifying a collection of shapes, including different circles, ovals, regular and irregular shapes, triangles and quadrilaterals, saying what is the same about the shapes in a group and what is different between the groups
• selecting a shape from a small collection of shapes inside a bag and describing the shape by feel, so that others can name the shape and give reasons for their choice
• comparing the different objects that can be built out of the same number of blocks or centi-cubes and discussing the differences between them