Sea Stars

For math we began making a Sea Star class quilt.  We started by noticing different mathematical patterns that we can find in quilts, such as this one.

We also read a poem about sea stars and researched cool facts about them.

We learned that sea stars regenerate their arms, they aren't like fish because they don't have brains or backbones, and that when they eat, their stomach comes out of their body!  We found a youtube video to prove this last fact:

Next, we each created a Sea Star quilt block.

Then we decorated a piece of paper with dot painters.  These will be the design papers from which we'll cut our sea stars.  

Sea Stars will be a perfect way to notice counting by 5s patterns!

Five...

Ten...

Fifteen...

Stay tuned to see what you notice about our sea star quilt!

What are you thinking about sea stars?