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.

We had to cut squares into smaller triangles to make sure the shapes fit.

Then we decorated a sea star pattern with dot painters.  

The finished quilt gave us a lot to talk about.

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

Five...

Ten...

Fifteen...

Next, we logged into GoSoapBox to backchannel about the patterns that we noticed in our sea star quilt.

After we read about the patterns everyone noticed, we explained our thinking further.

What patterns do you notice on our sea star quilt?