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CONCEPT NOTES : LINES, SHAPES AND SOLID

LINE:

Real Life Examples A line is a long thin mark made by a pen, pencil, chalk etc.

v Line and shapes are TYPES OF LINES:

useful in architecture and
carpentry. Lines are of two types:
v We see different shapes
all around us. v Straight lines    
Eg: football, book, pencil

v Curved lines      

Book Everything around us is made of curved lines or straight

lines or a combination of both lines.

SHAPES AND SOLIDS

All things around us have shapes. There are 2 types of
shapes:-
Football v Flat Shape
v Solid Shape

Square, circle, triangle and rectangle are flat shapes.

Pencil Sphere, cone, cylinder, cube and cuboid are solid shapes.
FLAT SHAPES

triangle square circle

rectangle oval

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SOLID SHAPES

cube cone cylinder

A poem on Shape

sphere cuboid I am Cera circle

Watch me turn round and
FLAT SHAPES round.
I am not straight and I don’t
Squares, triangles, rectangles, circles, and lines can be
bend.
drawn on a piece of paper.
Squire Square is my name.
Most of them have sides and corners but circle has
neither side nor corner. My four sides are just the
same.
1. SQUARE: I am Danny Diamond
I am like a kite
Square has four sides and four corners.
Whose corners are pulled light
Ricky rectangle is my name
My four sides are not the same
Two are short and two are long
Count my sides, come along.
I am tommy triangle
Count my sides
There’s 1-2-3.

2. RECTANGLE:
A rectangle has four sides and four corners.
v The longer side is called length.
v The shorter side is called breadth.

Eg: Chess board.

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3. TRIANGLE:
A triangle has three sides and three corners.

Eg: Door.

4. CIRCLE:
A circle is round and has no side.

Eg: A pizza slice.

5. OVAL:
An oval has no sides.

Eg: A circular plate.

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