Cones

28 Pages·2013·5.112 MB·English

by  Nancy Furstinger

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Cones
by NaNcy FurstiNger
Published by the child’s World® about the author
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Acknowledgments
the child’s World®: Mary Berendes, Publishing Director
for inspiring shapes in nature
Red Line Editorial: Editorial direction
The Design Lab: Design as she hikes with her big
Photographs ©: Shutterstock Images, cover (left), cover pooches. She is the author of
(bottom right), 1 (left), 1 (bottom right), 3 (left), 5,
6, 10, 12; Valdis Torms/Shutterstock Images, cover more than 100 books.
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Images, cover (top right), 1 (top right), 3 (right),
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Bruce Raynor/Shutterstock Images, 17; Constantine
Androsoff/Shutterstock Images, 18; Le Do/Shutterstock
Images, 20; Kotenko Oleksandr/Shutterstock Images,
21; Andrey Cherepanov/Shutterstock Images, 22
Copyright © 2014 by The Child’s World®
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
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without written permission from the publisher.
ISBN 9781623239817
LCCN 2013947240
Printed in the United States of America
Mankato, MN
November, 2013
PA02194
Contents
Writing with Icing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What Does a Cone Look Like? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Cones at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Cones at Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ice Cream Cones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Living in a Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Catching Wind in a Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Cones in Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Hands-on Activity: Create a Clown Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Books and Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Writing
With iCing
You baked a delicious
cake for your friend’s
birthday . Now you
need to decorate it . You
fill up an icing tube
with chocolate icing .
You slowly squeeze
the icing out of the
pointy tip and write
your friend’s name .
Swoamvye liicneinsg otru bset atrip sp acttaenr nmsa. ke
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wnBiothilso ewtmh eian ktteoipr y. coItuu’str ao fcfo.ne
Now your cake is ready for the
birthday party! Don’t forget
to pass out the party hats so
everyone can celebrate .
Did you notice how
the shape of the icing tube
tip matches the shape of
the party hats? Both of
these shapes are cones .
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How many cones can you count in this
picture? Cones have length, width, and height.
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What Does a Cone Look Like?
Cones are all around us . Cones are shapes that have
three dimensions . They aren’t flat . Shapes that are
flat, like a circle, have only two dimensions: length
and width . These flat shapes are also called plane
shapes or 2-D shapes .
Shapes like cones that have three dimensions
are called 3-D shapes . We can measure all three
dimensions of a cone: length, width, and height .
3-D shapes are also called solid shapes .
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How can we recognize a cone? Look closely .
A cone has a flat, round bottom called a base . If you
trace around the cone’s base, you draw a circle!
The flat circle forms one face of the cone . A face
is a two-dimensional flat surface .
Each cone has a curved surface as well . The
cone’s curved surface wraps around the circle . This
curving side forms an edge where it comes together
with the circular base . The curved surface also forms
a corner that is shaped like a point . This corner is
called a vertex .
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