The purpose of this Warm-up is to elicit ideas about the features of a quilt, which will be useful when students create a border to go around their piece of a class quilt in a later activity. While students may notice and wonder many things about this image, the fact that the quilt is made up of many different pieces and that there is a border around each piece are the important discussion points.

• “What shapes do you see? How do you know it is a ____?” (I see a square. I know it is a square because all four sides are the same length.)
• “A patchwork quilt is a blanket made by putting together small pieces of cloth that have different designs. Today we are going to make a patchwork quilt out of paper rectangles.”