Description and Goals:

Students

• Sort shapes
• Match shapes by comparing attributes of the shape (roundness, number of sides, number of corners)
• Identify and describe the attributes of each shape
• Trace the five basic shapes
• Cut the outlines of the five basic shapes
• Form shapes using a variety of means (in sand, with playdough, with yarn, with rubber bands, etc.)
• Find shapes in everyday objects

Close Ups:
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File Folder Games

Shapes All Around Search For Shapes Shape Sorters Super Shapes

All file folder games, above, are from
File Folder Games For Reading and Math: Kindergarten Book 1
by Karen Finch, Carson Dellossa Publishing, 1990 (CD 2002)

Box It Bag It Games

Shape Spinners and Scissors Shape Spin and Trace

Both shape games, above, are from the Box-It Bag-It Math book
Shapes by Donna Burk, The Math Learning Center, 1988.

Teacher Made Materials

Foam Shapes   Shape Sort Shapes To Sort PDF

Purchased Items

Shape Flash Cards

More Ideas to Add to the Shapes Tub:

Create shape rubbings
Form shapes from playdough
Given a variety of shapes, students create shape pictures
Form shapes on geoboards with the rubberbands
Play shape memory
Find shapes in the following children's books

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
So Many Circles, So Many Squares by Tana Hoban
The Shape of Things by Dale Ann Dodds
Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
Brown Rabbits Shape Book by Alan Baker
Circus Shapes by Stuart Murphy
Shape Spotters by Megan Bryant
Sea Shapes by Suse Mac Donald
I See Shapes by Marcia Fries

Shape Poems - from CanTeach

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