Using the Shapes Song, students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition. The Shapes Song by Have Fun Teaching is a song that teaches the shapes. Shapes have names their made of angles and lines, there are flat shapes and solid shapes we see them all the…
Using the Shape Songs (Classic Video Collection), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
These Circle Cut Outs will quickly give you templates for classroom decoration or student activities.
Using the Square Song (MP3), students learn all about squares, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Circle Song, students will learn all about circles. A circle is a shape that goes around and around. It's like a pizza, and a cookie, a ring, and a coin. A circle is a shape that goes around and around. In this song, your kids will also draw…
This Shape Art Worksheet asks 1st grade students to count the circles, rectangles, triangles and hexagons hidden in a picture, then count the sides of four shapes. An answer key is included.
This triangle cut outs activity has children sort 12 shape cards and cut out big triangles. Made for Preschool to 2nd Grade, with an answer key included for quick checking.
These shapes word wall flash cards give PreK to 2nd grade children eleven flat shapes with bold names, plus a count-the-sides practice page and answer key included.
These shapes flash cards help PreK to 3rd grade students name 18 flat and solid shapes with fold-over self-check cards, a practice page, and an answer key included.
This Making Composite Shapes Worksheet helps 1st Grade students build and break apart shapes using squares, triangles, trapezoids and half-circles. An answer key is included, so shape practice takes no prep.
Using the Shape Songs (MP3 Album), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
This Looking at Composite Shapes Worksheet gives 1st graders four pictures built from squares and triangles and asks how many of each shape they see. Answer key included for quick, no-prep geometry practice.
This star cut outs activity lets PreK to 1st grade children count star points and sort star cards, then color and cut big stars. A practice page and answer key included.
Using the Shape Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
These 3D shapes word wall flash cards help preschool to 2nd grade students name six solid figures, with word wall cards, fold-over flash cards and a practice page. Answer key included.
This Classifying Shapes Worksheet has 1st graders count sides and corners, then sort nine numbered shapes into circle, square, and triangle columns. An answer key is included for fast checking.
Children sort shape cards into flat shapes and solid figures in this 2d 3d flat shapes solid figures activity for kindergarten to 2nd grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using the Circle Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about circles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Triangle Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about triangles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Shape Song (MP3), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Sides, corners and shape puzzles
First graders go beyond naming shapes. They learn what makes a shape that shape, called defining attributes: a triangle always has 3 straight sides and 3 corners, no matter its color or size. They put shapes together to make new ones, like two triangles making a square, and build 3D shapes from cubes and cones. They also split circles and rectangles into two and four equal parts and name them halves and fourths: 2 halves = 1 whole. The click moment comes when a child says "It's still a triangle, it's just upside down!"
Shapes click when kids build, break and talk about them. These moves do all three.
Give kids pattern blocks and ask them to make a hexagon using only triangles. Then try trapezoids. Building composite shapes shows that shapes can be combined, which leads straight to fractions.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withMaking Composite Shapes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Show a composite picture, like a house made of a square and triangle, and ask kids to name every shape they see. They outline each one in a different color. It trains eyes to see parts inside a whole.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withLooking at Composite Shapes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Flash 3D shape cards and have kids name the shape and one real object that matches. Quick daily checks keep cylinders and cones from mixing up.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it with3D Shapes Word WallFlash CardsOpen it →Shapes are basically art supplies. Let's create!
WorksheetsKids create a picture using only shapes, then count how many of each shape they used.
Open Shape Art Worksheet →
ActivitiesCut out triangles and see how many new shapes you can make by putting them together.
Open Triangle Cut Outs →
VideosSing about three sides and three corners, then hunt for triangles around the room.
Open Triangle Song (Original Music Video) →Teacher favorites right now: Shapes Song, Shape Songs (Classic Video Collection) and Circle Cut Outs.
First graders work with 2D shapes like circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, trapezoids and hexagons, and 3D shapes like cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres. They focus on what makes each shape unique.
Defining attributes are features that make a shape what it is, like the number of sides and corners. Color, size and direction are not defining attributes.
A composite shape is made by putting two or more shapes together. Two squares side by side make a rectangle, and six triangles make a hexagon.
Yes, a little! First graders split circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares and use the words halves, fourths and quarters.
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