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 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…
Using the Shape Songs (MP3 Album), students learn all about shapes, 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!
Using the Circle Song (MP3), students learn all about circles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Triangle Song (MP3), students learn all about triangles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Parallelogram Song (MP3), students learn all about parallelograms, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Polygon Song (MP3), students learn all about polygons, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Hexagon Song (MP3), students learn all about hexagons, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Pentagon Song (MP3), students learn all about pentagons, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Rectangle Song (MP3), students learn all about rectangles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Rhombus Song (MP3), students learn all about rhombus, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Octagon Song (MP3), students learn all about octagons, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Trapezoid Song (MP3), students learn all about trapezoids, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Circles, squares and shapes everywhere!
Kindergarten geometry is all about naming and noticing shapes. Kids learn circles, squares, triangles, rectangles and hexagons, plus solid shapes like cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres. They learn that shapes can be flat or solid, and that a triangle is still a triangle even when it's turned or a different size. They use position words like above, below and next to. The click moment is when kids point out the window and shout, "That sign is an octagon!"
Little learners need to see, touch and sing about shapes. These moves do all three.
Play a shapes song and hold up a cutout of each shape as it's named. Kids point to a matching shape in the room. The song gives the names, and the hunt connects them to the real world.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withShapes SongSongsOpen it →Print a cube template and help kids fold it into a solid shape. Count the flat squares on each side together. Turning a flat shape into a solid one helps kids understand 2D and 3D.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withPaper Cube TemplateWorksheetsOpen it →Kids trace, then draw circles, squares and triangles on their own. Talk about each one: "How many sides? How many corners?" Drawing builds both shape sense and pencil control.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withDrawing Circle, Triangle, Square Shapes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Shapes are perfect for cutting, sorting and building.
ActivitiesKids glue triangle cutouts together to make a picture. Is it a tree? A rocket? A fish?
Open Triangle Cut Outs →
WorksheetsKids sort shape cards into piles, then explain how they sorted them. By sides? By color?
Open Sorting Shapes Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids test real objects like a ball, a block and a cup to see which shapes roll, stack or slide.
Open Flat and Solid Shapes Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Shapes Song, Square Song (MP3) and Circle Song.
Most kindergartners learn circles, squares, triangles, rectangles and hexagons, plus solid shapes like cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres.
2D shapes are flat, like a drawing on paper. 3D shapes are solid and can be picked up, like a ball or a block.
Use real objects, songs and drawing. Go on shape hunts around the house or classroom, and talk about sides and corners.
Position words describe where things are, like above, below, beside, in front of, behind and next to. Kids use them to describe shapes and objects.
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