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 Circle Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about circles, 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 Triangle Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about triangles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Square Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about squares, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Rectangle Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about rectangles, 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 (Original Music Video), students learn all about parallelograms, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Trapezoid Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about trapezoids, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy video!
Using the Parallelogram Song (MP3), students learn all about parallelograms, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Polygon Song (Original Music Video), students learn all about polygons, 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!
Circles, squares and a whole lot of corners
Shapes start simple and get smarter every year. Little ones name circles, squares, triangles, rectangles and ovals, then learn the difference between flat 2D shapes and solid 3D shapes like cubes, spheres, cones and cylinders. In 1st and 2nd grade, kids count sides and corners (vertices) and meet pentagons and hexagons: hexagon = 6 sides, 6 vertices. Older students sort quadrilaterals and classify shapes by their angles and parallel sides. The click comes when kids realize a square turned on its corner is still a square, not a "diamond"!
Kids learn shapes by seeing them, touching them and finding them everywhere.
Play the Shapes Song and have kids draw each shape in the air as it is sung. Follow up by tracing the shapes with a finger on the carpet or desk. Movement plus music makes the names stick.
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 →Give kids a pile of shape cut-outs in different sizes and turned different ways. They sort them by number of sides, not by how they look. Kids discover that a skinny triangle and a wide one are both triangles.
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 withSorting Shapes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Flash a shape card and have kids name it and say how many sides it has. Mix in rotated and stretched shapes so they don't rely on just one picture. Quick rounds every day build fast recognition.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withShapes Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Shapes are perfect for art, building and hunting games.
WorksheetsKids build a robot, house or animal using only shapes, then count how many of each they used.
Open Shape Art Worksheet →
WorksheetsCut out and fold the paper cube template. Kids count the faces, edges and corners on their own 3D shape.
Open Paper Cube Template →
WorksheetsKids hunt for polygons around the room and decide which ones have the most sides.
Open Polygons Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Shapes Song, Square Song (MP3) and Circle Song.
Most preschoolers learn circle, square, triangle and rectangle first, then oval, star and heart. By kindergarten, many also start naming 3D shapes like cubes and spheres.
2D shapes are flat, like a circle drawn on paper. 3D shapes are solid and take up space, like a ball (sphere) or a box (cube).
Vertices are the corners where two sides meet. A triangle has 3 vertices and a square has 4. On 3D shapes, vertices are the points where edges meet.
Go on a shape hunt: clocks are circles, doors are rectangles, slices of pizza are triangles. Building with blocks and cutting shapes from paper are great too.
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