Using the Shape Songs (Classic Video Collection), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
This Identifying the Name of Shapes Worksheet helps 2nd graders choose the correct name for each 2D shape, from circles to hexagons. Answer key included—a quick, no-prep geometry practice for home or class.
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…
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 Identifying Shapes Worksheet asks 2nd graders to name eight figures from a word bank, then explain a six-sided shape. Answer key included, making it a quick no-prep geometry review.
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.
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 (Original Music Video), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
This 3 Dimensional Shapes Worksheet has 2nd Grade students match six solid figures to their names and name three everyday objects. An answer key is included, so practice is quick to check.
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.
This making new shapes activity helps K to 2nd grade students build and name composite shapes with cut-out pieces and self-check cards, 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 Shape Song (MP3), 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.
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!
Count the sides, crack the shape!
In 2nd grade, kids stop naming shapes by how they look and start naming them by their parts. They count sides and corners: 6 sides + 6 corners = hexagon. They learn triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons and hexagons, draw shapes from clues like "four sides, one square corner," and meet 3D shapes like cubes by counting faces. They also split shapes into equal parts, halves, thirds and fourths. The click moment is when kids realize a tipped-over square is still a square, because the sides didn't change.
Shapes are easiest to learn with eyes and hands. These moves go from naming to real reasoning.
Play a shape song and have kids trace each shape in the air as it's named. Pause and ask, "How many sides was that?" The song gives the names, and the tracing gives the attributes.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withShape Songs (Classic Video Collection)VideosOpen it →Give a clue like "five sides, five corners" and kids draw it on a whiteboard. Compare the drawings. They all look different but they're all pentagons! That shows kids it's the parts that count.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withDrawing Shapes By Attributes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Flash a shape card and kids hold up fingers for the number of sides before saying the name. Counting first stops quick guesses and builds the habit of checking attributes.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withShapes Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Shapes are everywhere, and kids love to find them.
ActivitiesKids cut out triangles and combine them into new shapes. Two triangles can make a square!
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WorksheetsKids hunt for cubes, cylinders and cones around the room. Is a tissue box a cube or a rectangular prism?
Open 3 Dimensional Shapes Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids feel a shape in a bag and describe its sides and corners. Partners guess the shape.
Open Matching Shape Attributes Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Shape Songs (Classic Video Collection), Identifying the Name of Shapes Worksheet and Shapes Song.
Second graders learn triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes. They identify and draw shapes based on their attributes, like the number of sides, angles and faces.
A quadrilateral is any shape with four straight sides and four corners. Squares, rectangles, rhombuses and trapezoids are all quadrilaterals.
Have kids count the sides and corners of every shape they see. Ask "How do you know?" instead of "What is it?" so they explain using attributes, not just looks.
2D shapes are flat, like a square drawn on paper. 3D shapes are solid and have faces, edges and vertices, like a cube or a ball.
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