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!
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: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (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: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (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!
Open Triangle Cut Outs →
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: Shapes Song, Square Song (MP3) and Circle 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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