The second is because it’s another time I can squeeze in more learning! What I do is call on a student and give them a card to sort. The first is so the whole class isn’t lined up at the same time to wash their hands, which is just asking for crazy behaviors to occur. I always plan a transition activity for that time for several reasons. We have snack after music and movement time. Shape sort! Transition activities are the perfect time to do a quick assessment or learning check. And you guessed it, it’s great for their fine motor, too! Perfect for sorting, lacing, and linking together. It has foam shape beads, shape chains and translucent shapes. This shape sensory table is filled with shaped manipulatives and a few cupcake pans for sorting. Try using magnet bingo chips to cover the graph then using a magnet wand at the end to make the game even more exciting. It’s also a great opportunity to talk about more, less and equal to. Shapes graph it! This is another fun shapes game that my students love. I love these translucent spinners for my math games. Shape cover up! Cover up is a fun game to practice matching shape! Students spin the spinner and cover the matching shape. It’s also great to build those little fine motor muscles too! To introduce this activity, I put it out for table time as an arrival activity. Students can make the shapes with loom bands on the geoboard. Geoboard shape cards! I put these shape geoboard cards in my geoboard basket. After the shape theme is over, put the shape building cards in with your manipulatives or STEM drawers! Students use the blocks to create the shape on the card. Shape Building Blocks Cards! This is a close up of the building block shape cards. This exploration table gives students the opportunity to talk about, touch, feel, build, and manipulate shapes with a peer or independently. Super simple! The basket is filled with real objects and shape cards students can sort. It’s just a poster board I made with tape. There is a sorting board with shape flashcards on top. The wall has shape posters with real photographs, the back of the table is lined with shape building cards and manipulatives and translucent shapes. In the discovery center, I set up a shapes exploration table. In the Discovery Center: Learning about math and science Don’t forget that a circle doesn’t have any sides or vertices! Use those big vocabulary words! Feel, touch and count the number of sides and vertices a shape has. When teaching your little learners about shapes, it’s important to teach about the sides and vertices too. Toothpick Shapes are a fun and interactive way to learn shapes! Students can make shapes with toothpicks and play dough or marshmallows. I love this 2D & 3D shape building set! It’s a ton of fun and comes with shape cards. Students need to be playing, manipulating and creating with shapes all over the classroom, not just in the math center! Pattern blocks, shape cookies, and shape magnet blocks are distributed into various classroom centers. When setting up a shape activity, the first thing I do is go into my supply closet and pull out all my shape games, manipulatives, and puzzles. These activities will work for all types of classrooms and teaching styles! Grab your lesson plan binder, and let’s get started! Want all shape printables now? You can find them in my Shapes Unit on TPT HERE. I’m here to share with you my favorite, go-to 2D shapes activities! Some teachers may do a shapes theme or unit (like me), some may do a shape of the week, and some sprinkle in shape activities all year long. These shapes use the exact same colors as my color flashcards too.Learning about 2D shapes is a must for every early childhood classroom. Feel free to cut off the word part and use the two separate pieces as a matching game for older students. Now you can play matching games with children as young as 2 years old!Įvery card includes the shape word in easy to read letters. Teach basic colors, shapes, and basic matching skills with these FREE shape flashcards! The cards offer teachers the choice to make small or large flashcards! A great suggestion is to print the set twice at the same size and then cut out the shape part of one of the sets. The easier shapes are in simple colors, and the advanced shapes are in more difficult colors. These simple shape flashcards are easy to recognize and full of simple and advanced colors. The pack also contains each shape word written in easy to read bold lettering. Pack 1 comes with shapes that also correspond with the free color flashcards pack.
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