{"id":542713,"date":"2010-04-24T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2737"},"modified":"2010-04-24T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T19:28:56","slug":"teaching-kindergarten-math-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542713","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Kindergarten Math: Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>The following Instructional Resource Set focuses on the recognition and mastery of two dimensional geometric shapes at the Kindergarten level.\u00a0 In its entirety, this comprehensive plan places emphasis specifically on Virginia Standards of Learning\u00a0 K.11-K12.\u00a0 With these resources, in addition to lesson plans and activities, children will learn to recognize the four basic geometric shapes (circle, square, rectangle, and triangle) but are also faced with less traditional shapes such as diamonds, hearts, octagons, and ovals.\u00a0 Children also learn to compare sizes of geometric shapes and positions relative to one another.\u00a0 The books, websites, and online activities listed below aid in teaching these concepts to students. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Text Annotations: Children\u2019s Literature<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes<\/a><\/u> <\/a>by Tana Hoban<\/p>\n

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Hoban is well known for her wordless, yet instructionally brilliant children\u2019s books and this book is no exception!\u00a0 If children have never been introduced to one of these unique books, they will be in for a treat as they sit down to this one.\u00a0 Children can become an author, putting their own words to each page; or, teachers can be the author, taking children which he\/ she reads to on a geometric journey.\u00a0 Each page includes interesting and beautiful urban landscapes, portraits, and still life, thus relaying to children that shapes are all around them, every day, in every way!\u00a0 Children will have fun studying each page, looking hard to find shapes within each one.\u00a0 A plethora of circles, stars, triangles, trapezoids and more are embedded within each photograph.\u00a0 The great thing is that before the book even begins, Hoban provides readers with a key of shapes to look for as they delve into\u00a0each page.\u00a0 A shape lesson can begin to take form before the teacher and the students even turn to the first page!<\/p>\n

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When a Line Bends, A Shape Begins<\/a><\/u>\u00a0by Rhonda Gowler Greene<\/p>\n

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How does a shape even become a shape?\u00a0 Where many shape books for children never really answer that question, this book serves as a phenomenal introduction to the line being the basis for all shapes.\u00a0 Perhaps a line is a jump rope laid out straight, or lots of little black ants in a row?\u00a0 Whatever it is, when it bends, a shape begins!\u00a0 Through pictures and catchy rhyming verse, the traditional square, circle, triangle, diamond, rectangle, octagon, and oval are presented for children.\u00a0 Even the less traditional star, heart, and crescent get some attention too!\u00a0 No matter how popular, every shape has its own verse and double-page spread loaded with visual examples for children to see. This book could be utilized as an enhancement to any geometric shape lesson, or simply a really cute read-aloud with which children will easily fall in love.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mouse Shapes<\/a><\/u> <\/a>by Ellen Stoll Walsh<\/p>\n

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Ellen Stoll Walsh, once again, proves she is a master of children\u2019s concept books with this cute companion to her classic concept books, Mouse Paint <\/u>and Mouse Count<\/u>.\u00a0 Here, three quirky little mice are on the run from a big, scary cat!\u00a0 In their adventure to hide, they discover shapes and work as a team to create larger things out of the smaller geometric figures.\u00a0 The clever mice are curious as to what they can create with two circles, or a square, or perhaps, even eight triangles?\u00a0 How about a wagon, or a house, maybe even a cat?!\u00a0 Children will love to follow the story line of this enticing book, thus permitting them the opportunity to further learn shapes and colors.\u00a0 Teachers can easily extend this book into a true lesson by using large, cut-out shapes for children to find as the mice do too!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Circle Here, A Square There<\/a><\/u> <\/a>\u00a0by David Diehl<\/p>\n

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Yet another wonderful book to use in the classroom to help children identify shapes as common elements in every day life.\u00a0 Every page of this book displays the single word for each shape in large, bold print with accompanying pictorial examples beneath. A square is represented by a beautifully wrapped gift, the circle by a delicious scoop of ice cream.\u00a0 These are just a couple of the book\u2019s very relatable examples for children to see.\u00a0 Among the book\u2019s other shapes are the heart, oval, diamond, crescent, and even an octagon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Wing on a Flea: A Book about Shapes<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>by Ed Emberley<\/p>\n

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In this fun rhyming book that serves as a renovated version of the 1961 edition, shapes are presented to children as things they eat, see, or play with in their daily lives.\u00a0 Children will be completely mesmerized by clean-cut shapes, cheerful colors, varying sizes and the world that is created by combining them all together.\u00a0 Each shape is taught apart from every other, however, that does not stop the author from utilizing a combination of every shape in all pictures.\u00a0 All geometric figures are displayed as solid colors on a black background, thus allowing children to see the shapes clearly with no distractions.\u00a0 \u201cLook and you can see that a wing on a flea is a triangle!\u201d<\/p>\n

Web Annotations: Children’s Website<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Story of Shapes<\/a>\u00a0presents a furry, quirky animal telling the story of shapes and providing descriptions for each as he draws them on a chalkboard for childre nto see!<\/p>\n

The Shape Train<\/a>\u00a0asks that children identify the correct shapes in order to get the train to take off from the station.\u00a0 This can also be done using colors, whereby the child must choose the correct colors to get the train to take off.\u00a0 For a more advanced activity, the child can choose to mix colors and shapes!<\/p>\n

Purpy’s Shapes<\/a>\u00a0allows children to have fun with Purpy while finding some his favorite shapes.\u00a0 Children are first asked to match objects that are seen in every day life to corresponding geometric shapes.\u00a0 Secondly, they must find a given number of shapes in a presented picture.\u00a0\u00a0 If the child succeeds at this task, he\/ she is then presented with a kid-friendly explanation of how circles and squares are “squished” to get ovals and rectangles.\u00a0 Each time a child gets a page correct, he\/ she must locate an increased number of shapes in a new picture!<\/p>\n

On this site<\/a>, Kids Online Resources Presents Learning is Fun, children are shown shapes first, then asked to drag their mouse over real-life objects that match the given shape.\u00a0 Once correct,\u00a0\u00a0the child gets the opportunity to create large, sometimes silly, pictures or objects out of that shape.<\/p>\n

With I Spy Shapes<\/a>\u00a0children are presented with various scenes, which include several shapes throughout the picture.\u00a0 Children\u00a0must locate the shapes and click on them with the\u00a0mouse as a number ticker keepts track of the\u00a0shapes found.\u00a0 The picture is completed and the children are praised when all are successfully located!<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hummingbird Education Resources: Lesson Plans<\/a><\/p>\n

From catchy songs to cute in-class crafts, this site offers a comprehensive listing of various ways for teachers to implement and teach the shapes in Kindergarten classrooms.<\/p>\n

With Shapes Recognition Practice <\/a>several downloadable printables, listed from easiest to hardest to aid in differentiated learning, are presented to teachers to utilize in reinforcing the learning of shapes, sizes, and relative positions.<\/p>\n

Step by Step Childcare Presenting Shapes<\/a><\/p>\n

From edible ideas using common shapes to a list of children\u2019s literature, this is a great site for teachers providing multiple methods to enforce the recognition of shapes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following Instructional Resource Set focuses on the recognition and mastery of two dimensional geometric shapes at the Kindergarten level.\u00a0 In its entirety, this comprehensive plan places emphasis specifically on Virginia Standards of Learning\u00a0 K.11-K12.\u00a0 With these resources, in addition to lesson plans and activities, children will learn to recognize the four basic geometric shapes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}