People often wonder how to explain 3D shapes to kindergarten (especially the difference between 2D and 3D shapes). Here's my favorite way of doing this.
KINDERGARTEN MATH UNIT 2 - GEOMETRY I am thrilled to be sharing my kindergarten Geometry Unit with you! The kids love all of the hands-on activities we get to do, and I love how easy it is to keep them engaged. I am sharing so many freebies with you right here on this blog
These hands-on and engaging 3D shape activities for kindergarten will help your students learn 3D shape names and attributes in a fun way!
You've covered so many units in math so far. Now, it's time for the unit over 3D solid shapes! This is a fun unit because your learners will learn some big vocabulary words AND they will use those words every day as they relate them to real objects! Create a Math Block Your math block
Download 19 worksheets on 3D or solid shapes (i.e. sphere, cone, cylinder, cube, rectangular prism or cuboid and pyramid) suitable for kindergarten class.
Looking for awesome shapes worksheets for kindergarten and games to use in your classroom? This pack is filled with hands-on activities and no-prep worksheets to help children learn about and use shapes.
Learning shapes in preschool goes beyond two dimensions! I created a free printable for also introducing our youngest learners to the world of 3D shapes in preschool. We had so much fun with our 2D shape activities, that I decided to take basic preschool shapes to the next level. The 3D Shapes Free Printable Activities are a great way to introduce 3D geometric shapes with fun, engaging math games. Adding these to your lesson plans takes little more than printing, protecting, and playing in small groups or with your whole class!
These free shapes activities help kids learn about 2D and 3D shapes with straight sides. Kids can use their fine motor skills to construct the shapes out
These 5 fun 3D shapes activities for kindergarten are a great way for students to learn about shape attributes while having a blast.
This 3D shapes song is the perfect hook to get your students learning without even realizing they are learning. Watch ad-free & child-safe here.
These are such fun games for teaching about 3D shapes! Kids roll the die, check the key at the top, and move to the closest picture in that shape. I love quick, effective learning! #teachingmath #3dshapes #kindergarten #firstgrade
These FREE printable geometry nets will make learning about shapes fun and easy!
My kindergarten friends *beg* me to play this song: They have become 3D Shape experts... and LOVED making these 3D Shape Anchor charts. ...
We are getting geared up for learning about 2D and 3D shapes in my classroom! Let's keep this low-prep, rigorous, and FUN! These activities are from my NO-PREP Shapes Printables and also my Common Core Math Centers Bundle. Here are a few examples from these packets! And a few centers from my Common Core Math Centers... Download them HERE!
These FREE printable 3D shapes puzzles are the perfect way to practice 3D shapes with your students. They are low-prep, fun, and engaging! Get your FREE set today.
Building shapes STEM for kids is a fun and easy engineering activity for kids. Help toddlers and preschoolers learn their shapes with some play based learning.
Looking for awesome shapes worksheets for kindergarten and games to use in your classroom? This pack is filled with hands-on activities and no-prep worksheets to help children learn about and use shapes.
These hands-on and engaging 3D shape activities for kindergarten will help your students learn 3D shape names and attributes in a fun way!
Kindergarten Math Made Fun Unit 9 is here, and it's all about SHAPES! This hands-on, engaging and FUN unit will get kids excited about basic shapes! Not
We are starting to introduce 3D shapes in our class. It's so funny to see how much Kindergarten kiddos love to learned about 3D shapes and when they realize they live in a 3D world! We use many different resources to learn about 3D Shapes. Here are a few below! Find my 3D Shapes pack at the link below: 3D Shapes We begin by introducing one 3D shape a week. I have actual 3D shape blocks, but I also hang up these posters on the wall below our 2D shapes just for reference and comparison. The speech bubbles are a part of a poem we say every day to remember the 3D shapes. The poem is on an anchor chart for FREE at the bottom of the post. :) Each week as we learn a 3D shape, we also do a worksheet that focuses on each shape individually to practice and reiterate what each 3D shape looks like in our lives. After we complete all five 3D shapes for Kindergarten, we sort the 3D shapes and "acknowledge the attributes" to really recognize the differences between all five. We also complete a 3D shapes emergent reader that has students stretch out unknown words and also apply their knowledge of 3D shapes in the real world! Then, things get really fun! We play 3D shapes Pictionary with friends and make 3D shape necklaces. For Pictionary, students play the game in pairs and one at a time spin the paperclip on the game board. They then need to draw a 3D shape that looks like one of the five given shapes. The partner tries to guess what they are drawing. When you make 3D shape necklaces, all of the 3D shape templates for the necklaces are included. Students can make whichever 3D shape they want to attach to yarn for a necklace. For example: with the cone template they can make an ice cream cone, a party hat, etc. Finally, here is a FREE 3D Shapes poem anchor chart! FREE 3D SHAPES ANCHOR CHART Enjoy and Have Fun!
This 3D roll and color shape game is perfect way for students to practice cubes, spheres, cylinders, prisms and cones in a small group or math center.
Print these free single-player 2D and 3D shape games for your learners!
Looking for awesome shapes worksheets for kindergarten and games to use in your classroom? This pack is filled with hands-on activities and no-prep worksheets to help children learn about and use shapes.
For the past few weeks we have been learning about 3-dimensional figures. We set out a few different provocations to have students reflect on both 2D (flat) and 3D (fat) shapes through hands-on activities (picture coming soon!). We concentrate primarily on 6 of the 3D figures (cube, cone, cylinder, sphere, rectangular prism, pyramid) but we always have other figures out in our activities for students to explore. There are a couple of math resources that are my absolute favourites! If you haven't already read them, you should consider it (I have read and re-read them many times!). I have had some people e-mail me asking where I bought the different 3D figures I use. These smaller plastic ones are from Wintergreen Learning and they are, by far, my very favourite to use! They are perfect to play games with and leave out for students to explore (see below). I also like these larger foam 3D figures. These are from Scholastic Canada - if you have bonus coupons I would suggest using them to purchase several of these sets (you can't have enough!) I also like to read this book to the students and having them think about 3D figures in our classroom. It's a great book to explain the concept of 3D figures that can roll, slide or do both! The we test the theories of the children by using ramps and foam solids. We also begin a co-constructed anchor chart together and learn how to describe each figure. This song by Harry Kindergarten is catchy and definitely a favourite in our class! The students asked for it again and again! Once the children are comfortable with identifying 3D figures in the world, we send a parent letter home asking to send in items from home (recyclables are the best!) so that the students can sort them out. We put them all in our sensory bin and students sorted them on the shelves behind. We sing this song during whole group learning time to review the names of the shapes. I hand out 6 of the 3D figures we are learning about (cube, sphere, rectangular prism, pyramid, cone, cylinder) to some students. If they are holding the figure that I sing about they have to stand up. They love it! In addition to these fun songs, we read a book based on the well-known poem about 3D figures. I turned this poem into a larger teacher book and read it with the students. Then the students could make their own smaller books based on the predictable sentences...."A ___ is like a ___." I made this teacher book (seen below in colour) as a flip book, meaning that a few clues are given and the students have to guess the figure hiding under the flap. The students enjoyed this riddle book so much that we invited them to create their own lift-the-flap riddles! In small groups, I like to play the game "What's in My Bag?" I use the smaller plastic shapes and put a whole bunch in a bag. You can play this in various ways: * Have a student reach into the bag. Before pulling out the 3D figure, he/she must describe it and record their guess on the worksheet shown below (I have various worksheets based on the level the students are at. Placing them in a sheet protector is the easiest so we can just wipe clean and start again!) * Same idea as above but you play with a friend and have that person guess what 3D figure it is. We had students use these clip cards to identify shapes and they could easily self-correct as there was a star on the back. Note: I realized after printing that there was a picture of a tent instead of a teepee and it has since been corrected.* At one of the smaller provocation tables in the class, we set out this question, "Can you build a tower using 3D figures?" I also included smaller 3D figure clip art so that students could document their creations. Here's another provocation we set out: "Can you build it?" Students choose a card and, using the small 3-D figures, try to build it! They must figure out if they are able to build it or not. This made for an excellent assessment tool! Students could explain why or why not using language such as: "The tower won't stay if the sphere is at the bottom because it makes everything roll off of it." A.D. "The rectangular prism is the best to start a tower because it can stack both ways!" M.S. "The cone is good on the top. It's like a real castle. They have points on top!" O.S. "This one won't work - it started with a cone on the bottom and you can't put anything on top because it has a point and nothing stays on the point." G.A. We added these to our pocket chart and had students build simple sight word sentences using 3D shapes and examples. My students love playing games - they never turn down an opportunity to join a small group if there's a fun game I have introduced! So I created "Capture 6" - a game played similarly to the well-known game Capture 4 but you have to cover 6 spots next to each other on your game board to win (forming a rectangle). They loved this game! Here's another game we played - this time as a whole group... You might have seen these before - it's called "I have...who has..." Students say "I have..." and they say the colour and 3-D figure they see on their card and say "Who has..." and says the bottom icon (i.e. purple cone). The student who has that figure (i.e. purple cone) is next. The game continues until it gets back to the person who started. You can find all of the above (and more!) in my 3-D Figures (Hands-On Games and Activities) pack on TpT if you are interested. (Click on any of the pictures to take you there.)
How To Best Teach 3D Shape in the Early Years | you clever monkey
We worked all week on 3D shapes!! We learned about a cone, cylinder, sphere, and cube. We did lots of different activities to learn about each 3D shape attributes and found 3D shapes all around us!! Here are some activities we did to learn about these 3D shapes I introduced a 3D Shape each day. […]
KINDERGARTEN MATH UNIT 2 - GEOMETRY I am thrilled to be sharing my kindergarten Geometry Unit with you! The kids love all of the hands-on activities we get to do, and I love how easy it is to keep them engaged. I am sharing so many freebies with you right here on this blog
How To Best Teach 3D Shape in the Early Years | you clever monkey
Looking for awesome shapes worksheets for kindergarten and games to use in your classroom? This pack is filled with hands-on activities and no-prep worksheets to help children learn about and use shapes.
This is a great 3D shapes activity for kindergarten and first grade! Kids experiment with each shape to see if it can roll, stack, or slide. Then they color the happy or sad face. They count faces, edges, and vertices on the other worksheet. Love these! #shapes #teachingmath #kindergarten #3dshapes
Hello there! I am excited to share my updated 2D/ 3D shape math center activities packet! I’ve added some new games and additional resources to help make teac
As promised I am back to share my newest 3D shape product. WOW! I feel like I have been working on this packet FOREVER! One reason this took so long to create was because I took my first leap into creating clip art because I was not able to find any cute 3D shape clip art. This resource has TONS of cute stuff and I am so excited to share it with you! This 36 page 3D Shape Fun packet includes 6 posters to teach 3D shapes and one 3D shape attribute poster to help students with the vocabulary terms. A 3D Shape/Color BINGO game with calling cards and 7 different BINGO boards. A student book to learn about the 6 3D shapes, concentration game, 3D Shape Sort with Data Analysis and an "I Have, Who Has 3D Shape Game" WHEW! Stop by my shop to check out this fun packet!
Grab these FREE Kindergarten Geometry pages for 2D and 3D shapes to use with your early learners. Just print-and-go!
Practice recognizing and counting basic geometric shapes with this printable worksheet. How many shapes do you see in this picture?
These 5 fun 3D shapes activities for kindergarten are a great way for students to learn about shape attributes while having a blast.
Looking for awesome shapes worksheets for kindergarten and games to use in your classroom? This pack is filled with hands-on activities and no-prep worksheets to help children learn about and use shapes.
This is a fun, engaging, and hands on way to teach kids about the 3D shapes. This hands-on activity, is a great way for kids to begin developing engineering skills. They will love using marshmallows, or other appropriate treats, to create their own 3D models, so you may want to have extras on hand, as a reward for finishing the task! Children will not only have fun while constructing 3D nets, they will also learn to follow instructions, and even gather the appropriate materials for the project.
Today my gorgeous class increased their knowledge of 2D shapes by making a 'Shape Pizza'. We used paper plates as the base of our pizzas. Students then coloured the paper plates to make the pizza base. I printed off the shapes onto different coloured paper and students cut them out and added them to their paper plates (pizzas). Students then completed the worksheet provided by recognising and counting how many shapes they had used to make their pizza. What a fun time we had! If you wish to create this with your own class here is a link to my activity on Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mrs-Steffensons-Kindergarten
Kindergarten Math Made Fun Unit 9 is here, and it's all about SHAPES! This hands-on, engaging and FUN unit will get kids excited about basic shapes! Not
This free 3D shape activity is a fun one to play with first and second grade students after teaching the attributes of 3D solid shapes!
