Create with Shapes Card Deck
With these cards and a set of basic shapes, your children will create a design or picture with the shapes.
This activity is filled with great learning opportunities including recognizing and identifying shapes, recognizing shapes in different orientations, exploring attributes of the shapes, composing new shapes- all while incorporating positional vocabulary in a meaningful way!
Basic shapes included: square, circle, triangle, rectangle, and hexagon.
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Size: 50 cards, 6 pages, 8.5 x 11 (letter). Directions included.
Connections to Standards
PreK: Identify and use common shapes
PreK: Explore concepts about position
CCSS.K.G.A.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.
CCSS.K.G.A.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
CCSS.K.G.B.4 Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/"corners") and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).
CCSS.K.G.B.5 Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.
CCSS.K.G.B.6 Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"
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