Description
Teach all about 2D and 3D Shapes with these 21 different printable activities and 14 digital resources for Google Slides and Seesaw! Students will learn shape words and shape attributes. Students will sort pattern blocks and 3D blocks, as well as create designs. Students will search around the classroom for examples of shapes, as well as find matches between shapes and real life examples. Students will create class books based on great shape read alouds. Student will create shapes with play dough and complete an emergent reader about shapes and the number of sides/faces.
What 2D Shape Activities Are Included?
- Shape Hunt: Graph examples of 2D shapes around the room
- Shape Hunt: Draw examples of 2D shapes around the room
- Pattern Blocks Sort: Sort the different shapes by shape and by number of sides
- Pattern Blocks Design: Make a design with pattern blocks and count up the number of shapes used
- Pattern Blocks Design: Make a design with pattern blocks
- Play Dough Shapes: Use play dough to make 2D shapes
- Matching Cards: Match pictures of shapes, to real world examples, to the shape names
- The Shape of Things Class Book (printable and/or Google Slides and Seesaw)
- Mouse Shapes Class Book (printable and/or Google Slides and Seesaw)
- My Shape Book Emergent Reader
- 2D Shape Hunt (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
- 2D Shape Sort (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
- 2D Shape Match (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
- 2D Emergent Reader (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
Read this blog post to learn more about how I teach 2D shapes!
What 3D Shape Activities Are Included?
- It’s Not A _______ Class Book (printable and/or Google Slides and Seesaw)
- Shape Sort: Sort 3D shapes (5 different versions including sorting by number of faces and which shapes can roll and stack)
- Matching Cards: Match pictures of shapes, to real world examples, to the shape names
- Shape Hunt: Graph examples of 3D shapes around the room
- Shape Hunt: Draw examples of 3D shapes around the room
- Shape Hunt: Draw examples of 2D and 3D shapes around the room
- Shape Sorting: Sort real world examples and shape images of 2D and 3D shapes
- Play Dough Shapes: Use play dough to make 3D shapes
- My 3D Shape Book Emergent Reader: 2 Versions (connect 3D shape name to real world example and write how many faces the shape has)
- 3D Shape Hunt (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
- 3D Shape Match (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
- 3D Emergent Reader 1 (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
- 3D Emergent Reader 2 (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
- 2D and 3D Sort (for Google Slides and Seesaw)
Read this blog post to learn more about how I teach 3D shapes!
What Geometry Skills Do These Activities Address?
- Students will be able to identify and describe the following 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, rhombus, skinny rhombus, and rectangle
- Students will sort shapes by the number of sides and/or faces
- Students will learn how many sides 2D shapes have and how many faces 3D shapes have
- Students will be able to identify 2D and 3D shape examples in real life
- Students will compose designs and pictures using different shapes
- Students will be able to identify and describe the following 3D shapes: pyramid, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, sphere, cone, and triangular prism
- Students will sort 3D shapes by the properties of rolling and stacking
- Students will be able to sort examples of shapes into 2D and 3D shapes
➕➖✖️➗ What Math Standards Do These Measurement Kindergarten Activities Address? ➕➖✖️➗
Identify and describe shapes
K.G.A.2
Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
K.G.A.3
Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”).
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).
K.G.B.5
Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.
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?”
