Independent

 

• Patch Tool
• Pattern Shapes
• Splash Math app 
• Curious George I Love Shapes game

Videos:

• Brainpop Jr. – Plane Shapes
• Brainpop Jr. – Solid Shapes

Games & Activities:

• Make 2D shapes with toothpicks.
• Gather 10-12 household objects.  Sort them by their 3D shapes.

Projects:

• Make a 3D shapes book

Family

Games & Activities:

• Take a walk around your neighborhood.   Go on a shape hunt for 2D shapes.  Illustrate and/write down what you find.

• Take a walk around your neighborhood.   Go on a shape hunt for 3D shapes.  Illustrate and/write down what you find.
• Make play-doh shapes then tell your family member:  My shape is a _____.  It has _____ sides.  It has _____ vertices.
• Play the I Spy Shape game.
• Come up with a song about 2D shapes and their attributes.
• Come up with a song about 3D shapes and their attributes.
• Hide an object.  Give your adult clues to find the objects using position words.

Projects:

• Take a neighborhood “shape walk” and snap photos of the shapes you see.  
• Make a Window Gallery by taping pictures to the window and draw frames around them with dry erase markers to label shapes.

Extension

Games & Activities:

• Make 3D shapes with toothpicks/stick pretzels and marshmallows/playdoh.
• Play “Guess My Shape” with an adult.  For example,  “ Guess my shape.  I am a 2D shape.  I have 4 corners and 4 equal sides.”

Projects:

• Cut out your own shapes and make a mural, such as, your neighborhood, underwater scene.