Kindergarten · Math · Unit

Shapes All Around

6 lessonsabout 3 weeks

The unit ends with three more days: a review day, the unit check, and a day to act on what the check showed.

Unit 3 of 8 in the Kindergarten Math Scope and Sequence

What's included in this unit

6 lessons in teaching order, each with its objective and a teacher note
21 practice pages to print, with an easier and a harder page where available
2 classroom tools for the projector
5 activities and pages that children do on a screen
5 check-up pages to collect

The whole unit in one file

Print every page of the unit at once, with the teacher guide first. The guide has one page per lesson: the objective, what to hand out, and the teacher note.

Teacher guide only (PDF)

The unit file, the teacher guide, and saved pages are included with the Teacher plan.

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Lessons

Lesson 1

Name the shape

Children name circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles, even when a shape is turned, long, or thin.

StandardCommon Core K.G.A.2Geometry

2 class days

Day 1Teach: The Shape Stretcher · Practice on paper (Core page)
Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page

Lesson 2

Count the sides

Children count the sides of a shape, write the number, and match shapes to their number of sides.

StandardCommon Core K.G.B.4Geometry

2 class days

Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page

Practice on paper

Count the Sides
Core page Easier page Harder page
Sort by Sides
Core page Easier page Harder page

Practice on screen

Count the Sides — Geometry

Check-up page

One more page of Count the Sides to collect at the end of the lesson.

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Lesson 3

Flat or solid?

Children sort shapes into flat shapes and solid shapes.

StandardCommon Core K.G.A.3Geometry

2 class days

Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page

Practice on paper

Flat or Solid?
Core page Easier page Harder page

Practice on screen

Flat or Solid? — 2D and 3D Shapes

Check-up page

One more page of Flat or Solid? to collect at the end of the lesson.

Make more

Make more pages like this with the Shapes & Geometry maker.

Lesson 4

Name the solid shapes

Children name the sphere, the cube, the cylinder and the cone, match each one to an everyday thing of the same shape, and name it again when it is big or small, standing or lying down.

StandardCommon Core K.G.A.2Geometry

2 class days

Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page

Practice on paper

Name the Solid Shapes
Core page Easier page Harder page
Solid Shapes Around Us
Core page Harder page

Practice on screen

Solid Shapes Around Us (a page that checks the answers)

Check-up page

One more page of Name the Solid Shapes to collect at the end of the lesson.

Teacher note

Common mistakes: Children name a solid by its size or the way it lies: a can on its side is "a different shape," and a cone on its tip is "not a cone." Many use flat-shape words for solids (a ball is "a circle," a block "a square"), and some call every box a cube.
Words to use: Bring a big and a small ball, a number cube, a can and a party hat. Name each one: "This is a sphere. It is round all over." Roll, stack and slide them: the sphere rolls any way, the cube stacks and slides, the cylinder rolls on its side and stands on a flat end, the cone rolls in a circle. Lay the can down and hold the hat point down: "Still a cylinder? Still a cone?" Turning a solid or changing its size does not change its name. Then children find a sphere, a cube, a cylinder and a cone in the classroom and say each name.
What to watch for: At the top of every page, the child draws a line from each of four solids to the thing of the same shape. Below, a color code gives each name a color. Easier page: eight solids, upright, in two sizes. Page for everyone: twelve solids in three sizes, some turned (a cylinder lying down, a cone on its side or tip, a tilted cube). Harder page: the things are an orange, a number cube, a drum and an ice-cream cone, and a box and a pyramid among the twelve are none of the four and stay white. The second page matches three solids to things once more (it has no cone). Ask: "How do you know it is a cylinder, even lying down?"

Lesson 5

Build shapes from pieces

Children put tangram pieces together to make a figure and show where the pieces meet inside a shape.

StandardCommon Core K.G.B.6Geometry

2 class days

Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
Day 2Practice: More pages from the maker · Practice on screen

Practice on paper

Easy Tangram Puzzles: Draw the Lines for 2 and 3 Pieces
Core page
Tangram Puzzles: Cut Out the Pieces and Build Two Figures
Core page

Practice on screen

Mim's Glow Workshop — Compose Shapes from Pattern Blocks

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Lesson 6

Mirror pictures

Children look at a picture and choose the one that shows it the way a mirror would.

2 class days

Day 1Teach: The Folding Sheet · Practice on paper (Core page)
Day 2Practice and check: More pages from the maker · Check-up page

Warm up and teach

Open The Folding Sheet on the projector.

Practice on paper

Mirror, Mirror
Core page

Check-up page

One more page of Mirror, Mirror to collect at the end of the lesson.

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Unit check: before and after

Two short paper checks made from this unit's own worksheets. Give Check A before you teach the unit and Check B after it, and you can see what changed. Each part belongs to one lesson.

Part 1: Lesson 1, Name the shape (2 tasks)
Part 2: Lesson 2, Count the sides (3 tasks)
Part 3: Lesson 3, Flat or solid? (1 task)
Part 4: Lesson 4, Name the solid shapes (1 task)
Part 5: Lesson 5, Build shapes from pieces (1 task)

Not in the check: Lesson 6. Worksheets that cannot be split into single tasks are left out.

Check A (PDF) · 3 pages Check B (PDF) · 3 pages

Printing a check counts as a download, like any worksheet.

Answer key A Answer key B Teacher pages: points, class record, and what to do next

The answer keys and the teacher pages come with the paid Teacher plan.

This is a classroom check of this unit's lessons. It is not a standardized test, and its points are not a grade.

Unit checks