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Free Shapes Preschool Lesson Plans

In order to be ready for kindergarten, preschoolers benefit from learning their shapes. Here are 16+ shape activities for preschoolers that are already formatted into weekly lesson plans. Just download them from the end of this post.

Already-Planned-For-You Shape Activities for Preschoolers

Get your free preschool lesson plans at the end of this post.

Learning shapes is the most basic skill within the geometry discipline of math, so it makes sense that we spend some time teaching our preschoolers about shapes.

But there’s more to shapes than just their names. These preschool shape activities will take you beyond just memorizing shape names.

FAQ About How to Teach Shapes to Preschoolers

The following are the most frequently asked questions about how to teach shapes to preschoolers and toddlers.

How do you teach preschoolers about shapes?

Like many early childhood concepts, the more variety and the more hands-on activities you can offer the better your preschooler or toddler will learn. Make a shapes sensory bin. Read books about shapes. Hide shapes around the house and seek them out. Cut out shapes from construction paper and glue them together to make artwork. These are a few examples of how to teach shapes to preschoolers.

What shapes should preschoolers know?

By the time a preschooler is bound for kindergarten, they should be able identify the following shapes:

~ circle
~ square
~ triangle
~ rectangle
~ oval
~ rhombus
~ heart
~ star

You can find this and more in my Toddler & Preschool Assessment & Portfolio Pack.

Why teach shapes in preschool?

Teaching shapes to your preschooler is more than just teaching them to name them. Learning shapes helps children identify and organize visual information. Learning shapes also helps children understand other signs and symbols, such as street signs or icons on a computer app.

Get free preschool lesson plans at the end of this post.

Hands-on Preschool Shape Activities

These shape activities are available in a download at the end of this post. They offer 16+ activities to complete over the course of a week and are a part of my Learn At Home Preschool Lesson Plans.

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Literacy Activities for a Shapes Theme

Building Letters & Shapes Using Pipe Cleaners – Did you know that learning shapes help children recognize letters? Letters are very similar to shapes. The letter V is a triangle missing a side, and the letter O is just a circle. Using pipe cleaners, invite your preschooler to build some basic shapes. Can you turn any of those shapes into a letter or number with a quick tweak? What new letters/numbers can you make?

Shapes and Letters Collage – Using an old magazine or two, invite your preschooler to cut out all different kinds of shapes. While looking for shapes, encourage them to look in the magazine for the letters in their names. Look for favorite toys or foods, too! Cut everything out and assemble on a collage. Invite your preschooler to talk about their collage and name all the items they picked out. Then display it proudly!

Don’t Forget Picture Books About Shapes

When I first started teaching, there weren’t many picture books to help teach shapes to preschoolers. But things have changed! Here is a book list featuring my favorite shape books to read to my preschoolers.

Math and Science Activities for a Shapes Theme

Geometry Shape Train – Help your preschooler learn about the different properties of shapes by manipulating them to fit into a specific shape or design on paper. This activity develops spatial awareness and shape recognition. Print the train template and the shapes, and match the shapes to fill the train! Your growing engineer will love this activity!

Shape Activities with Movement – Grab some painters tape and make a few large shapes on the floor. Encourage your preschooler to trace the shape with their hand (and foot!) and hop, dance, or slide across the shape. This is a good activity for rainy days, too.

Which Shape is the Strongest? – Fold three pieces of construction paper into differently-shaped tubes. Fold one tube into a triangle, one into a square, and the other into a cylinder. Test which tube is the strongest when putting various items with a similar weight on top.

Playful Learning Activities for a Shapes Theme

Body Shapes – What shapes can you make with your body? Invite your preschooler to lie on the floor and try to make different shapes. What if you worked with a sibling or friend? What shapes can you make then? Take pictures of your preschooler and show them the shapes they made.

Mirror, Mirror Game – Face your preschooler and have them attempt to copy all your movements. Be silly! Run in place! Act like a monkey! Then switch roles and copy your preschooler. Can you make shapes with your body or hands? Challenge your preschooler to name “new shapes” they might create with their bodies while you copy them.

Sock Basketball – Help with the laundry by tossing clothes into the basket. Roll up clothes into a ball (or sphere) and toss them into the laundry basket. Two points for making it in on the first try! Make it into a fun game and gather all the laundry from around the house to be a big helper.

Download your free shape activities for preschooler at the end of this post.

Social-Emotional Activities for a Shapes Theme

Kid Yoga – Devoting time to stretch, move, and center our bodies is great for people of all ages! Go to YouTube and watch the video Kids Yoga Alphabet. Join in with the instructor and encourage your preschooler to practice some of the alphabet shape movements. If they are hesitant, allow them to watch and begin when they are ready. Encourage taking deep breaths, trying to be calm and centered, and model making mistakes as you try different poses. Keep it fun and engaging!

Drawing Confidence – Go to YouTube and listen to the book A Drawing Game by Anitha Murthy. After listening, invite your preschooler to do just like the young girl in the book and think of the shapes when she intends to draw something. As children get older, they often struggle with their drawing not matching the idea in their head or get frustrated when it doesn’t come out as they had hoped. Encouraging your preschooler to always think of the shapes when drawing will help them feel confident and like a true artist!

Just Plain Fun Activities for a Shapes Theme

Shape Flower Craft – This fun craft allows your preschooler to get creative with shapes and colors. Cut out various shapes from construction paper…the more the better! Challenge your preschooler to use the shapes to make various flowers. How many different designs can they come up with? If you have a preschool class, make an entire flower garden of shapes to hang on the wall!

Shape Pizza Craft – Kids love pizza! So why not make a shape pizza using construction paper? Invite your preschooler to draw various shapes on colored paper that represent the toppings. Circles for pepperoni, rectangles for cheese, triangles for pineapples…the options are endless! Glue them all down on a large circle for your pizza crust and have fun being a pizza chef! This is also a great activity to add to your Food and Nutrition Theme.

Playdough Shapes – Get creative with playdough shapes! Make houses, pizza, cakes, cars, and more. What shapes are used to make these different items?

Our Favorite Toys to Teach Shapes

You don’t need specialty toys or manipulatives to be an effective teacher, but if you’re looking for some shape manipulatives, these are some of the most used in my own classroom.

Safe Online Activities for a Shapes Theme

Online Story – Go to YouTube and listen to the book Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong. As you are listening, review any unknown words with your preschooler. Encourage your preschooler to answer the questions on each page as you read to make this book even more interactive.

Learn Shapes with Pete the Kitty – Follow along with our favorite Pete the Kitty and learn shapes and colors! And who doesn’t love Pete the Cat?!

Shapes are Everywhere Song – This song offers a great way to help your preschooler identify the names of the shapes, as well as where we see these shapes in our everyday lives.

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These shape activities ate written up as lesson plans to be completed in about a week’s time, but you can use them any time of year! Grab your free Learn At Home Preschool Lesson Plans by clicking the image below.

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This Shapes Preschool Math Unit includes everything you need to teach beginning geometry and shapes in preschool math!

It gives you the lesson plans and the centers, as well as smaller daily math activities to keep your students learning. Not only will your preschoolers learn how to identify basic shapes, but they will also develop spatial awareness skills.  From matching and sorting to graphing shapes and tracing, your preschooler will gain a strong foundation in geometry with these lesson plans.

With four complete weeks of lesson plans and over 36 hands-on activities, your preschooler will love math, too!

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I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.

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Shapes Lesson Plans for Preschoolers

Learning shapes is the most basic skill within the geometry discipline of math, so it makes sense that we spend some time teaching our preschoolers about shapes. But there’s more to shapes than just their names. With hands-on and exciting activities, plus a detailed scope and sequence for the whole unit, these shape lesson plans for preschoolers this is one math skill that will be a breeze to plan for.

Preschool Shape Activities & Lesson Plans

This post will give you a detailed look at the counting 0-5 unit in the daily mathematics lessons for preschoolers.

When I sat down to create a preschool math curriculum, I focused heavily on ensuring that the lessons, activities, and centers were designed to develop the math skills of every. child.

I knew it needed to spiral and review key concepts multiple times throughout the year, gradually increasing in difficulty. This approach is ideal because it covers math topics throughout the entire year. This allows children more time for mastery and an opportunity to increase the rigor of each lesson.

Learning shapes helps children identify and organize visual information. Shapes encourage preschoolers to visualize and connect to the world around them. Learning shapes also helps children understand other signs and symbols, such as street signs or icons on a computer app.

These preschool or kindergarten shape lesson plans are perfect for helping you plan engaging and developmentally appropriate lessons and activities for your students without loads of prep and time.

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FAQ About Teaching Shapes to Preschoolers

How do you teach preschoolers about shapes?

In preschool, children learn to identify and name shapes by using materials such as posters, blocks, games hands-on manipulatives, and books. Learning shapes is a process and requires repetition and practice. Scavenger hunts, shape collages, and sensory bins all help children learn to identify basic shapes.

Why do we teach shapes to preschoolers?

Shapes are the foundation of geometry! In a preschool setting, geometry skills include identifying shapes, comparing shapes, differentiating between shapes, and creating shapes. Learning shapes provides children with spatial awareness and visual discrimination as they identify different shapes.

How do you teach shapes in a fun way?

There are endless fun pre k shape activities for use in the classroom! We have included eight hands-on center activities and games in our lesson plans that teach shapes to preschoolers. Plus, we have created specific shape photo cards which encourage preschoolers to dive deep into a photograph and make connections to how shapes are all around us.

The third unit in the math series, this unit focuses on developing shape recognition and the foundations of geometry.

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Shapes Hands-On Supplies

This curriculum is designed to be low-prep and utilize the same supplies during each math unit. Buy it once, and use them over and over again for different learning purposes! Take a look at some of the resources we use for each unit. These items are staples for any early childhood math curriculum.

All About Shapes Lesson Plans

These shape lesson plans for preschoolers are designed for up to a five-day-week program, but activities within a week can be removed and skipped for two or three-day-week programs. There are lots of activities that develop shape recognition, learning shape attributes, and using pattern blocks to develop spatial awareness and learn to draw and create 2d shapes.

Discovery Activities/Math Photo Cards

The discovery activities are so much fun! Each week contains a real photograph or illustration for the children to interact with. The photo relates to the concept and encourages oral language and math vocabulary development. Plus, the vibrant photos expose children to different places, animals, and cultures. It’s easy to see that math really is everywhere in our daily lives!

The math photo card example below shows a colorful plate of food filled with fun shapes! This engaging photo invites young learners to identify shapes they see, count the number of like shapes, and discuss the sides or lack of sides that the shape has. Kids learn that shapes are all around us, even on your lunch plate! Each photo card includes mathematical points, teaching tips, and engaging questions to encourage your children to think about each photo through a mathematical lens.

These math photo cards help children see how math takes place in the world around us.

Daily Dip

The daily dip is a review activity to reinforce previously taught skills. You will notice valuable teaching tips throughout the review lessons. These tips offer insight to help execute specific strategies in
the lessons. This section is optional depending on time and student needs but is certainly a valuable component of each day.

The photo below shows examples of the first week of the shapes unit. You’ll notice that the activities include counting, sorting, and matching which were learned in the previous units to ensure exposure and practice to essential math skills all year long.

A sample of multiple days of the daily dip/teach and engage components of the math shapes curriculum.

Teach and Engage

The teach and engage section is a brand new daily lesson for your students packed with new learning. This component of the curriculum includes lots of modeling and student interaction. Each lesson includes a bonus section that offers tips on how to make the lesson more challenging and provides extensions for children who are ready for more difficulty.

Shape Centers for Preschoolers

Shape centers and games are invaluable in preschool. We have included lots of hands-on shape games and math activities for pre-k that allow children to independently practice with engaging manipulatives. Remember independent centers should always be supervised in preschool and kindergarten.

Shape Formation Mats

This center reinforces how to draw the shapes and to make observations about each shape. These shape mats also children with valuable pre-writing skills and pencil grasp development. They can also be used with counters, buttons, pom-poms, or other small items laid along the lines to help with fine motor!

Shapes Center 3-1 – This printable preschool center helps young children build pre-writing skills while learning shape names and configuration.
Shape Clip Cards

This center focuses on visual discrimination between basic shapes and colors. The grey shape at the beginning encourages the child to find the matching shapes regardless of color. This center can also be made self-checking by adding a dot on the back for children to check their work. Add popsicle sticks to this center and encourage children to try and create the focus shape. Are you able to make a circle using popsicle sticks? Why or why not?

Shape Center 3-2 – This center focuses on matching shapes and developing visual discrimination.
Shape Train

This game is print is such a fun way to learn shapes. Piece the train shapes together to create one long train on the table. Then roll the number and shape die to move your game marker along the train identifying the shapes as you go. Play continues until each player reaches the end of the train. This center also includes a more complex version with advanced shapes like the rhombus, hexagon, pentagon, etc.

Shape Center 3-3 – This center focuses on identifying shapes, counting along the way, and learning to play cooperatively.
Shape Puzzles

This center is all about the shapes! Children are invited to identify the gray shape and then find the matching puzzle piece with the same colorful shapes. This center is a great opportunity for children to make their own puzzles by drawing the shapes and creating matching pieces.

Shape Center 3-4 – This puzzle shape center focuses on visual discrimination and building shape knowledge.
Everyday Shapes I Spy

Put the I Spy mats on a table with counters. Invite the child to choose a shape on the bottom of the mat and put a corresponding colored counter on top of each corresponding everyday shape. Continue until all the everyday shapes have been found. This center is also easy to differentiate with two versions of each mat, one with the total number of shapes on each mat and one version without.

Shape Center 3-5 – This center helps children recognize shapes all around them while engaging with shapes in a fun and inviting way.
Shape Playdough Mats

This center is all about the formation of shapes and hands-on fine motor learning. Invite the students to select a shape playdough mat. Encourage them to identify the shape. Then smoosh the playdough onto the shape, making it flat like a pancake, to match the shape. For more shape practice, add the cut-up straws around the shape, (use yarn for the circle since it has no sides), creating a border/shape outline. This center also provides the opportunity for children to create their own shapes using playdough and identify the sides and corners as well.

Shape Center 3-6 – This center focuses on learning how to create and identify a shape using playdough.
Everyday Shapes Sorting Mats

These everyday shape mats help children make the connection between shape drawings and shapes found in the real world. Mix up the everyday shape cards and set them in a face-down pile next to the sorting mats. Draw an everyday shape card and sort it onto the corresponding shape mat. Continue until all the everyday shape cards are sorted.

Shape Center 3-7 – This center invites children to sort and classify the everyday shapes they find while making connections to shapes all around us.
Spin and Cover Everyday Shapes

This spin and cover game is a perfect independent center for practicing shapes in the everyday life! Invite the child to select a spin and cover mat. Once they spin the spinner and identify the shape, they find the corresponding shape on the mat and cover it with a counter. Play until all the shapes have been covered!

Shape Center 3-8 – This independent center encourages children to spin and cover the matching shape using rainbow counters.

Math to Literacy Connections

We have also included eight optional literacy activities that infuse math picture books. Children learn best through colorful illustrations and storytelling. These eight picture books bring shapes to life and build upon other math skills (counting, colors, patterns) as well.

Grab these fantastic books about shapes here!

Bear in a Square by Stella Blackstone
Big Box of Shapes by Wiley Lewis
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Walsh
Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald
The Shape of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds
Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
Walter’s Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood
Round is a Tortilla by Roseanne Thong

Get Your Shape Lesson Plans for Preschoolers Here

The daily lessons in shapes are completed and ready to use! Filled with daily lesson plans, centers, activities, and even literacy connections, this shape math unit is all you’ll need for your preschool lessons.

Looking for a Preschool Math Curriculum for the Whole Year?

We’ve got you covered! From sorting to graphing, counting to shapes, this preschool math curriculum is loaded with engaging activities, literacy connections, and daily photo cards to spark joy in math.

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Abstract of the lesson on FEMP for children of senior preschool age "In the edge of Geometry"

Purpose: to consolidate knowledge of known geometric shapes, their properties, to develop memory and observation skills.

Tasks: to consolidate the ability to model from geometric shapes. Teach children to navigate in a limited area (sheet of paper). Improve your dialogue. Form the need for physical activity.

nine0003 Materials and equipment: presentation on electronic media, multimedia, 2 magnetic boards with magnets, laptop, projector, audio recording, 2 posters with an image consisting of geometric shapes, mathematical set "geometric shapes" - 2 pcs, chest, letter, posters with the tasks “What is superfluous?”, colored pencils for each child, sheets of white paper according to the number of children, “pebbles” of round and oval shape.

Lesson progress

Caretaker: Guys, I want to invite you on an unusual journey. Unusual because the country we are going to is not on the map. What is this country? This country is Mathematics. And today we will visit a very interesting region - Geometry. What kind of land it is, who lives there, what the inhabitants do - you will find out all this by answering questions and completing all the tasks that the inhabitants of this unusual land have prepared for you. Ready to start your journey?

Children: Yes!

Caretaker: Excellent! Then we close our eyes and say the magic words:

We stomp our feet, clap our hands,
Let's close our eyes, say: "Ah!"
And we will be visiting!

On the slide of the projector is a picture of a fairy forest. Children open their eyes.

Educator: So, here we are already in this unusual region. Look carefully around. There must be a task left for us somewhere.

Children look around and find a chest. nine0044

Educator: What a beautiful chest! Yes, there will probably be a task in it. (open the chest) Guys, here is a letter: “Dear guys! We are very glad that you came to visit us. To find out who we are, you need to solve riddles and complete our tasks. And here is the first riddle:

The plane flies through the sky
Delta wing,
On my bike
Triangular seat,
There is such an object, a square,
And all this - .... nine0005

Children: Triangle.

Educator: Of course, well done!

(On the screen, in the picture of the forest, a fabulous inhabitant of the country appears: the little man Triangle)

Look, here is the first inhabitant of this region - a triangle. And we read on. Listen.

He's been my friend for a long time
Every angle in it is right.
All four sides are the same length.
I'm glad to introduce myself to you. And my name is... nine0005

Children: Square.

The next character appears on the slide - man Quadrilateral

Educator: Wonderful! We continue.

We stretched the square
And presented at a glance,
Who did he look like?
Or with something very similar?
Not a brick, not a triangle,
Became a square - ...

Children: Rectangle. nine0005

A Rectangle man appears on the slide.

Educator: Great! We listen further.

The wheel rolled
After all, it looks like
Like a visual nature,
Only for round figures.
Guess dear friend
What is this...

Children: Circle.

The person Krug appears on the screen.

Caretaker: Excellent. Go ahead.

If I took a circle
Slightly compressed on both sides
Guess, children, together,
I would have..

Children: Oval.

Another inhabitant appears on the screen - Oval Man.

Educator: Good! And the last riddle.

triangle filed
And got the figure.
Two obtuse corners inside, nine0032 And two sharp - look
Not a square, not a triangle,
It looks like a polygon.

Children: Trapeze.

The last figure appears on the screen - little man Trapeze.

Educator: Well done, guys! You have solved all the riddles. What are the inhabitants of this region?

Children: are figures. Geometric figures.

Educator: Right. Various figures live in the edge of Geometry. Look at the screen and name all these shapes again. nine0005

Children answer (triangle, square, rectangle, circle, oval, trapezoid)

Educator: What figures do you still know?

Children's answers. (Rhombus, hexagon, cylinder, cone…)

Educator: Well done! Guys, the inhabitants of this country offer us to continue the journey. Close your eyes and count to three.

At this time, the picture changes on the screen - river bank

Teacher: Where were we transferred?

Children's answers: (River bank, lawn)

Educator: Great! We are on the banks of a beautiful river. The inhabitants of this country have prepared tasks for us. Before proceeding with their implementation, we need to split into two teams and each team to stand in a column one after the other. Look, guys, I attach a poster with a symbolic image consisting of geometric shapes to the board for each team. Nearby is a set with geometric shapes. Listen to what task you have to complete: you need to jump one by one to the board, look at the image, choose any suitable geometric figure, put it on the mat and run back to your column. The next participant also jumps to the board and chooses the next matching piece and constructs the image as in the sample. The team that completes the task first wins. And yet, guys, please note that in addition to the shapes, additional elements are used in the image. Don't forget about them too. Ready? 1, 2, 3 run! nine0005

Children perform a task - a relay race. After that, the correctness of the task is discussed.

Educator: Great, guys! The inhabitants of this region give us another task. That's what it is: we need to get to the other side of the river. But how to get over if there is no bridge, Guys, look carefully, there are pebbles in the river. Some are round in shape, others oval. The task of the first team is to get over to the other side, stepping only on the stones-circles, the other - on the stones-ovals. Who will move to the other side, sit down at the table. Well, let's get down to the task. nine0005

To the cheerful music, the children take turns overcoming the obstacle and sit down at the tables. Where one more task is prepared for them.

Educator: Excellent! Everyone returned, no one got their feet wet. And here is the next task from the inhabitants of the edge of Geometry. In front of you are pieces of paper with pencils. You must follow my instructions. Listen carefully and draw.

  • Draw a blue square in the upper left corner.
  • Green triangle - in the center. nine0230
  • Red oval - in the upper right corner.
  • Orange rectangle - in the lower right corner.
  • Yellow circle - in the lower left corner.

Children complete the task, then check everything together.

Educator: Very good. Our journey is coming to an end. It's time for us to go back to kindergarten. Geometric figures give us the last task for today. Look at the board, which piece is superfluous and why? nine0005

On the board, posters are hung in turn with tasks for finding an extra figure in a line. For example, one of the geometric shapes is voluminous, the rest are flat; circle, other shapes with corners, etc.

The teacher calls the children to explain the solution to the task, or the children go to the blackboard on their own if they wish.

Educator: Well done, guys! You also completed the last task. Now answer my question: Who are the inhabitants of this amazing region? nine0005

Children's answers: The inhabitants of this region are geometric figures.

Educator: Of course! Correctly! Well, that's where our journey ended. It's time for us to say goodbye to the inhabitants of this country and go home.

Close your eyes and say the magic words:

We stomp our feet, clap our hands,
Let's close our eyes, say: "Oh!"
Let's go home!
Here we are at home.

Guys, did you enjoy your trip? In what country and in what region were we today? What do you remember the most? What did you like? What task was the most interesting?

LESSON SUMMARY ON THE TOPIC: "GEOMETRIC FIGURES" IN THE SENIOR GROUP | Lesson plan in mathematics (senior group) on the topic:

LESSON SUMMARY ON THE TOPIC: "GEOMETRIC FIGURES" IN THE SENIOR GROUP

Purpose:
- to improve knowledge about geometric shapes and the shape of objects; nine0032 Tasks:

Educational:

- to consolidate knowledge about geometric shapes;

- to form the experience of independent overcoming of difficulties under the guidance of a teacher on the basis of the reflective method, the experience of self-control;

- improve the ability to correlate a figure with a quantity, compare aggregates and establish equality between them;

- to exercise in solving logical problems and problems of ingenuity;

- to form in children an interest in mathematics, a sense of confidence in their knowledge. nine0005

- train mental operations - analysis, comparison, generalization, abstraction.

Developing:

- develop attention, memory, speech, fantasy, imagination, logical thinking, creativity, initiative;

- develop fine motor skills of hands.

Educators:

- to bring up positive motivation for learning, interest in mathematics;

- cultivate a friendly attitude towards each other.

Demo:

nameplates for halts; toy Old Man - Forester, the image of numbers from 1 to 7 on A4 sheets of paper for physical education, geometric shapes, a magnetic board, a tray, red and yellow flowers made of cardboard, a poster with a picture of a flower meadow, a poster with a picture of a geometric country.

Handout:

- number cards from 1 to 5; sets of geometric planar and volumetric figures, album sheets by the number of children.

- worksheets with tasks "geometric trees", "geometric houses", "geometric swings". Sheets of paper cut from colored paper geometric shapes. nine0032 Methods and techniques: explanation, indication, explanation, questions, display, game technique, encouragement, pedagogical assessment.

Lesson content:

Ι. Introduction:

Organizational moment.

Greeting game "Our smart heads"

Our smart heads
They will think a lot, deftly.
Ears will listen,
Mouth will speak clearly.
Hands will clap,
Feet will stomp.
The backs are straightened,
We smile at each other,

The lesson starts.

ΙΙ. Main part.

Educator: - Attention, guys! I want to tell you that today we want to make a trip. I know the magic words that will help us go on a journey to the land of geometric shapes. What geometric shapes do you know? (children's answers).

Teacher: a circle, an oval, a triangle, a rectangle, a square are plane figures. There are also volumetric figures - a cube, a ball, a cylinder.

In a geometric country, geometric figures are everywhere. And the Old Man will go with us - the forest man, he knows all the paths in the country of geometric shapes. We have a lot to go through today and many problems to solve along the way. So let's go on a magical journey. nine0005

“Stop strap - clap

around us in our hands, we’ll take the hands of

,

eyes in our hands - say“ Ah ” - and we will be visiting”

Here we are in the country of geometric shapes.

Our first stop. It's called "Difficult Problems".

- We'll sit at a halt and solve all the puzzles.

Guys, sit down at the tables.

Exercise "Geometric trees"

Here are cards that show trees with crowns that look like geometric shapes. Count how many trees are in the picture? (Five trees). nine0032 Show a tree with a round crown (oval, triangle, rectangle, square).
What is the number of trees with a round crown (oval, triangular, rectangular, square)?

Educator: - Well done, guys! You have completed the task, and we are moving on.

We walked, we walked, we walked, we walked, we came to the second halt "Guess-ka".

This halt is located on Geometric street.

- Consider the houses of the geometric country.

- In what house do you think what geometric figure lives? nine0032 - Whose house is the highest (lowest)?
- Whose house is the widest (narrowest)?
- To whose house does the longest (shortest) path lead?

- There are envelopes on your tables. They have cards with numbers on them. Lay out a series of numbers from the cards.

- Show the card with the number, how many floors are in the square house (2) (rectangular (2), triangular (2)).

- Well done, you did a great job.

Exercise "Geometric swing"

- There is a magic swing in the land of geometric shapes. Geometric figures ride on a swing. On the left side of the swing, sit three circles to ride. And on the right side, plant squares, one less than circles. What can be done to make circles and squares equal? (Add one square or remove one circle. )

We walked, we walked, we walked, we walked and came to the third halt.

Exercise “Arrange Geometric Shapes on a Sheet”

- And now take sheets of paper from the edge of the table and prepare cardboard geometric shapes for work.

- Place a square in the upper right corner.
- Put a circle in the middle of the sheet.
- Place a triangle in the lower left corner.
- Place the oval in the upper left corner.
- Put a triangle in the lower right corner.

- Well done guys, you did a great job. nine0005

Count and Do Dynamic Pause

Now, guys, let's take a break.

Get up from the tables and come to me.

We are waiting for physical education!

How many points in this circle (5),
Let's raise our hands so many times.
How many sticks to the point (6),
How many we will stand on our toes.
How many green Christmas trees (4),
How many slopes we will make.
How many circles we have here (7),
How many jumps we will make. nine0005

- In the country of geometric figures, the Old Man-forester really likes it and he would like to stay here. He asks you to help him build a house, and for the construction he brought material. Here's what he brought (showing building material).

- Let's help build a house for the Old Man-forester? (children's answer)

- What figures are suitable for construction? These are cubes, they are voluminous, they have corners, edges, faces. One face of a cube is a square.

- What is the difference between a cube and a square? (flat square, three-dimensional cube)

- How is a cube different from a sphere? (there are corners, can't roll).

- What is the common property of a cube and a ball? (they are both voluminous)

Educator: - Why is it convenient to build from cubes? (they do not roll, voluminous).

- From what figures did we build the house? (children's answers).

- Guys, who were you during the construction of houses? (builders). And who are the builders? (children's answers)

Educator: - Building a house is not an easy task. You must have been tired while you were building, let's cheer up a little. nine0005

Physical education minute:

- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - we want to become builders (claps, hands to the sides)

Together we raise the boards (hands up)

We quickly hammer nails (fist to fist)

paint with a brush new house (turn around, “paint with a brush”)

To be comfortable in it.

1, 2, 3, - the house is built - look! (jumping, hands to the sides).

Educator: - Well, how is the Old Man - the forest man, did the guys build a house for you?

- Well done guys! The old forest man, in gratitude for your help, gives you this chest. Shall we look into it? Look, these are sweet treats! nine0005

- Well, how sad it is, but it's time for us to return home, we overcame all the paths without hesitation.

- Close all your eyes, and we will count down from 3 to 1.


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