Teaching shapes to preschoolers lesson plan
16+ Shape Activities for 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. There are shape activities for toddlers, too!
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.
Kids learn best with hands-on activities, and that what these are! Toddlers and preschoolers alike, and even kindergarten students, will love these fun shape activities because of all that hands on learning! They are easy to set up and require minimal materials.
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, including which preschool shapes are appropriate for learning. there are lot of shape activities for kids that include free printables, like these lesson plans, making teaching shapes super easy!
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.
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 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.
Teaching shapes to your preschooler is more than just teaching them to name them. Learning shapes helps children identify and organize visual information, learn spatial awareness and visual discrimination. Learning shapes also helps children understand other signs and symbols, such as street signs or icons on a computer app.
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.
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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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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.Related Reading
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.
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 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.
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!
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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SUMMARY OF THE LESSON 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;
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.
- 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.
Display material:
halt nameplates; 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.
Methods and techniques: explanation, indication, explanation, questions, display, game technique, encouragement, pedagogical assessment.
Lesson content:
Ι. Introductory part:
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 begins.
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.
"Let's stomp our feet - clap our hands"0003
0003 0003 0003 0003 0003 0003 Here we are in the country of geometric shapes.
Our first stop. It's called "Difficult Problems".
- Let's 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).
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?
- 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.
- Put the oval in the upper left corner.
- Place a triangle in the lower right corner.
- Well done guys, you did a great job.
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 dots are 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),
Let's make so many slopes.
How many circles we have here (7),
How many jumps we will make.
- 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 ball? (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.
Physical education:
- 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 make it 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!
- 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 backwards from 3 to 1.
Here we are in the group, but I think that we will visit the wonderful country of geometric shapes more than once.
ΙΙΙ. Summing up:
- And now evaluate your participation in the trip. If you are satisfied with your success today and evaluate your work as "excellent" - take a red flower on a tray and stick it on a poster with a picture of a flower meadow, and if you think that something did not work out for you and you could do better - take and paste a yellow flower. (Children evaluate their work).
Today you visited a fairy tale where everything is connected with mathematics. All of you tried, listened attentively, and therefore coped with all the tasks.
- What tasks did you find interesting? Which ones are difficult? What tasks did you complete faster?
- The lesson is over, thanks to the Old Man-forester for our fabulous journey!
Outline of a lesson for children with disabilities on the development of elementary mathematical concepts Topic: Geometric shapes
Outline of an individual lesson for children with disabilities on the development of elementary mathematical concepts
Subject: " Geometric shapes "
The lesson is intended for children of older preschool age.
Purpose: Generalization of previously acquired knowledge about geometric shapes and their properties.
Correctional and educational tasks:
1. Strengthen the child's ideas about geometric shapes.
2. Exercise the child in identifying geometric shapes based on verbal description and visual perception.
3. Continue to develop the ability to classify geometric shapes according to one of the features.
4. Learn to design objects from geometric shapes, learn to recognize geometric shapes in surrounding objects.
5. Practice the skills of coherent, dialogic speech.
Correction and development tasks:
1. To promote the development of spatial representations, figurative and logical thinking, visual memory, attention, creative imagination, fantasy.
2. Develop fine motor skills.
Correctional and educational tasks:
1. To form psychological contact, mutual understanding and cooperation, perseverance, diligence.
2. To develop emotional responsiveness, goodwill.
Equipment: d/and "Dyenysh's Logic Blocks", d/and "Pick a Figure", pictures of geometric shapes, pictures with fairy-tale characters, coloring books, colored pencils, a set of geometric shapes-templates.
Lesson type:
Course of the lesson
1. Organizational moment. - Hello, (child's name)!
Fairy-tale heroes Masha and the Bear came to our lesson today.
They did not come empty-handed, and prepared tasks and questions for you, to which you will have to find the correct answers.
2. Updating previously acquired knowledge:
Teacher:
Look what Masha and the Bear brought you. The teacher lays out on the table geometric figures from the d / and "Logic Blocks of Youngysh"). Let's remember what these shapes are called and name their colors. (The child alternately names the shapes and their colors). Well done, now let's play! Now I will mix all the shapes, and you will have to find and give me all the yellow triangles.
(The child finds yellow triangles and gives them to the teacher). Okay, now find all the blue circles. (The teacher calls all the figures and their colors in turn, the student finds the right ones). See what shapes are left and name their colors. Well done, you did very well!
3. The game "Remember" (training of visual memory and voluntary attention):
Teacher:
- You coped with the first task, well done! Now look carefully at this row of figures and try to remember everything. (The teacher shows the child a strip of paper with drawn figures for 20 seconds, the child looks and remembers) And now I will hide the picture, and you try to remember and name all the figures that were depicted on it. (The child names the figures) Well done, now arrange the figures as they stood in the picture. Okay, let's see if you got it right! (The teacher shows the child a sample, finds errors together with the student. The game is repeated several times.
4. "Magic bag" (a game for developing tactile sensations, recognizing geometric shapes):
Teacher:
- Look what I have! This is a "magic bag" and today you can play with it.
Close eyes! (the child closes his eyes, the teacher places one geometric figure on the bottom of the “magic bag” (using the geometric figures from
d / and “Logic Blocks Youngish”. Now put your hand in the box and try to determine which figure is hidden in it. Get the figure can't!
(The game is repeated several times. Opening his eyes, the child calls the color of the figure).
5. Finger game "Kittens" (development of thinking, visual perception, fine motor skills).
Teacher:
- Before we continue to play, let's stretch our fingers! Look at me carefully and repeat the movements
(Put your hands together,
press your fingers together.
rest your elbows on the table)
Our kitty has ten kittens,
(we shake our hands without separating them).
Now all the kittens are in pairs:
Two fat, two dexterous,
Two long, two cunning,
Two smallest, the most
And the most beautiful.
(we tap with the corresponding fingers
against each other from the thumb to the little finger).
- And now count, how many kittens do we have in the picture?
Compare kittens. How are they similar and how are they different?
- Count how many triangles are in the picture?
- And how many circles?
- And now, let's color our kittens.
7. "Funny pictures" (training of fine motor skills, development of visual perception, imagination)
Teacher:
- Our fingers have a rest, now let's work a little. Let's dream up with you and make funny pictures from the figures, and then we will make an application out of them. (If the child has difficulty completing the task and cannot independently compose a picture using geometric shapes, the teacher offers him a sample).
Game "Pick a figure" (training of visual perception, attention, logical thinking, coherent speech).
-And now I put in the center a figure with the image of a circle (oval, triangle, rhombus, etc.),
and you have to choose the pictures corresponding to the figure.
