Shape Pictures

Our Common Core State Standards for Geometry in Kindergarten state:

1.  Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes

2.  Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size

3.  Identify shapes as two-dimensional or three-dimensional

4.  Analyze and compare two and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts, and other attributes.

5.  Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components and drawing shapes

6.  Compose simble shapes to form larger shapes.

 

 

Children used shapes to recreate a picture, then traced around the shapes to make their own shape picture of a barn and silo.

 

Children used shapes to recreate a picture of a rocket, then traced around the shapes to make their own shape pictures.  Do you notice that none of these rockets are the same?  Our students are learning that there are many correct answers to a problem.

 

Children used shapes to recreate a picture of a fish, then traced around the shapes to make their own shape picture.  Isn't Math fun?