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INTRODUCTION

On the news today, a famous lawmaker said, “Shapes are useless. People can’t eat shapes. They can’t ride in shapes. They can’t work or play in shapes.” The lawmaker wants to pass a law to get rid of all the shapes in the world. Unless someone can prove that shapes are important, all shapes soon could be banned from the country. No more morning circle activities! No more stars on perfect papers! No more Valentine hearts!

TASK

To keep the law from being passed, you and your classmates must prove that shapes are important.

Work alone or with a partner to complete the activities.

• Step 1: Click to hear the Story of Shapes. Complete the Shape Activity worksheet your teacher gives you.
• Step 2: Click to Learn Your Colors and Shapes. Complete the Shapes and Colors worksheet your teacher gives you.
• Step 3: Cut out the balloon on the Balloon worksheet your teacher gives you. Glue the balloon to a piece of black paper. Cut out the shapes at the bottom of the Balloon worksheet. Glue the shapes to the correct spaces inside the balloon. Glue cotton ball clouds to the black paper. Write your name on your paper.
• Step 4: Click to see some Circles, Squares, Triangles, Rectangles, Ovals, and Diamonds in the world. Then, look around your classroom. Find one object that's the same shape as each of the shapes on the Shape Scavenger Hunt worksheet. Draw a picture of that object on the worksheet.
• Step 5: Listen to The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, by Dr. Seuss, and make a list of why shapes are important. Then, play Shape Bingo with your classmates.
• Step 6: Take home the Shapes Coloring Book to color with your family.

RESOURCES

• Circles
• Diamonds
• Learn Your Colors and Shapes
• Ovals
• Rectangles
• Squares
• Story of Shapes
• Traffic Sign Quiz for Kids
• Triangles

EVALUATION

• work and pay attention.
• do the Shape Activity worksheet.
• do the Shapes and Colors worksheet.
• do the Balloon worksheet.
• do the Shape Scavenger Hunt worksheet.

CONCLUSION

No more street signs? Do you know what the shape and color of street signs mean? Click Traffic Sign Quiz for Kids. Then do the Shapes and Signs worksheet.

Click here for the Shapes and Colors Teacher Page.

Article by Linda Starr
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