FREE Shape Recognition 2 Piece Puzzles
Apart from counting, recognizing numbers, decomposing numbers (1 to 19), subitizing, measuring, adding and subtracting, classifying objects, working with shapes is a very important aspect of teaching math in kindergarten.
Kids don’t just need to recognize basic shapes, but also to operate with them, for example:
to identify shapes,
to describe objects around them using names of shapes,
to build shapes from other objects (such as sticks, beads, playdough, buttons, etc.),
to analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes.
Before I studied preschool and primary school pedagogy, all these seemed odd to me. How can a kindergartener know so many things?! But kids learn very fast by doing: through pretend play, games, songs, rhymes, they are able to grasp concepts they wouldn’t by just observing the adults.
Here’s a free game that you can download and then use to practice shapes (just click on the link).
It contains more shapes than kindergarteners need to know, but the pages can be printed separately.