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Name the shapes: Kindergarten math

Name 2-D and 3-D shapes regardless of size or orientation. A free kindergarten lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: name 2-D and 3-D shapes regardless of size or orientation.

Teach (10 min)

  • Turn a shape around and it is still the same shape.
  • Look at the sides and corners, not how it is sitting.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/geom.shape2d?lesson=k-geom-name-1&at=K

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Name the shapes (Kindergarten)

  1. What shape is this?
  2. Which picture shows a rectangle?
    ABC
  3. Which picture shows a rectangle?
    ABC
  4. What shape is this?
  5. What shape is this?
  6. Which picture shows a triangle?
    ABC
  7. What shape is this?
  8. What shape is this?
  9. Which picture shows a square?
    ABC
  10. Look at the shape on top. Which picture below shows the same kind of shape, even though it may be turned or a different size?
    This shapeABC
  11. Look at the shape on top. Which picture below shows the same kind of shape, even though it may be turned or a different size?
    This shapeABC
  12. Look at the shape on top. Which picture below shows the same kind of shape, even though it may be turned or a different size?
    This shapeABC
Key
  1. rectangle
  2. Picture A
  3. Picture B
  4. circle
  5. circle
  6. Picture A
  7. square
  8. square
  9. Picture A
  10. Picture A
  11. Picture A
  12. Picture C

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