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Week 30: Building with Shapes

Building with shapes moves from flat shapes to solid ones: spheres, cubes and cones. Children also build a robot.

What your child is practicing

Matching solid shapes to things
Telling flat and solid apart
Building with shapes

This week's worksheets

Printable worksheet connecting a sphere, cube, cylinder and cone to a ball, gift, drum and party hat

Early Math
~8 min

Solid Shapes Match

Match sphere, cube, cylinder and cone to a ball, gift, drum and party hat.

Printable worksheet with boxes for flat shapes and solid shapes and cut-out shapes to sort

Early Math
~12 min

Flat or Solid?

Cut out shapes and glue each one in the flat box or the solid box.

Printable worksheet with a model robot made of shapes and cut-out shapes to glue into a robot

Early Math
~15 min

Build a Robot with Shapes

Cut out rectangles, a square and circles and glue them into a robot.

Printable worksheet with rows of repeating shape patterns and blank boxes to draw what comes next

Thinking Skills
~10 min

Shape Patterns

Finish patterns made of circles, squares, triangles and stars.

Try it off paper: Block building

Build a tower with blocks and name each shape you use: cube, cylinder, cone.

Parent tip

Hold a real ball and a real box. Touching makes the idea of solid shapes much clearer.