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Week 9: Shapes Around Us

Shapes are everywhere once you look for them. This week connects flat shapes to real objects and counts their sides and corners.

What your child is practicing

Matching shapes to real things
Counting sides and corners
Combining shapes into a picture

This week's worksheets

Printable worksheet with a circle, square, rectangle and triangle to connect to a clock, window, door and tent

Early Math
~8 min

Shapes in the World

Match flat shapes to real things: a clock, window, door and tent.

Printable worksheet with a triangle, square, rectangle and hexagon with boxes to write the number of sides and corners

Early Math
~10 min

Count the Sides

Count the sides and corners of each shape and write the numbers.

Printable worksheet with dashed outlines of a star, hexagon, oval, diamond, rectangle and triangle to trace

Fine Motor
~10 min

Trace More Shapes

Trace a star, hexagon, oval, diamond, rectangle and triangle starting at the green dot.

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

Early Math
~15 min

Build a House with Shapes

Cut out a square, triangle, rectangle and windows, then glue them into a house.

Try it off paper: Shape walk

Walk around the house or street and find a circle, a rectangle and a triangle. Take a photo of each.

Parent tip

Use the words "sides" and "corners" while you point and count. The vocabulary sticks quickly.