Compose Shapes (Kindergarten)
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Common Core for Kindergarten
Examples, solutions, videos, and songs to help Kindergarten kids learn how to compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, “Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?”
Common Core: KG 6
Suggested Learning Targets:
- I can put shapes together to make new shapes.
- I can name the new shape that results from composing two simple shapes.
- I can to use concrete materials (e.g. pattern blocks, tangrams, and shape models) to build composite figures
- I can explain how I compose my shape and name what shapes I used to make the composite shape
Composing Shapes
Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes.
Problem Solving Development: Composing Shapes
Describes different developmental levels within the Composing Geometric Shapes.
K.G.6 Compose Shapes.
What can we make with triangles? a Fish!
What can we make with circles? an Ice-cream!
Tangrams: How to Make a Square
A quick and easy way to make a square using all 7 tangrams. Easy to remember for children and adults too.
Tangrams - How to Make a Rectangle, Triangle, Parallelogram, Trapezoid.
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