Shape anchor chart

First grade 3D shape anchor chart

2-D Shapes Anchor Chart

We are about finished with our shape study (introduction/review). Most of my kiddos come in knowing their colors and shapes, but it’s fun to do a bit of a review, just to be certain. One of my awesome Kindergarten colleagues uses the Roger Hargreaves books to review shapes. She even has the most AMAZING puppets that another colleague made for her. I wish I had a picture, but you have to trust me that they are adorable. They are on my summer to-do list! So each week, we read one of the Roger…

Haley O'Connor on Instagram: “Composing shapes is one of my favorite math units! Even though I believe in working on number sense and story problems every day, it’s such…”

3-D shapes anchor chart for first grade. I completely borrowed this idea (as most) from another brilliant pinner and changed it slightly.

Geometry anchor chart sorting 2D and 3D shapes and naming them

We are about finished with our shape study (introduction/review). Most of my kiddos come in knowing their colors and shapes, but it’s fun to do a bit of a review, just to be certain. One of my awesome Kindergarten colleagues uses the Roger Hargreaves books to review shapes. She even has the most AMAZING puppets that another colleague made for her. I wish I had a picture, but you have to trust me that they are adorable. They are on my summer to-do list! So each week, we read one of the Roger…

Lesson plans, activities and ideas for kindergarten classrooms, including math problem-solving, reading workshop, writer's workshop, inquiry-based science journals, literacy centers and more!

Shape friends - a fun way to introduce kindergarteners to shapes and their attributes!

2D Shape Attribute Anchor Chart

Quadrilateral shape attributes anchor chart

Well, the month is over, and I guess I’m SUPER slow in getting up pictures of my October Calendar book. So, here goes! Our October song: We sing this song too: Then our monthly page… it’s difficult to see, but we crossed out one penny for every day of the week and then sang our penny song. And our weather tracker….the children LOVE this page. Before we do this page, we check the temperature and draw it on the thermometer on our IWB (if you are an Everyday Math user, you’ll know about this…

My 3-d shape parts anchor chart More

Looking for some strategies you can use when teaching 2D shapes in kindergarten? In this post, I break down some of my favorite ways to teaching 2D shapes including resources and 2D shape anchor chart ideas.

Do you look on Pinterest for Anchor Chart ideas and give up at the thought that your Anchor Chart could never look that amazing? It actually doesn’t have to be that difficult to make an amazi…