Three-Dimensional Shapes

Over the last few weeks, my kindergartners have been learning about Three-Dimensional shape. Here are some of our favorite stations.

Making a Town Using Three-Dimensional Shapes

My students LOVED working with a friend and creating a part of the town. At large group time, we brainstormed what we needed to have in our town.

Students made little signs and will soon be making maps of the town. We will also learn about creating and giving directions. I hope to have my students create an anchor chart of meaningful words we can use. We will continue to add to this!

Guess My Secret Rule (Silent Math)

During this lesson, the teacher begins to sort shapes into a pile. 

It is called Silent Math Time because no one can talk, including the teacher! 

Students will be called on silently.  If a shape belongs it stays in the pile, but if the shape does not belong, the teacher will move it out.  When the game is over, the teacher will talk. 

"Okay class, who can tell me what the secret rule is?"

Shape Shadows

What kind of shadow will a cylinder make?

It was a little tricky to use a flashlight to see the shadows of the figures. But a

colleague suggested we put it in the natural sunlight. The kids were amazed!!

Guess My Shape

One child is IT and takes an object out of the first bag and puts it in the second bag.
We started the game with a cylinder, cone, sphere and the cube.

The person who is IT gives two clues about the shape.

I have a circle face.

I have a point.
What shape am I?

The children playing the game,
circle (on the recording sheet below) what shape they think it is.
The sheet allows them to play four rounds.

 We first started playing this game with four shapes and added two more.
After playing this game many times, the person who is IT can record their clues.

Recording Sheets

 click here for GUESS MY SHAPE RECORDING SHEET

Which Is Taller?

Students compared different 3-D objects in the classroom focusing on <, > symbols.

Anchor Chart

During interactive writing time, we recorded our observations about the 

 three dimension shapes. 

We made illustrations of real world objects.

My 3-D shape book 

My 

Vocabulary Chart

I saw this chart in Debbie Diller's Math Work Station book and I love it!

This chart is a very helpful tool for my students.

click here for Vertices sheet 

Shape Hunt

We went on a shape hunt looking for three-dimensional shapes in our environment. We took photos with our class I PADs and made a slideshow with Haiku Deck.

3 Dimensional Shapes - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires




Sources: Think Math
              Debbie Diller Math Work Stations