A fabulous lesson plan on identifying circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles awaits your students. They use large motor skills hopping from shape to shape, use visual and kinesthetic skills passing a ball of yarn between three...

Pupils show what they know about shapes with a game that matches a shape word to its figure. Shapes in focus are circle, square, triangle, heart, diamond, rectangle, oval, and a star. 

Your kindergartners know their shapes - but can they identify their locations? A 3x3 grid contains geometric shapes such as diamonds, circles, and hexagons, and pupils locate the shapes within the grid. Which shape is underneath the...

Intended for young English language learners, these worksheets offer scaffolding for youngsters to practice writing the names of colors and shapes. The first provides the most help, and the third provides almost no help at all....

In this polygon activity, students identify and create a six-pointed star by completing 6 steps. First, they use a compass to trace a circle with a given radius. Then, students draw a point on circumference of the circle and place the...

So many shapes in our vast oceans. Young explorers can discover new shapes in a variety of ways in this lesson. One way is having free exploration with a pattern shape kit handed out by the teacher. Another is by viewing a...

"Now is the summer of our happiness/Made winter by this sudden, fierce attack!" Luke Skywalker meets Hamlet in a 10-lesson unit based on Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope. Using Star Wars® as source...

Here are some fun preposition challenges for your pupils! They draw familiar pairs of shapes (triangle, circle, square, star, and diamond) based on relative location prompts. The terms include beside, above,...

Shapes are so fun! Little ones explore, identify, and create shapes using tangrams or pattern blocks. The activity is intended to stimulate critical thinking while engaging learners through play and shape identification. Each child will...

Combine math and language arts in the same lesson with a reading passage about number prefixes in geometric shapes. After reading several short paragraphs about the different prefixes used in shape names, kids answer five comprehension...

Young English language learners trace color vocabulary words on the lines and match it to the correct illustration. A visual and direct approach to developing color vocabulary! 

In this shape instructional activity, students identify and trace a star and write its name on the primary paper lines provided. Students complete two star activities.

Students explore body movement.  In this shapes and dance lesson, students demonstrate body movements and positions that resemble simple shapes.  Students read I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait and choose shapes from the...

Learners read about the objects we see in our night and day skies before answering five short answer comprehension questions.

Are your English language learners developing color-related vocabulary? Use this word search to reinforce their new vocabulary words! Some of the words are backwards and diagonal! Keep this in mind for young learners!

There's only one way out of this maze, and youngsters will need to use their shape recognition skills to do it! They follow a three-shape pattern all the way from start to finish to keep on track. Encourage them to say the shapes as they...

In this shapes worksheet, students cut out 6 bingo cards, color the call cards with 4 different colors and then participate in playing a bingo game with 6 different shapes.

In this Language Arts worksheet, students participate in a variety of activities related to the novel Number the Stars. For example, students write a list of words form the book in alphabetical order and complete a star-shaped word search.

In this shapes worksheet, students identify and trace twelve shapes and then color them according to the directions. Students complete twenty-four activities.

In this following directions worksheet, students will follow 5 directions to color various shapes including stars, squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.

Support your pupils as they learn how to combine words to form sentences and as they work on learning the words for colors and shapes. Kids correctly align words into simple sentences that describe specific colors and shapes.

In this patterns learning exercise, 6th graders identify and complete 12 different problems that include patterns of various shapes and pictures. First, they analyze the pattern seen in each problem. Then, students determine what comes...

In this shapes activity based on The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, by Dr. Seuss, students write names of shapes of pictures shown. A website reference is given for additional resources.

In this shape tracing worksheet, students will trace and color seven different dancing shape people. The shapes include a star, heart, and diamond.