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Shapes Activities and Lessons

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A fabulous lesson 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 people to form a triangle. Additionally, they use their auditory skills to sing songs and recite poems.

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circles, rectangles, polygons, quadrilaterals, shapes, squares, triangles

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circle, rectangle, shapes, square, triangle, english language arts
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Grade
Pre-K - K
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Simulation

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