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Learners participate in a number of hands-on shape-related activities. They match and sort shapes by attribute, read books about shapes, complete shape art projects and explore and compare parts of shapes.

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

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circles, rectangles, shapes, squares, triangles, math
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Grade
K
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
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Duration
5 days
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Video

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