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Think Tiles with Geometric Shapes on Them
While teaching kindergartners how to analyze a person or an animal for basic shapes, it dawned on me that tiles could be made with geometric shapes and forms(for art)/geometric solids (for math). This would have multiple uses as one could use them to show the match of shapes to forms; how to flatten forms into shapes for drawing or painting; for knowing names of shapes and forms. We use "Mr.Shape Man" to teach children how to draw a person: Head-circle or oval; neck-rectangle; upper torso-square or trapezoid; lower torso-square or trapezoid; legs to knee-2 rectangles; legs from knee to ankle-2 rectangles; foot-right angle triangle; upper arms-2 rectangles; lower arms-2 rectangles;
hands-two squares;finger-10 small rectangles. You would need multiples of some shapes to use them in this way. A face could be analyzed with shapes in the same way. We will use this way to learn to analyze a squirrel so students will be able to draw one when starting the unit on squirrels. adapting to different seasons. You could arrange shapes by straight sides, curved sides or by number of sides, etc.
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