Lesson Plan
Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes
Use this great lesson to get your students interested in learning about basic shapes! This lesson integrates a sensory activity with learning and lets students get a little messy.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify various basic shapes and colors. Students will be able to identify one defining characteristic of each shape.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Introduce the lesson by holding up an object such as a ball. Ask your students to identify the object and shape.
- Explain to your students that they will be learning about shapes.
- To help introduce shapes, have each student go around the classroom and select one object.
- Go around the room and have each student identify the shape of his object.
Beginning
- Collect shape examples for students to explore during the introduction.
- Provide students with shape names in their home language (L1) using a glossary.
Intermediate
- Invite students to turn and talk to share with a partner the shape of the item they collected.