Hello friends! I wanted to share some ideas that have worked for me during distance learning. Today, I specifically wanted to share how I taught shapes, virtually, in kindergarten. I hope these easy shape activities for distance learning help you! It is especially difficult because my students do. not have access to many materials. So we were just working with crayons, pencils, scissors, and paper. However, all of the activities turned out AMAZING! I used slides to help with visuals- however, you don’t need to! But, if you would like the visual aide, I’m giving you them for free! Sign up for my email list, and the slides will go directly to your inbox!
The first activities we did was drawing the shapes, and then turning them into something else! I did one shape a day, but you could switch it up however you choose!
I asked my students to draw the shape of the day, so if we were learning about triangles, we all drew a triangle. After they drew the shape, we turned it into something new! I hid what we were drawing to make it more exciting. When we were ready to draw, I moved the mystery question mark and we turned our triangles into watermelon!
For the triangles, we drew watermelon and pizza. We drew a window and a picture frame for the square, a sun and a snowman for the circles, and a chocolate bar and a dollar for the rectangles.
After we did the mystery shape for the day, it was time for shape city!! I instructed the kids to color and cut out a specific amount of shapes and save them. At the end of the week, we put all of the shapes together to make a shape city!
I found it easiest to do the mystery shape and the color and cut for one shape a day. So if we were learning about the triangle, we would draw a triangle and turn it into a pizza and a watermelon. Then, we would color and cut out triangles to save for our shape city. Each day, we would learn a new shape. Friday was saved for gluing our shape city together! These shape activities for distance learning are so helpful!
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