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SC Math Standards: Geometry Part 1

  • Emily J.
  • Monday, October 19, 2020
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As children build and create with shapes, they develop a deeper understanding of the mathematical principals of geometry.

Children discover that shapes have lines and angels. They see how 2 dimensional objects have width and height, and 3 dimensional objects have width, height, and depth. Learning the mathematical terms and calculating numbers will come much later, but understanding how an object looks and feels will establish a mental picture. This mental picture will prove to be very important in the future as children are introduced to more abstract concepts because they have developed real-world connections.

In Tana Hoban’s wordless book Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, children observe shapes hidden in plain sight. This book is a perfect leap into how shapes exist in the world around us. Find shapes around your house or in your backyard and play a game of eye-spy, or take pictures to create your own shapes book. Talk about the difference between a 2D and 3D shape. How are they alike? How are they different?

Girl building with blocks.

SC Kindergarten Math Standard: Geometry 

  • Your child can identify shapes from everyday life like triangles, circles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, spheres, cones, cubes, and cylinders
  • Your child can classify shapes as 2-dimensional (flat) or 3-dimensional (solid)
  • Your child can draw 2-dimensional shapes and make models of 3-dimensional shapes
  • Your child can analyze shapes of different sizes and positions. Compare the differences
  • Your child can describe simple repeating patterns like shapes, colors, and activities found in a shirt, drawing, or game

 

 Multimedia 

What does it mean when an object is 3-dimensional? How is it different from a 2-dimensional object? Learn how to identify 2D and 3D objects by learning about a square and a cube. 

Find more educational videos from BrainPop Jr. to support to support this standard in the links below:

Solid Shapes Plain Shapes  Patterns  Sides, Turns and Flips

Activities:

At this stage of development, emphasize hands-on learning. Build your own 3D shapes from marshmallows and pretzel sticks, or playdough and toothpicks. Find more creative hands-on activities in these math blogs:

You Clever Monkey

Kindergarten Works

 

Tie three subjects together, Math, Science, and Art, in this cross-curricular activity from the Artful Parent .

The Artful Parent: How to Make Paper Shapes

 

The kindergarten and 1st grade Geometry Standards are closely linked together and many of the books, activities, and videos can be used to teach both grades.

SC First Grade Math Standard: Geometry

  • Your child can identify shapes like hexagons (stop signs), trapezoids (kites), etc.
  • Your child understands that the number of sides define a shape and that color does not define a shape. This is called defining and non-defining attributes.
  • Your child can combine 2-dimensional shapes or 3-dimensional shapes to make new shapes
  • Your child can divide 2-dimensional shapes into 2 or 4 equal parts

Multimedia 

Learn how to combine shapes to create new shapes using pattern blocks. Here's a free pattern block printable.

Activities 

Discover ways to bring this first grade standard to life by exploring the activities in the following blogs.

The Owl Teacher: 10 Ways to Review the Attributes of Geometric Shapes

Easy Teaching Tools: The Perfect Activity for your Geometry Unit

Miss Giraffe’s Class: Composing Shapes

TumbleMath

 

Tumble Math has a library packed with titles to teach any math concept, including geometry. You can access Tumble Math for free with your Richland Library card.

Ready to move forward to the next lessons in Geometry? Try Geometry Part 2 for 2nd and 3rd graders. 

 

Looking for more resources to teach the SC Education Standards? Visit Richland Library's SC Education Standard's page.  

The titles below will help you and your child discuss shapes and patterns . Want us to pull books for you? Contact us at 803-799-9084 and request to have books sent to your nearest Richland Library location.

 

Museum Shapes

Museum Shapes

Published in 2005
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
"Produced by the Department of Special Publications, The Metropolitan Museum of Art"--ECIP title page verso.
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Triangles

Triangles

Adler, David A.
Published in 2014
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Big Box of Shapes

Big Box of Shapes

Blevins, Wiley, author.
Published in 2016
22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Rectangles

Rectangles

Borth, Teddy, author.
Published in 2016
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm.
Includes index.
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Squares

Squares

Borth, Teddy, author.
Published in 2016
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm.
Includes index.
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Circles, Stars, and Squares

Circles, Stars, and Squares

Looking for Shapes
Brocket, Jane.
Published in 2013
30 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Which One Doesn't Belong?

Which One Doesn't Belong?

Playing with Shapes
Danielson, Christopher, author.
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails

Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails

Patterns & Shapes-- Naturally
Franco, Betsy.
Published in 2008
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Watch This!

Watch This!

A Book About Making Shapes
Godwin, Jane, 1964- author.
Published in 2020
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Cubes, Cones, Cylinders & Spheres

Cubes, Cones, Cylinders & Spheres

Hoban, Tana.
Published in 2000
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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Shapes, Shapes, Shapes

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes

Hoban, Tana.
Published in 1986
32 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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Zoe's Hats

Zoe's Hats

A Book of Colors and Patterns
Holm, Sharon Lane.
Published in 2003
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Changes, Changes.

Changes, Changes.

Hutchins, Pat, 1942-2017.
Published in 1971
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
801299 1395 cwa.
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Circles and Spheres

Circles and Spheres

Leech, Bonnie Coulter.
Published in 2007
24 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 x 26 cm.
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Polygons

Polygons

Leech, Bonnie Coulter.
Published in 2007
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Includes index.
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Prisms

Prisms

Leech, Bonnie Coulter.
Published in 2007
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
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Pyramids

Pyramids

Leech, Bonnie Coulter.
Published in 2007
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
Includes index.
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Seeing Symmetry

Seeing Symmetry

Leedy, Loreen.
Published in 2012
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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The Wing Wing Brothers Geometry Palooza!

The Wing Wing Brothers Geometry Palooza!

Long, Ethan, author.
Published in 2014
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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Give Me Half!

Give Me Half!

Murphy, Stuart J., 1942-
Published in 1996
34 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
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City Shapes

City Shapes

Murray, Diana.
Published in 2016
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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3-D ABC

3-D ABC

A Sculptural Alphabet
Raczka, Bob.
Published in 2007
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Shapes

Shapes

Rotner, Shelley, author, photographer (expression).
Published in 2020
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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So Many Shapes!

So Many Shapes!

A Spot-it, Learn-it Challenge ; Photos by Karon Dubke.
Schuette, Sarah L., 1976- author.
Published in 2014
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Nature's Paintbrush

Nature's Paintbrush

The Patterns and Colors Around You
Stockdale, Susan.
Published in 1999
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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Round is a Mooncake

Round is a Mooncake

A Book of Shapes
Thong, Roseanne.
Published in 2000
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Round is a Tortilla

Round is a Tortilla

A Book of Shapes
Thong, Roseanne.
Published in 2013
1 volume (unpaged ) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Mouse Shapes

Mouse Shapes

Walsh, Ellen Stoll.
Published in 2007
1 volume : color illustrations ; 19 x 23 cm
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Emily J.

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