Tutoring

GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL SENSE

TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES

1. Please review squares with your child. How many sides do they have? Are these sides equal or different? How many squares can you find at home? What is the biggest square that you can find? What is the smallest square you can find? Can you find a blue square? A green/red/white/black square?

With your child, talk about how the “fancy” name for a corner is “vertice” (ver-ti-see). So, a square will have four sides and 4 vertices (corners). When talking with your child about what a square looks like, use the word “vertice” as much as you can.
Practice Play “Eye Spy” with your child. Look around the room and find a square in the room. Don’t tell your child what it is. Say, “I spy with my little eye a square. What is it?” Your child then has to guess what it is. Take turns being the guesser.

Practice Get a timer and set it for one minute. How many squares can you draw in one minute? How many squares can your child draw in one minute?

Practice Draw a picture using only squares.

Extension: Find a picture on a cereal box/magazine/etc. With your child, find and outline any squares found in the picture. Cut them out and glue them on a sheet of paper to make a picture.

Extension: When you are in the community or at home, try to use these words when you are talking with your child. (E.g., Sarangan, please pass the that rectangular piece of paper/that circular coin/that square book etc.)

2. Please review circles with your child. How many sides do they have? Are these sides equal or different? How many circles can you find at home? What is the biggest circles that you can find at home? What is the smallest circle you can find? Can you find a blue circle? A green/red/white/black circle?

With your child, talk about how the “fancy” name for a corner is “vertice” (ver-ti-see). So, a circle will have only 1 side and 0 vertices (corners). When talking with your child about what a square looks like, use the word “vertice” as much as you can.

Practice Play “Eye Spy” with your child. Look around the room and find a circle in the room. Don’t tell your child what it is. Say, “I spy with my little eye a circle. What is it?” Your child then has to guess what it is. Take turns being the guesser.

Practice Get a timer and set it for one minute. How many circles can you draw in one minute? How many circles can your child draw in one minute?

Practice Draw a picture using only circles.

Practice Find a picture on a cereal box/magazine/etc. With your child, find and outline any circles found in the picture. Cut them out and glue them on a sheet of paper to make a picture.

Practice When you are in the community or at home, try to use these words when you are talking with your child. (E.g., Sarangan, please pass the that rectangular piece of paper/that circular coin/that square book etc.)

3. Please review triangles with your child. How many sides do they have? Are these sides equal or different? How many triangles can you find at home? What is the biggest triangle that you can find at home? What is the smallest triangle you can find? Can you find a blue triangle? A green/red/white/black triangle?

With your child, talk about how the “fancy” name for a corner is “vertice” (ver-ti-see). So, a triangle will have 3 sides and 3 vertices (corners). When talking with your child about what a triangle looks like, use the word “vertice” as much as you can.

Practice Play “Eye Spy” with your child. Look around the room and find a triangle in the room. Don’t tell your child what it is. Say, “I spy with my little eye a triangle. What is it?” Your child then has to guess what it is. Take turns being the guesser.

Practice: Get a timer and set it for one minute. How many triangles can you draw in one minute? How many triangles can your child draw in one minute?

Practice Draw a picture using only triangles.

Practice Find a picture on a cereal box/magazine/etc. With your child, find and outline any triangles found in the picture. Cut them out and glue them on a sheet of paper to make a picture.

4. Please review rectangles with your child. How many sides do they have? Are these sides equal or different? How is a rectangle different from a square? How many rectangles can you find at home? What is the biggest rectangle that you can find at home? What is the smallest rectangle you can find? Can you find a blue rectangle? A green/red/white/black rectangle?

With your child, talk about how the “fancy” name for a corner is “vertice” (ver-ti-see). So, a rectangle will have 4 sides and 4 vertices (corners). When talking with your child about what a rectangle looks like, use the word “vertice” as much as you can.

Practice: Play “Eye Spy” with your child. Look around the room and find a rectangle in the room. Don’t tell your child what it is. Say, “I spy with my little eye a rectangle. What is it?” Your child then has to guess what it is. Take turns being the guesser.

Practice Get a timer and set it for one minute. How many rectangles can you draw in one minute? How many rectangles can your child draw in one minute?

Practice Draw a picture using only rectangles.

Practice: Find a picture on a cereal box/magazine/etc. With your child, find and outline any rectangles found in the picture. Cut them out and glue them on a sheet of paper to make a picture.

5) Please review with your child two-dimensional shapes (i.e., square, rectangle, triangle, and circle). Describe the shape and ask them to tell you what it is. (e.g., “I am thinking of a shape that has 4 equal sides. What is it?”) Have a game of “I spy” with using the 4 shapes (e.g., I spy with my little eye something that is a triangle…”)

6) Please review with your child the following shapes: oval, diamond, pentagon (5 sides), hexagon (6 sides) and octagon (8 sides). Work with your child to draw and label these shapes. Please use any of the activities that I suggested when learning about squares, rectangles, circles and triangles.

7) For this activity, you will need toothpicks, and plastecine/small marshmallows. With your child, make as many different kinds of shapes as you can using the toothpicks as the sides and the plastecine to join them. What can you make using a number of different shapes?

8) This week, we have been learning about regular and irregular polygons. A regular polygon is one of the shapes that we have been studying (i.e., a square, triangle, rectangle, octagon, etc). An irregular polygon is a shape that has any number of sides that are of different shapes (i.e., any shape that is NOT a triangle, square, etc).

Regular Polygon Irregular Polygon

On a sheet of paper, draw 4 regular polygons and 4 irregular polygons (make sure you mix them up and that they are big enough so that it is easy for your child to cut out). Ask your child to cut them out and then sort them into groups (i.e., Regular and Irregular polygons).

Each night, I would suggest that you just review with them the meaning of the word polygon, irregular polygons, and regular polygons.

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