2D Shapes

Shape Recognizer—Typical

Sub Trajectory: Classifying

Recognizes and names typical circle, square, and sometimes a typical triangle. May physically rotate shapes presented in atypical orientations to visually match them to a prototype. Sometimes names different sizes, shapes, and orientations of rectangles, but also calls some shapes "rectangles" that look rectangular but are not rectangles.

Activities

You may see this:

Other Examples:

Child correctly identifies the triangle from a group of one circle, two typical rectangles, and one typical triangle.
Children finds things in the world that are circles, such as breakfast plates, the bottom of cups, tires, and the end of garden hoses.

Help your student become a(n) Shape Recognizer—Typical

Discussions invite children to name shapes that are common in the culture, circles and squares, then triangles. Many find it easiest to start with prototypical examples--squares and equilateral (all sides the same length) triangles with the base horizontal. (However, include other examples as soon as possible to avoid having children think these are the only examples. See the next level.)