Pre-K Standards:

V.C.1. Child names common shapes.

V.C.2. Child creates shapes.

Learning Center
Materials: 3 Shape templates with shapes and Velcro. 3 playdough containers.
Set Up:
I will set up the center in the math area of the room where the students can see the
different shapes posted by the door. I will have 2 place mats (used when playing with
playdough), 2 playdough containers and 2 shape templates set up for each student. I
will also have my own playdough and template for modeling and guided practice.
Learning Event: To start off the center I will ask students to name some shape names
that they already know. Next, we will look at the shape template together looking at
each shape. We will say the name of the shape for example square. I will say a square
has four sides while running my finger through each side of the square, then pointing at
each point of the square and finally asking the students to place the square to its
corresponding place on the shape template. I will do this for all 4 shapes. After going
over the sides and points of each shape, I will tell the students they can make shapes
using the playdough. I will show them how I make a circle with the playdough
Anticipated Modification(s):
Five questions to Ask (different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy):

Remembering – What shapes did we talk about today?

Understanding – how many sides does a square have?
Understanding – How many sides does a rectangle have?
Analyzing – how is a square and a triangle different from each other?
Creating – Who can show me what a triangle looks like using the playdough?

Assessment of the Standard(s):

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Student can Yes Yes Yes Yes

Identify Circle

Student can Yes Yes Yes Yes

identify
Square

Student can Yes No Yes Yes

identify
triangle

Student can Yes No No Yes

identify
rectangle

Student can Yes No No Yes

name points
on each shape

Student can Yes Knows where Counted 1 for Yes

name sides on the sides are circle.
each shape but doesn’t
count the sides
accurately.

Student can Named oval, No Oval, heart, Oval, heart

name other and stop sign star
shapes? shape (didn’t
know the
name)

Student can Compared Compared Compared oval Compared

compare circles to squares to to the earrings circle to clock
shapes to wheels, windows. I was wearing.
everyday rectangle to
objects door, triangle to
roof, square to
lunchbox
Student can Made a house Could not Made a car Made a plane
create other using a triangle create using a using an oval
things using and a square anything. rectangle and and two
shapes. two circles triangles