Kindergartners love making things, and this activity allows them to create a unique shape monster and practice numbers recording the shapes used.
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- BetterLesson
- Date Added:
- 12/01/2022
Kindergartners love making things, and this activity allows them to create a unique shape monster and practice numbers recording the shapes used.
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking
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