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🧮 Kindergarten · MathK.G.A.1Unit 4: Shapes: 2D and 3D

Position words

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🎯 Objective: Students describe where objects are using above, below, beside, in front of, behind and next to.

Lesson outline

  1. Play “Simon says” with a beanbag: put it above your head, beside your foot.
  2. Model describing classroom objects with position words.
  3. Students hide a teddy and give a partner position clues.
  4. Exit: finish “The clock is ___ the door.”

Lesson 1 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

K.G.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres
  • Describe shapes and their positions using words like above, below, beside

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Geometry📚 All Kindergarten skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Shapes: 2D and 3D”

  1. Position words
  2. Circles, triangles and squares
  3. Rectangles and hexagons
  4. Flat or solid?
  5. Cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres
  6. Build and compose shapes

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