🔷 Helping with Shapes
Everything you need to help — without doing it for them.
🧭 Simple explanation (for you)
Shapes are everywhere: circles (coins, wheels), squares and rectangles (books, doors), triangles (roofs, pizza slices). Count the sides and corners — that is how we tell them apart.
❓ Questions to ask
- “How many sides?”
- “How many corners?”
- “Where do you see this shape?”
- “Which shapes are the same?”
💡 Hints (not answers)
- Shape hunt around the house
- Draw shapes and count sides
- Build shapes with sticks or straws
- Sort objects by shape
🏡 Practice activity
The shape hunt: find five real objects for each shape — circle, square, triangle, rectangle.
Need the bigger picture?
See the principles of helping without doing.