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    • ▾Kindergarten
      • ▸Counting and place value
        • •Counting from pictures, oral response
        • •Counting objects by property
        • •Counting to 100 by ones
        • •Counting to 100 by tens
        • •Counting on by ones or tens
        • •Understanding zero
        • •Write numbers
        • •Counting objects, line or rectangular array
        • •Counting objects, scattered and circular arrangements
        • •Compare by matching or counting
        • •Compare written numerals
        • •Counting by category
        • •Count, represent and write teen numbers
      • ▸Addition and subtraction
        • •Add and subtract within 5
        • •Composing and decomposing within 10
        • •Addition, missing number word problems
        • •Addition and subtraction, concrete and visual
        • •Add and subtract within 10
      • ▾Measurement and geometry
        • •Compare measurements without tools
        • •Measurement tools
        • •Naming shapes in the real-world
        • •Naming shapes regardless of orientation or size
        • •Relative positions
        • •Identify shapes and solids
        • •Compare attributes of shapes and solids
        • •Build solids
        • •Compose 2D shapes
        • •Simple repeating patterns
        • •Growing patterns
     › Kindergarten › Measurement and geometry

    Naming shapes in the real-world

    Identify rectangles, squares, circles, and triangles in the real-world. This should include physical objects and objects in photos. Also, might as well have them identify shapes in art too, maybe in abstract or geometric art. For now, we’re avoiding the idea of subsets, so if you ask which shapes are rectangles, don’t have squares thrown in. At this age, we’re not teaching that rectangles may have sides of equal measure.

    It irritates me that the standard says shapes. Which shapes?

    Name shapes 1 by Khan Academy

    Watch these Khan Academy videos:

    • Recognizing shapes
    • Cousin Fal's shape collection

    K.G.A.1: Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.