Collected Resources

3-D Shapes

• Give each child a 3-D shape to hold.
• Display images of 3-D shapes on the interactive whiteboard OR stick 3-D shapes to the board using masking tape or sticky-tack.
• Display a 3 by 3 grid of different shapes (see download).
• Describe a shape by its position, e.g. It is above the black cuboid. OR It is beside the green cube.
• Any child holding the same shape as the one you are describing, should stand up, i.e. any child holding a cube would stand up if you made the first statement.
• Repeat, continuing to describe a shape on the grid with reference to its position.

Songs

The Grand Old Duke of York

Little Miss Muffet

Incey Wincey Spider

Half a pound of tuppenny rice. In this song, change the ‘on’ the table, to ‘under’ the table or to ‘beside’ the table, etc. Note up and down and in and out … what other position words could we use?

Story

Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

Little Star and other Shapes by J. Y. Quinn