Five pages about putting solid shapes together. Page 1 starts with a worked example, then a block castle: students count its cubes, rectangular prisms, cylinders, cones, and pyramids and write each number in a table under a picture of the shape. Page 2 shows a tower and a bridge, each next to three sets of loose blocks, and students circle the set that built it. Page 3 asks whether six blocks can stack, roll, or both, then which block fits in the middle of a tower. On page 4 one block is gone from a build, and students circle the missing block. Page 5 counts the blocks in a rocket, a robot, and a bridge in a table and answers three questions about which build has the most or the fewest.
Put out real blocks before page 1 and build a small tower together, naming each block as it goes on. For page 2, build one of the sets and ask the class whether it matches the picture. Page 3 is best done with real blocks: try stacking and rolling each one, and try to put a block on top of a cone. On page 5, let partners build the rocket or the robot and count the blocks as they take it apart.
Build with whatever is in the kitchen: a box of crackers is a rectangular prism, a can is a cylinder, an orange is a sphere. Ask which ones you can stack into a tower and which ones roll away. Build something and count how many of each shape you used.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page 3D shapes pack for kindergarten and 1st grade about building with blocks. Count the cubes, rectangular prisms, cylinders, cones, and pyramids in a block castle, circle the set of loose blocks that made a build, and decide which blocks stack, which roll, and which one fits in the middle of a tower. Then find the block missing from a build, and count the blocks in a rocket, a robot, and a bridge to fill in a table and compare them. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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