Ten shape puzzles on five pages. Each puzzle is an outline, a picture like a house, a rocket or a sailboat, or a big square or rectangle, with its pieces to cut out below it: triangles, squares and rectangles that fill the outline exactly, with no gaps and nothing left over. The two puzzles on a page are marked with a star and a heart, and each piece carries its puzzle's mark, so the two sets do not get mixed up. The puzzle's name says how many pieces it takes. Pages 1 and 2 (house, tree, rocket, big rectangle) show dashed lines where the pieces meet, so students match each piece to its place. On page 3 (butterfly, duck) only the outline is shown. On pages 4 and 5 (sailboat, big square, cat, robot) the pieces are also turned, so students turn them to make them fit.
Start with a real puzzle: hold up the house's square and triangle and ask how they could make a house. On the hint pages, ask students to find the piece that fits each dashed space before gluing anything. On the later pages, let them lay all the pieces in the outline first, move and turn them until the shape is full, and only then glue. Ask: which shapes did you use? How many triangles make the big square?
Cut out the pieces together and let your child try before gluing. If a piece does not fit, ask "Can you turn it?" Afterward, look for shapes made of shapes at home: a window of four squares, a sandwich cut into two triangles.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page cut-and-glue shape puzzle pack for kindergarten and 1st grade. Each page has two outline puzzles, a house, a tree, a rocket, a butterfly, a duck, a sailboat, a cat, a robot, a big square and a big rectangle, and the triangles, squares and rectangles that fill them. Students cut out the pieces and fit them together to fill each shape. Pages 1 and 2 show dashed lines where the pieces meet; on pages 3 to 5 only the outline is shown, and the pieces are turned. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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