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Recognizing Shapes

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What are these shapes? Learners examine pairs of six familiar shapes: circle, oval, triangle, hexagon, square, and rectangle. Each pair is placed together because of a common attribute, which is described above. Learners name the shapes before looking at an explanation below. Consider projecting this as an all-class warm up, covering up the answers until scholars have shared responses. Also, cover up the commonality of each shape pair and challenge kids to figure it out! 

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circles, even numbers, odd numbers, numbers, ovals, pentagons, polygons, rectangles, quadrilaterals, sides, squares, triangles

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circle, even, odd, square, triangle, name shapes, oval, pentagon, rectangle, sides, tri, Prefix, recognize shapes, equal lengths, math
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