There are two types of shapes
• Organic shapes
• Geometric shapes
Organic shapes are shapes that has no specific shapes and are associated with things in the environment like plants and animals .
Examples of organic shapes
Geometric Shapes
These have specific and perfect shapes. They are things like circles, rectangles, triangles, squares, oval.
Examples of organic shapes
Learners can also use sticks to draw shapes on the soil.
Learners are guided to sing action songs on shapes.
Examples of action songs on shapes are:
Make a circle, make a square
Make a circle, make a circle,
Draw it high in the sky.
Use your finger, use your finger,
Make it round, as round as pie.
Make a square, make a square,
Make the lines nice and straight.
Make a square, make a square
You could draw one or draw it eight
Make a triangle, make a triangle,
Always start at the top.
Make a tent shape for a triangle
Make three lines, and then you stop.
Making shapes using body movements
Group learners to make shapes, they can lie down, sit or stand while making the shapes.
Learners can change from one shape to the other according to how you direct them.
For example, they can make a circle shape then quickly change to rectangle then to triangle and so on.
Equally learners can make shapes by touching their body parts.
A learner can curl to make a circle, you can bend to make a rectangle.
Drawing shapes
Organic shapes
Guide learners to go outside the classroom and observe organic shapes in the environment.
They should observe things like trees, plants, animals, leaves, rocks, rivers.
Let them come back to class and draw shapes they have observed.
Geometric shapes
There are five basic geometric shapes; -
• Circle
• Rectangle
• Triangle
• Square
• Oval
Show the learners this shapes and let them draw and name the shapes
Modelling Shapes
We can model shapes using clay or plasticine.
Guide learners to bring clay soil.
Individually let learners model the shapes they know.
Learners to display their work after omodelling for other learners to view and talk about it.
Learners to clean their working area.
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