BY MONASH PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

Exploring Shapes 
and Objects
A helpful tipsheet that can help your child!

CONSOLIDATING THEIR KNOWLEDGE

Shapes and Objects are everywhere is the outside world, therefore we should consolidate our
child's knowledge in order for them to take on the world. This tip sheet aims to give you tips and
tricks to help build your child's shapes and objects knowledge outside of school.
Please do remember that each child develops and learn at different rates and should not be
compared.

YOU CAN HELP THE GROWTH OF YOUR CHILD'S

LEARNING BY:

ENCOURAGE USING
MATHEMATICAL
LANGUAGE
By making the child use the appropriate language
when describing certain shapes and objects, it helps
build connections and understandings from the
object to the language/word. It also further
consolidates the meaning behind the language.
eg. 'What shape is that bin? How do you know?

CREATIVE OUTLETS
By allowing the children to have a more hands on
approach can help those which learn through
touch and physical activities. It also incorporates
some 21st century skills such as creativity.
Such activities include:
- Playdough
-Origami
-Making paper planes and completing them
-Baking cookies and using shaped cookie cutters

USE TECHNOLOGY TO YOUR

ADVANTAGE
The children growing up today will be using an
abundant amount of technology in the future.
Therefore we should both develop their technological
skills and their mathematical understandings of
shapes and objects.
This can be done through:
-Games (https://www.education.com/games/3d-
shapes/)
-Youtube videos on shapes and objects
- Make videos at home about the shapes and their
properties
- Use "Paint" to allow them to draw shapes and

APPLY TO EVERYDAY patterns and then ask the children to describe the
properties.
LIFE
Although the child may have learnt the
information about various shapes and objects, in
order to consolidate their knowledge, we must
apply it to the real world.
This can be done through::
- Going on walks and finding various shaped
objects and describing them
- Sorting out groceries into groups through their
shapes
- Going around the house to see which shapes
they can find

LEARN MORE TIPS AND EXTRA ACTIVITIES !

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