Shapes & Mindfulness

Lesson Plan: Shapes & Mindfulness

Age Group: 3-5 years 
Duration: 45 minutes  

Objective: Enhance their mathematical skills through hands-on, movement-based activities that integrate shape recognition, counting, sorting, and spatial awareness. 

Te Whāriki learning outcomes fulfilled:

1) Using gestures and movement to express themselves. 

2) Moving confidently and challenging themselves.

3) Keeping themselves healthy and caring for themselves.

The New Zealand Curriculum:

1) Identify, describe, and sort familiar 2D and 3D shapes presented in different orientations, including triangles, circles, rectangles (including squares), cubes, cylinders, and spheres.

2) Use pictures, diagrams, or stories to describe the positions of objects and places.

3) Compare the length, mass (weight), volume, or capacity of objects directly or indirectly (e.g., by comparing each of them with another object, used repeatedly).