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2nd Grade - Ms. Kathleen Cronin and Mrs. Gladys Beaven

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Tanagrams

OVERVIEW

Students will create their own animal using tangrams to gain an understanding of shapes and special awareness

Objectives: For Kindergarten students to learn about shapes through the use of tangrams.

Content Standards:

2.0 Students identify common objects in their environment and describe the geometric features:

• 2.1 Identify and describe common geometric objects (e.g., circle, triangle, square, rectangle, cube, sphere, cone).
• 2.2 Compare familiar plane and solid objects by common attributes (e.g., position, shape, size, roundness, number of corners).
  
  Teacher supplied materials:
• Tangram shape handout
• Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert; read aloud for task one

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