D •

TE E E
SI AD L
EB LO B
W N IA
M W P
O DO O
FR BE C
N TO

This page has been downloaded from www.onestopclil.com. Written by Marcelino Palacios Álvarez and Paco Santos Juanes © Copyright Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2006.
CA O
H
•P
TEACHER’S NOTES
• Name a shape and ask the children to form
A SHAPE EXHIBITION that shape on the desk by combining coloured
pencils or crayons.
Art and crafts
• Ask for a volunteer and ‘draw’ the shapes on
his/her back. The child has to guess the
Aim shape. Repeat with other children.
• To introduce or review shapes.
Materials Making the cut-out
• Coloured pencils.
• Hand out the worksheet. Ask the children to
• Scissors.
identify the shapes: What number is the star?
• Glue.
etc; What shape is number four? etc.
• Worksheet.
• Ask the children to colour the shapes
• Blank sheets of A4 paper.
following your instructions, eg, The star is red.
Duration
• The children cut out the shapes one by one,
30 minutes. following your instructions, eg, Cut out the
Language focus rectangle.
• Shapes: triangle, rectangle, circle, square, • Next, the children cut along the dashed line
star, heart, oval, diamond. just below each shape.
Cross-curricular content • The children fold the flaps under each shape
• Art and crafts. in opposite directions.
• Following instructions to assemble the • Now hand out an extra sheet of paper to each
cut-out. child. The children fold their sheet of paper in
half three times to make eight equal sections.
Preparation • Then ask the children to cut out the labels and
fold the shaded area backwards.
• Introduce or review the shapes by drawing
• Finally the children glue one of the shapes to
them on the board.
each section of their sheet of paper. Then they
• Point to each shape, say its name and get the
match the labels to the shapes and glue them
children to repeat.
in front of the shapes (applying glue to the
• Children give the names of real objects
shaded area of the labels):
related to each shape (objects they can see in
the classroom, for example): board–rectangle,
clock–circle, etc.
• Next, draw shapes in the air and say their
names aloud. Get the children to do the same
in pairs.
D •
TE E E
SI AD L
EB LO B
W N IA
M W P

This page has been downloaded from www.onestopclil.com © Copyright Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2006.
O DO O
FR BE C
N TO
CA O
H
•P