It’s a rectangle, it’s a rectangle, it’s a rectangle, The triangle is a simple shape (form triangle with fingers)īut all four sides are not the same, EIEIO! The circle is a shape (form circle with fingers) Tiptoe slowly on the circle and go round. Related: 15 Hands On Activities for Learning About 2D and 3D ShapesĬircle left, circle right, (side step to the left and then side step to the right) Here’s a shape that you will know (form square with fingers) Hold your square shape and jump, jump, jump, This is a rectangle, this is a rectangle, (children holding triangles hold them in the air) If you’re holding a square, if you’re holding a square (sung to If You’re Happy and You Know It)īefore singing, give each child a 2D pattern block to hold. I’m holding in my hand? (hold up a different shape each time you sing) RELATED: See our complete collection of fun, themed children’s rhymes, songs and finger plays. Getting children to move as they learn is fabulous engaging the visual, auditory and physical systems of the body with a learning concepts – which makes finger plays and action songs about concepts, such as the list below about 2D shapes, a valuable learning tool.Īnd this form of learning has been used for centuries, as mothers and grandmothers have sung songs and rhymes to teach early skills and concepts like counting and naming colours, even in the years before preschool and kindergarten existed. In fact, even now I am known to break into song at a moments notice when something we are doing triggers a memory of a finger play they loved when they were little.įinger plays and action songs are songs, chants or rhymes that use hand and body movements to accompany the words being spoken or sung. I have always loved singing finger plays and action songs with young children – in both my classroom and at home with my own daughters.
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