Nursery Snowflake Shape Sort: Snow Globe Shapes

Snowflake Shape Sort: sort shapes into the snow globes. A sorting mat with four snow globes – circle, triangle, square and rectangle – each with three card spaces, plus one sorting sheet per shape. Twelve snowy shape cards in different sizes and turns fit the spaces exactly. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Sorting mat with four shape snow globes. • 4 one-shape sorting sheets, one per A4. • 12 cut-out shape cards that fit the spaces. Ideas for using it: • Sort them: Put each shape in the snow globe with the same shape. • Turn it: A triangle upside down is still a triangle. Check! • Feel it: Trace the sides and count the corners. • Shape hunt: Find shapes around the room. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes (for example, circles, rectangles, triangles and cuboids) using informal and mathematical language: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Make comparisons between objects relating to size, length, weight and capacity. • Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.