How do live lessons work?
Live lessons are interactive slides and course outlines that are used to teach Treeway Live Classes. Click on the arrows to navigate backward and forwards through the slides.
How Do I Use the Lesson Plans?
Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.
This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.
Can I show videos in live classes?
Yes, feel free to include additional material to supplement the class lesson material. Videos, Physical Objects, Games, Activities, etc. are okay to share in live classes.
Videos should have no advertisements or logos and should be viewed by you before showing them to the students to ensure no offensive or questionable content is included.
The video should make up only a small portion of the live class.
How do bookmarks work?
Bookmarks help you keep track of lessons you’re going to teach in future live classes. The bookmarks you see are for all your bookmarked lessons across all grades.
You can bookmark a lesson by visiting the lesson you want to bookmark and clicking the “bookmark” button in the bookmark section.
You can remove a single bookmark by visiting a lesson you’ve bookmarked and clicking the “bookmark” button again to unbookmark it.
You can clear all of your bookmarks by clicking the “clear all bookmarks” button. Be careful, this will erase all of your bookmarks.
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Class Summary
Reinforcing the math lesson that teaches students to sort objects based on 1 or more attributes like color, size, length, weight, etc. Students should leave the class feeling comfortable with the concept of the differences between objects with shapes prompting them to compare and organize. Students will also learn to create complex designs from basic shapes and identify 2d shapes individually and by name.
Lesson Slide
Main Teaching Points
- Show: A circle.
- Explain: A circle is a curvy shape with no sides or corners.
- Show: A triangle.
- Explain: A triangle is a straight line shape with 3 sides.
- Explain: Sorting is putting lots of things that look the same together. Sorting keeps things in order.
- Practice Sorting: Use the Pattern Blocks teaching app to help the students practice sorting different shapes based on color and shape type.
- Show and Tell: Call on students to show their circle or triangle shaped object and tell the class about it.
Discussion Questions
Questions to Ask About Shapes and Objects
- Which one is longer?
- Which one is shorter?
- What is a side?
- What is a corner?
- What shape has no sides or corners?
- How many sides does this shape have? How many corners?
- How is this shape different or the same from that shape?
Questions to Ask About Sorting:
- How many of these buttons are blue? brown? striped? golden?
- What color are the squares? Circles?
- How many triangles are blue? pink? green? red?
In-Class Activities
- Bring A Shape: Tell parents in the description to help students prepare for the class by bringing something shaped like a circle or triangle. Call on students to show their circle or triangle shaped object and tell the class about it.
- Show a Shape: Bring in 2D shapes to show the class. Print and cut out relevant shapes. You can access a printable for that by clicking here.