 Hi, today I'm going to talk about one way that I teach shapes to my students. So the four shapes we're going to use today are rectangles, square, circle, and triangle. So after I've introduced the shapes and we've talked about them, recognizing how many sides they have, if they're long or short, if they have curved lines or straight lines, we're going to practice building shapes. So what I do is I will get some popsicle sticks or pieces of paper, whatever you have available, and I cut them into strips and we're going to practice putting those shapes together. So if I would say, okay boys and girls, today we're going to build a rectangle. I would show them the rectangle and I'll say remember we're looking for two long sides and two short sides. And then I would give them the materials to build the rectangles. So some of your really, really young kids might need a model, so I would have the model available and I would say, alright, let's first lay down our big line and then next to it I'm going to put a little line. Make sure they're touching so the shape's connecting. I'm going to need my big line and then to close my shape I'm going to add my little line. Boys and girls, what shape did you build? You built a rectangle. And so what you could do is go through and model building each one and then give the kids their shapes. Again, they don't have to be color matched, you just give them some popsicle sticks and have them go and then you could say, let's build a triangle. So the higher level skill kids don't give them a model, just say, everybody let's build a triangle and so give them the three lines, have them build a triangle, raise their hand when they're done so you can check and see for understanding, alright. Last one, you can build a square, say alright boys and girls, let's build a square, they're going to line up their pieces, raise their hands to let you know they've built a square. Making a circle is a little bit different because there's not straight lines, there's curves. So what I do with my kids to teach them, I'd say we've got two curves, we put it together, close it to make a circle and so I would just have them line them up to make a circle. And that's one way I teach shapes to my students, thanks.