Video: How to Teach Kids Color & Shapes

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Teach kids basic shapes like the square, circle and rectangle and basic colors, like red, orange, yellow and blue and more kindergarten teaching tips in this free kindergarten education video clip.

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hil.kusiappiah Jun 26, 2011
a great way to begin with kids of early stages, thank for this site and God bless u.

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The first thing that you want to teach when you begin with your child, assuming they know nothing about math up until this point and you can start this as early practically as they can talk or walk is to teach shape identification and color identification. Now start with very basic shapes, don't worry about prisms or parallelograms, or whatever. The ones that I think that are most important to start with are the square, the rectangle, the circle, the oval, the triangle and the diamond. You can set them up on one piece of paper like this, no big deal. Don't add any color to them yet because you want to isolate the difference between shape and color. And that's basically it. We're not learning how to read these of course, we're just learning how to say them. Look around your house and have your child show you different squares and rectangles and circles that they see using everyday items. There's our shapes. Here are our colors. The basic colors I like to start with. The 11 basic colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, white, and grey. Those are the most basic colors that you find all throughout everyday life. Again, go through your house and have your child show you examples of these different colors.

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