It's Not Too Soon to Inspire Geometric Thinking
As children manipulate shapes in daily play and become increasingly aware of spatial relationships throughout their day, preschoolers are actively developing early concepts of geometry. At the preschool level, children learn to recognize geometric shapes by viewing and identifying them as a whole object. Providing children with opportunities to explore and experiment with shapes and their properties allows them to move to the next stage of geometric thinking: understanding the individual characteristics of each shape (for example, a triangle has three sides).In the Pre-K One class today, they explored geometric concepts by using shapes to fill in spaces to complete the picture. They used squares, rectangles, and triangles to complete each picture.
