A teacher shows how to help young learners match shapes to colors by drawing circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, and ovals, then asking kids to color each one a specific color. The activity works with limited supplies and rewards every correct response.
and draw all kinds of shapes on here. See if I can draw them upside down. Just draw them all over the place. Okay, so something just like that. And then just ask your student, your child, say, "Okay, color the circles red." And you would just, you know, give them— give them the red is fine and have them color the circles. It's okay sometimes if your friends circle them. Sometimes we— they have to circle things in school, so if they do that, that's okay. Just say, "Yeah, that's the circle," and just show them how to color it in. Always positive reinforcements. And then say, "Color the circle." uh, orange— the squares orange, and have them color in the squares orange. Have them color the triangles yellow and the rectangles green. I don't have a green with me, and I kind of did it backwards, but— and then the ovals. Oh, terrible ovals. Ovals they can color blue. That's my last color I have left. So however you want to work that out with
