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Freeze Dance

From Jack Hartmann Kids

Freeze Dance
3 minK1stMathBrain Breaks
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Summary

“Freeze Dance” is a Jack Hartmann song-and-movement video that teaches shapes and the sides and corners that name them while getting the whole class up and moving.

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All ages
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Teaching resources

Discussion questions

Discussion

We name shapes by their features — the number of sides and corners they have.

  1. What shapes are in this song, and how many sides does each have?
  2. How can you tell two similar shapes apart?
  3. Can you find one of these shapes in the room?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: shape, side, corner, square, triangle, circle.

Try it: Draw three shapes from the song and label the number of sides and corners on each.