Rectangles

Age
6-9.

Materials

 * Reading labels: five "rectangle" and one "rectangle/square"

Presentation

 * 1) Isolate the first inset.
 * 2) Identify it and give etymology: rectangle: Latin rectus- right, and angulus - an angle; thus having all right angles.
 * 3) Invite the child to identify the other rectangles as they are isolated.
 * 4) Isolate the last inset.
 * 5) This is also a rectangles because it has all right angles, but it is also a square.
 * 6) Do a three period lesson and give the child the reading labels.