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Math Thematic Reading
List - Teaching Shapes and Geometry to Kids
Halloween Book descriptions and reviews for
preschool and elementary reading. Titles include: All Hallow's Eve - The Story of the Halloween Fairy; Big
Pumpkin; Bugs That Go Bump in the Night; Dragon's Halloween; Five Little Pumpkins;
Go Away Big Green Monster; Halloween Bugs a Trick-or-Treat Popup; Halloween Puzzles; Halloween Sky Ride, Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve; Haunted House; I Spy Spooky Night; In the Haunted House; Inside a House That is Haunted; It's Halloween!; Miss Fiona's Stupendous Pumpkin Pies; Mrs. McMurphy's Pumpkin; Peek-a-Boooo!; Pigs Go to Market - Halloween Fun with Math and Shopping; Pumpkin Eye; Pumpkin Hill; Room on a Broom;
Scary, Scary Halloween; Shake Dem Halloween Bones; Skeleton Hiccups; Tell Me a Scary Story; Ten Timid Ghosts; The Bumpy Little Pumpkin; The Legend of Spookley, the Square Pumpkin; The Little Old Lady Who Was Not
Afraid of Anything; The Night Before Halloween; The Ugly Pumpkin; Thirteen Nights of Halloween; Too Many
Pumpkins; Trick or Treat Countdown and Trick or Treat - Smell My Feet.
Halloween
Riddles
Figure out these silly Halloween Riddles.
You get 3 clues with each one. Some riddles are puns, others
involve compound words and some use homophones. Fun way
to build on literacy skills! Get the riddles right and
you should be able to complete the interactive
creepy crossword puzzle!
Math Games That Teach Geometry or Spatial Learning
Chinese Tangrams
Create your own tangrams using drag and drop shapes - just like
Grandfather Tang's story. You may view a gallery of samples or
just create on your own!
Math Puzzle - Shapes and Spatial Learning
Drag the shape puzzle pieces to complete the square. It's not as easy
as you think! The game is different each time it's played.
Dots and Squares Interactive Shape Game
Click on the grid to draw one side of a square. Play against the computer. The object of the game is to be the player to complete the most squares.
Recommended geometry (shape) skills to be mastered in kindergarten
Identify left and right hand, top, bottom and middle.
Know and use terms of relative position
Identify and sort basic shapes - square, rectangle, triangle and circle
Recognize basic shapes in the environment
Recognize basic shapes as the same or different
Compare sizes of figures - determine larger or smaller
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