The geometric shapes found in the Geometry Cabinet are essential to the sensorial curriculum in a Montessori classroom. These materials enable children to explore and understand two-dimensional shapes through tangible, physical objects that they can handle and manipulate. The accompanying worksheets provide children with the opportunity to practice drawing the shapes they have worked with physically and to label them appropriately. The shapes included: circle, curvilinear triangle, oval, ellipse, quatrefoil, square, rectangle, trapezoid (trapezium), rhombus, parallelogram, kite, chevron, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, equilateral, acute angled isosceles, right angled isosceles, obtuse angled isosceles, acute angled scalene, right angled scalene, and obtuse angled scalene. Includes the following sheets: draw the shapes label the shapes draw and label the shapes Sheets are 8½"x11". This file is in PDF format.
