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  1. What is a triangle? Show the class the triangle shape and encourage students to describe it. How many sides does it have? Count together. How many corners? Students hold up 3 fingers. How many sides does a square have? Students hold up 4 fingers. How many sides does a circle have? Students hold their fists in the air.
  2. How many corners? A coordination game where the teacher calls out "How many corners does a ________have? (Circle, Square or Triangle) The students quickly hold up the correct number of fingers.
  3. Draw a triangle on the floor with your invisible pencil. Draw a triangle on the floor with your toe. Draw a triangle in the air with your nose. Draw an enormous triangle in the air with your right hand. Draw a tiny triangle in the air with your left hand.
  4. '1, 2, 3' - Action rhyme Teach the students 3 body shapes to represent the numbers 1, 2 and 3. Suggestions: (these can be made more complex - change levels etc) 1 = Standing in a very tall and stiff shape, with arms by their sides 2 = Standing with feet apart and arms out above the head 3 = Standing with feet together, and arms out and bent at elbowsMake each shape and rehearse backwards (3, 2, 1) and in mixed order Turn it into an action rhyme -"1, 2, 3, Look at me! I can be a TRIANGLE 1, 2, 3!" For the words "look at me", the students could turn around and point to themselves. For "I can be a triangle", they could make a big triangle in the air with their noses!
  5. Mark a large triangle out on the floor with 3 cones and name them 1, 2 and 3. (Perhaps numbers could be stuck on the cones) Follow the Leader The teacher leads the class around the markings, travelling in different ways. Count each corner as it is reached. Call out a number 1, 2 or 3 as they go past each one. Repeat but now the students stop briefly at each corner and make the action rhyme shapes for 1, 2 and 3 with their bodies.
  6. Large length of elastic. Vocabulary Cards - Levels Select 3 students to be helpers and they demonstrate how to make a big triangle with the elastic. They keep holding it and the remainder of the class crawls under the triangle and sits down. Following instructions from the teacher, the helpers raise and lower the elastic, changing the level of the triangle. The class has to change their level to match the height of the elastic. For example, the helpers hold the triangle on the ground and the class has to make a shape as low to the ground as they can. Repeat several times. They may be able to begin to make interesting low, medium and high shapes as the elastic changes. Swap helpers so that everyone has a turn. Encourage students to look at someone making an interesting shape and copy them. Extend this to make triangle shapes on low, medium and high levels.

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