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| Circle, Square, Moose |
This week we read Circle, Square, Moose by Paul O. Zelinsky and Kelly Bingham. This book teaching children shapes keeps getting interrupted by a silly moose and then the zebra jumps in to try to chase down the moose. The results is a book that your kids will love.
This book inspired me to focus more on shapes this week with the Dancing Girl and Messy Boy. Dancing Girl has known her shapes for what seems like forever, and Messy Boy has just recently started identifying shapes so the activities can be modified for different ages.
Here are some fun ideas for exploring shapes:
-Cut out shapes from foam sheets and let your kids build pictures with them (We play with ours in the bath tub and they love them!)
-Build with blocks together and name the shapes while you build (One of Messy Boy's favorite activities)
-Cut out pictures of squares, circles, rectangles, and triangles from magazines
-Do some pattern building with my Shape Pattenrs.
-Make shapes from Play-Doh
-Shape Doodles for a little artistic fun (This was a big hit with Dancing Girl!)
-Let your kids draw shapes in the sand, shaving cream, pudding, etc.
What kind of activities do you do with your kids to help them learn about shapes? Did you try any of the activities I listed? How did it go?
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