![]() So Many Circles, So Many Squares by Tana Hoban is a picture book that is all about shapes in our environment. If you are a teacher, especially elementary-aged, and aren’t familiar with her you should be. However, I am a huge fan of not only this book but her methods in general. The author is a bit of a superstar in the teaching world. Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns is a funny story about a triangle that keeps adding more and more sides until he is confused, but your preschooler will be learning all about shapes while fun. I try to find negatives with books that are sent to me from publishers for review, but I am having a hard time this really is a good shape book! Younger toddlers will still enjoy it and it’s vibrant colors but to do it independently this is a perfect age. My son loves playing “Detective” and what I like is that the challenge is just right for his age group 2-3-year-olds. But really they are photographs of clay sculptures that range in theme from a spider web to dinosaurs to princess crowns and more. The shapes are hidden in the adorable clay “illustrations”. This book is an activity book that has a simple rhyme and request for the reader to find 2 shapes on every page. It’s already come in handy on a ferry and waiting to be seated at a restaurant keeping my son happy and busy searching for shapes. So if you are reading this with an older child there is still some challenge.Ĭlay Quest Minis: Search for Shapes! by Helen Bogosian is a big hit with my son and me! I was lucky enough to receive this book from the publisher. The fabric collages are so detailed and layered that the obvious shapes are easy to find. However, what I like is that these illustrations are challenging, and not really illustrations at all. While the text is simple, it serves to support the reader’s efforts finding shapes throughout the book. Ship Shapes by Stella Blackstone and Siobhan Bell is a bright, colorful and engaging book all about finding shapes. Kids are little sponges and love learning new things. Today’s list of books are books about shapes. A popular geometry read aloud that we’ve used across a range of 2nd - 4th grade classrooms in conjunction with this follow up activity. The illustrations of the shapes in different forms, places, and orientations provide further information about the properties of shapes and how they are used. quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon) and when reading the story aloud we often ask children to predict what the next shape will be. This book provides an opportunity to introduce, or review, the names of different polygons (e.g. When its many sides and angles are so small that it becomes difficult to balance, the shape returns to the shapeshifter and asks to be become a triangle again. Transformed into a quadrilateral the triangle is happy for a while, but again and again returns to the shapeshifter asking for just one more side and one more angle. The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns (Author) and Gordon Silveria (Illustrator)Ī busy triangle becomes dissatisfied with its life and asks a shapeshifter for one more side and one more angle. ![]() After reading have students create their own works of art and "I spy" riddles based on a shape of their choosing. ![]() ![]() A lovely book for introducing fine art to young children while concurrently developing skills in recognizing and correctly naming shapes regardless of their orientations or size (CCSS K.G.A.2). When reading this book aloud we like to use the added phrase on the last page, "What do you spy?", throughout the book to encourage children to examine each painting closely. The colorful, clean design coupled with a large font and simple text (“I spy with my little eye a rectangle.”) makes this a book that early readers can enjoy independently after a whole class introduction. Each of the fourteen painting contains a different shape to find, some of which are easy to spot and others which are more challenging. Based on the "I spy with my little eye" game Micklethwait encourages young readers to find shapes in famous paintings from a range of nineteenth and twentieth century artists, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Henri Matisse, M. ![]()
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