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Related Activities to Try at Home

Drawing Shapes Drawing shapes is also fun. In class we have been making a class book of shapes and a shape mural. Your child might like to design his or her own shape book, picture, or mural using many different shapes that he or she has drawn or cut from old magazines.

Seeing Shapes Inside Shapes Encourage your child to look for patterns or designs made from different shapes. For example, ask: “Can you find squares on the floor (or wallpaper or clothing)?” or “Are there any patterns made from triangles?” or “Do you see any hexagons?”

Math and Literature Here are some suggestions of children's books that contain relevant ideas about geometry. Read them together and talk about the shapes you find.

Blackstone, Stella. Ship Shapes.

Burns, Marilyn. The Greedy Triangle.

Dodds, Dayle Ann. The Shape of Things.

MacDonald, Suse. Shape by Shape.

Onyefulu, Ifeoma. A Triangle for Adaora: An African Book of Shapes.

Schachner, Judy. Skippyjon Jones Shape Up.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum Shapes.

Thong, Roseanne. Round is a Mooncake.

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