Shapes, Shapes, Shapes!

 Books recommended or used:

Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert

Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd

It Looked like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw

Not a Box by Antionette Portis

Peek in My Pocket by David Carter

Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman

We found shapes in the storytime pockets.  They made a snowman!

 



 

 

Here's a great shape song to sing!

Song:  Make a Circle, Draw a Square

(Tune:  Oh, My Darling Clementine)

Make a circle, Make a circle, draw it in the sky

Use your finger, use your finger, make it round as a pie

Make a square, make a square, make the lines straight

Draw a square, draw a square, draw one or draw eight

Draw a triangle, draw a triangle, always start at the top

Make a tent, make a tent, use three lines and then stop!

 

 



Houses Flannel Story

Some house are wood and some are stone.

But let’s build one with shapes alone.

Start with a square, but we won’t stop!

Add a triangle up on top.

Then a rectangle for the door.

Now square windows 1, 2, 3, 4!

A little circle just for fun.

Now our shape house is all done!

 

Here's a fun flannel board game:  "Stump the Kids"...

Start by placing the boat on the flannel board in the upper left corner and say, "A sailboat has triangle shapes."  Then add a christmas tree and say, "A christmas tree can be triangle shaped."  Then add a piece of pizza and say, "Pissa can be triangle shaped."  Then add the bubble and say, "A bubble is triangle shaped."  When all of the children protest, you say, "Oh, Okay!  We'd better make another shape line because a bubble is circle shaped."  Continue on to the end.  They love it!

 

 

 

 

Then it's time for a puppet:  Tommy Turtle comes out of the bag and he's brought a lot of shapes with him today.  He gives one to each child.  Then we sing the shape song and each child brings up their shape as it is sung.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Shape Song

Who has a shape today?

Who has a shape today?

Who has a red triangle?

Who has a shape today?

Sing through with each of the shapes you have passed out to the children.

Then as I gather the shapes up off of the flannel board, I sing:

Song:  Where is Triangle

(Tune:  Where is Thumbkin?)

Where is triangle?  Where is triangle?

Here I am!  Here I am!

How are you today sir?  Very well I thank you!

Run away!  Run away!

(Circle, rectangle, square, diamond)