What You Need: Shape It Up · Shape It Up OBJECTIVE: Recognizing shape names and ATTRIBUTES...
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Shape It Up OBJECTIVE: Recognizing shape names and ATTRIBUTES (something that tells us about the shape, such as: size, color, number of angles, or number of sides). Your child will practice making larger shapes out of smaller shapes. What You Need: • Allow your child time to freely explore the materials provided for this game. • As your child plays with the blocks ask them to describe what they create. • Using other blocks, make a shape just like the blue rhombus. You can stack the blocks on top of one another to help you build. • Using other blocks, make a shape just like the red trapezoid. • Using other blocks, make a shape just like the yellow hexagon. • See how many different ways you can make a shape. Remember, there is no one right way! • Make a design using 5 or more pattern blocks and ask your child to copy it with their own blocks. • Trace around a design with 4 blocks and then ask your child to cover it with 4 blocks that fit. WARNING: Small parts are a choking hazard for children under 3 years. XPLORE LAY LAY SK: “How did you make the shape?” “Is there another way that you could make the shape? How else could you make it?” SK: “Tell me about the design you created with the blocks.” SK: “What’s similar (the same) and what’s different about the hexagons you built?” “Tell me about the new shape that you made.” SK: “What do you notice about the design I made?” “How do you know which blocks to use to recreate the design?” UILD 1 2 3 4 ©
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Shape It UpOBJECTIVE: Recognizing shape names and ATTRIBUTES (something that tells us about the shape, such as: size, color, number of angles, or number of sides). Your child will practice making larger shapes out of smaller shapes.
What You Need:
• Allow your child time to freely explore the materials provided for this game.
• As your child plays with the blocks ask them to describe what they create.
• Using other blocks, make a shape just like the blue rhombus. You can stack the blocks on top of one another to help you build.
• Using other blocks, make a shape just like the red trapezoid.
• Using other blocks, make a shape just like the yellow hexagon.
• See how many different ways you can make a shape. Remember, there is no one right way!
• Make a design using 5 or more pattern blocks and ask your child to copy it with their own blocks.
• Trace around a design with 4 blocks and then ask your child to cover it with 4 blocks that fit.
WARNING: Small parts are a choking hazard for children under 3 years.
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SK:“How did you make the shape?” “Is there another way that you could make the shape? How else could you make it?”SK:
“Tell me about the design you created with the blocks.”
SK:“What’s similar (the same) and what’s different about the hexagons you built?”
“Tell me about the new shape that you made.” SK:“What do you notice about the design I made?” “How do you know which blocks to use to recreate the design?”
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• Make a hidden design.
• Keep your design hidden while you describe to your child how to build it.
• See if your child is able to recreate your hidden design.
• Let your child make a hidden design.
• Have your child keep their design hidden while they describe to you how to build it.
• See if you are able to recreate your child’s hidden design.
• Look inside and outside for objects that have the same shapes as the pattern blocks.
• Discuss the similarities or differences between the objects you found and the pattern blocks.
• Talk about different ATTRIBUTES of people (eye color, hair color, skin tone, height, etc.). What ATTRIBUTES do you and your child have in common?
• Look for people or things with similar or different ATTRIBUTES.
WARNING: Small parts are a choking hazard for children under 3 years.
SK: “What’s similar or different about our designs?”“What are some ATTRIBUTES of our designs?”SK:
“What’s similar or different about our designs? Why do you think they look different?”
SK:“Can you find anything that looks like the square pattern block? What makes the object look similar to the pat-tern block?”
SK: “What ATTRIBUTES do we share? What ATTRIBUTES are different?”
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