Understanding colors, shapes, and spatial sense helps children communicate better, describe things more effectively, and problem-solve. They learn to think about attributes of objects and make observations about similarities and differences, which leads to the ability to sort and classify items based on easy-to-recognize characteristics. Letters and numbers are just complicated shapes children eventually learn to recognize and name. Why not have fun doing it?

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Moves in Order:

Shake, twist from side to side, lift one foot and balance, turn around, swing your arms up and over, bend over and sweep, curl into a ball, march, jump (shout “Hooray), walk straight ahead, run, tap the book, clap to start over.

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Open-ended inquiry to promote critical thinking:

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• "What do you notice on this page?"

• “Describe what you see.”

• "What do you know about shapes/colors?

• "How can you tell how many shapes/colors there are?"

• “What happened to the shapes after you moved?”

• “How did the shapes change?”

• "Why do you think the shapes look like they do now?"

• "What does this remind you of?

• Tell me about the shapes on the top, bottom, in the middle, on the left, on the right, on this side, underneath, in between, etc."

• "Is the face happy, sad, mad...? How can you tell?"

• "How would you show me this shape using your body/a string/a shoelace?"

• "How can you move like that?”

• "Tell me about the pattern the shapes made."
   

• --  Cutouts in the back of the book. --

• "Show me what you can do with your shape/s."

• "How can you make your shape bigger, smaller, wider, thinner, round, or square?"

• "What if you wanted to make a different shape?"

• "What will happen if you add more shapes?"

• "How can you make a pattern?"

• "What if you asked a friend to help?"