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What do young children learn when they Explore Shapes?

• They recognize, name, build, draw, compare, and sort shapes.
• They describe attributes and parts of shapes.
• They combine shapes to make new shapes.
• They recognize and represent shapes from different perspectives.
• They recognize, name and describe geometric shapes found in the environment.

The goal of this What’s the BIG Idea? kit:

To provide a general, basic understanding exploring shapes while reading books, making observations and doing hands-on investigations.

$64.00

Exploring shapes stimulates children's interest in the skills and concepts that are essential to understanding both science and mathematics. As children explore shapes they are practicing important math and science skills.

Understanding shapes is more complex than just knowing the names of common geometric shapes such as circle, square and triangle. Knowing shapes is also about:

Solving puzzles: Finding the right shape for the right space.

Creating designs: Putting shapes together to make new forms.

Recognizing shapes and spaces: Locating all of the circles in the supermarket or observing that this room is larger than that one.

Folding paper: Creating different shapes and sizes out of a single item.

Describing shapes: Identifying a shape’s attributes such as number of sides, corners or faces.

Reading picture books and doing hands-on activities strengthen children’s math concepts and skills as you ask open-ended questions, encourage children to explain what they’re doing and provide many experiences with recognizing geometric shapes and spaces and creating new forms when putting shapes together.

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