Wednesday April 15, 2020

Good morning families!

Today we are going to be working on math as well as language.

For today’s activity, we are going to go on a Shape Hunt through your house. You will need to give your child a list of shapes to look for. You can make your own list by simply writing or drawing the shapes on a piece of paper, or you can print out this picture list:

If your child is already confidently finding and recognizing ALL of the above shapes, we are going to make the shape hunt more challenging by making it a 3D Shape Hunt! For the 3D Shape Hunt, you can use this picture list instead:

In preschool, it is common for children to confuse square and rectangle. Make sure to emphasize to your child the difference being a square has four sides that are all THE SAME size. A rectangle also has four sides, but only two sides are short while the other two sides are long.

The other common mix up is between rectangle and triangle. This is because both shape names have the word “angle” in it. Your child is remember the term, but still needs more practice in recognizing the difference between two shapes.

Also, don’t be surprised if you hear your child use the term “rhombus” in place of diamond. We began regularly using the word rhombus in the classroom shortly before the school closure happened. The kids were VERY excited to be able to use a big, grown up sounding word.

As always, please send me pictures of the shapes / 3D shapes your child finds on their shape hunt today. I cannot wait to see everyone’s smiling faces!

If you have not already done so, please take a few minutes to complete the preschool parent survey at this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Qgm7j96CEMUFPDYRXIls9k0WcVOh2Ts4cdAp9A2JiMA/edit?ts=5e95c86f

Thank you to everyone who has already completed the survey! Six families done…. ten families to go!