die cut outs similar to Go Away, Big Green Monster!, we use shape after shape to build an animal, Two quick caveats:brachiosaurus had blunt teeth, not sharp teeth, andA couple of the shapes are really obscure crescent anyone and will be harder for the toddlers to guess.
Still, I'll use it in story time because the very simple text is easy for littles and who doesn't love dinosaurs Simple book showing how shapes build to make something interesting like a dinosaur!
Dinosaur
Shapes Should work for storytime! Short and sweet.
Good for wobblers. Talking about shapes and making shapes with fingers, perfect high quality book for preschool like go away big green monster
great book
not durable to leave out for little hands without guidance Although very short, and it should be a board book due to simplistic content, Shape by Shape by MacDonald demonstrates the concept of shapes and how they can be combined to create something big in this case, a dinosaur.
It utilizes shapes sometimes not included in other shape concept books such as: semicircle and oval, A good book for not only learning basic shapes but understanding how bigger things can be broken down into basic geometric shapes, Very cute book, BUT a Brachiosaurus does not have sharp teeth, "A dinosaur was big! And a little bit small, A dinosaur was doing shapes, " Isaac, ageThese shapebuilding books are a lot of fun, and this one gives nice examples to what the shape will be used for so kids can guess what the shape needs to be.
The leadup and reveal is nice, Only problem is that Brachiosaurus had blunt teeth, Love how different shapes made up into a final picture in the end! Y
sitelink youtube. com/watchvGuXZv I used this one in toddler storytime today, to talk about the early literacy skill of vocabulary, and it went over great I used it with a rhyme about circles, which went over big.
And the fact that the punchline of the book is a dinosaur Well, Solid gold! Concept shapes This book offers a unique insight on how to learn, It offerees the reader a variety of different shapes, simple and complex, It then makes the shapes into a whole picture so the audience can see ho often shapes make up everyday creatures and objects that we see everyday.
A fantastic, highly engaging book that introduces young children to shapes, Very clever and lots of fun, This was a hit with kindergarten and first grade, One smart cookie specifically guessed it was a brachiosaurus before the reveal, I'd recommend for a shape math unit or shape themed storytime, I like how it introduces crescent and semicircle, two shapes not commonly discussed,
Great for: Prek
Teaches: shapes,This fun colorful book slowly makes a dinosaur as you turn the pages, The simplicity of each page keeps the focus on the shape on each page, This is a great way to learn about shapes, In the style of "Go away, big green monster!" with shape cutouts that make a larger picture, In this case, it's a Brachiosaurus! This is a good book to talk about with shapes, though some of the shapes are a little trickier "semicircles" for the eyes and whatnot.
But this is a short book so it wouldn't be too difficult, Very clever use of cut out shapes and color to create a picture of a dinosaur, She LOVED this one What am I
I lived a long, long time ago,
I had round eyes
lots of sharp teeth
This new concept book from Caldecott Honor illustrator Suse MacDonald is sure to entertain children.
As readers turn the brightly colored, die cut pages, shapes on each page come together to reveal a creature from long ago, Page by page, MacDonalds bright, cutpaper, collagestyle artwork transforms circles into eyes and triangles into scales until a familiar creature is revealed, with the aid of a large foldout page, on the final spread.
ThisXjacketed hardcover has diecut cardstock pages, .
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