Introduction

The purpose of this blog is to give the parents ideas and exercises to do with their children at home to support their learning process.

Some of the suggestions were taken from the High Reach Program and others from the Student Support Service (JFK-Preschool), the videos from youtube and the pictures from google.


The activities are classified in areas: Math, Language, Social-emotional and Motor Skills.
I hope you will find these suggestions fun and useful.

Please feel free to add comments in English or Spanish.

Miss Lupita Castillo

Shape Recognition

Shape recognition can be defined as “the ability to identify and name basic shapes”. For preschool children this skill is normally focused on basic shapes: square, triangle, circle, rectangle, diamond and oval.



Shape recognition can actually be broken down into separate skills – matching, identifying, and naming. When matching, a child can find the matching shape when shown an example. This is the first step in shape recognition. The child perceives the differences between the shapes.



Identifying is the next step. Identifying focuses on the ability to point out a shape when named.



The final step is naming. In this step the child can name the shape when asked. This is a more difficult skill than either matching or identifying.



Activity 1:                         



Take a walk with your child through your house and encourage her/him to tell you the shape of things like the doors, windows, etc.








Activity 2: Shape Sponges



Have your child stamp paint with shape sponges to create a shape collage.
Have your child create pictures by stamp painting with one particular shape (eg., rectangles).



 
 
 
 
HighReach Program 
 
 
Video: "Shape Song"

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