Early Math Project

Can you blow a heart-shaped bubble with a heart-shaped wand?

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Topics: shapes, patterns, cause and effect, spatial awareness, science

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Activities To Do Together:

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Use the book Circle! Sphere! to explore the shapes of everyday objects.

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While reading the book Circle! Sphere! try the following:

•  Notice the different shapes of the wands and the shape of the bubble each wand makes. What do you notice?

• Count what you see in the story. Wands, bubbles, children.

•  Compare the size of the bubbles on the book cover or last page of the story.

• Talk about how spheres and circles are different.

 

When you have finished reading the story try the following:

• Blow bubbles for your child to look at and reach. This is great practice for tracking moving objects and also supports eye-hand coordination.

•  Look for circles and spheres around you. Marbles, oranges, and tennis balls are examples of spheres that may be familiar to your child.

• Blow bubbles and describe where they are with positional words like “up,” “down,” “under,” and “over.”

• Make bubble wands of different shapes with wire. Use them to blow bubbles. See if you can make a wand that produces a bubble that isn’t a sphere

•  Blow bubbles and play “Simon Says” with both a bubble popping and positional word twist. Ask your child to pop a bubble only when they hear a direction preceded by the words “Simon says.” For example, your child would pop a bubble when they hear “Simon says pop a bubble near your face,” but do nothing when they hear the direction “Pop a bubble beside your shoe.”

• Explore how spheres (balls) and cubes/rectangular prisms (boxes) move. Try stacking and rolling these shapes. What differences do you notice? 

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Please check out the Book Guide for Circle! Sphere! for more!

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Online External Resources for Circle! Sphere!:

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