Dear Parents: Today we used some of these books, fingerplays, and other materials in our toddler and preschool storytimes. Please continue helping your child develop a love for books and reading by sharing these rhymes, books, and other activities with your child.

Books To Share

Color Farm by Lois Ehlert

Shape By Shape by Suse MacDonald

My Heart Is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Lots of Dots by Craig Frazier

Square Cat by Elizabeth Schoonmaker The Wing On a Flea by Ed Emberley

Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Perfect Square by Michael Hall

The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Circles, Stars, and Squares by Jane Brocket

Go, Shapes, Go! by Denise Fleming

Circle by Mac Barnett

Round is a Mooncake by Rosanne Thong

Fun With Fingerplays and Songs

Shape-a-Doodle Shape-a-doodle, shape-a-doodle, cock-a-doodle-doo. The rooster and the hen have plenty to do. They need to build a nest oh cock-a doodle-dear And make that nest a circle. Can you find one here? Shape-a-doodle, shape-a-doodle, cock-a-doodle-doo. The rooster and the hen have plenty to do. The hen lays an egg oh cock-a-doodle-dear. That egg is an oval. Can you find one here? Shape-a-doodle, shape-a-doodle, cock-a-doodle-doo. The rooster and the hen have plenty to do. They must clean up the barn oh cock-a-doodle-dear The barn door is a square. Can you find one here? Where is Triangle (Tune: “Where Is Thumbkin?”) Where is triangle? Where is triangle? Here I am. Here I am. How are you today, sir? Very well, I thank you. Run away. Run away. (Repeat with circle, rectangle, square, diamond)

Shapes

Dear Parents and Caregivers: Our Toddler and Preschool storytimes celebrate the diversity of people, places, and more through books, fingerplays, and other materials. Please continue helping your child develop a love for the world around them and a love for books and reading by sharing these rhymes, books, and other activities with your child. To learn more about our Storytime Values, please see https://read.poudrelibraries.org/kids/storytime.cfm

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Updated 7.19

Other Fun Things

Shape Walk

Look for shapes in everyday things. Go on a shape scav-

enger hunt and find circles, triangles, squares and more.

Shape Snacks

Have a shape snack or meal. Try square crackers,

round fruits, sandwich triangles and anything else you can

think of.

Shape Art

Cut out a bunch of shapes (different sizes and colors) and,

using a piece of construction paper, crayons, glue, scissors,

and foam stickers, have your child use their imagination to

create a masterpiece.

Shape Song

(Tune: "The Farmer in the Dell")

A circle's like a ball,

A circle's like a ball,

Round and round

It never stops.

A circle's like a ball!

A rectangle has 4 sides,

A rectangle has 4 sides,

A rectangle is like a box.

A rectangle has 4 sides!

A square has four sides,

A square has four sides,

All four sides,

They are the same.

A square has four sides

A triangle has 3 sides,

A triangle has 3 sides,

Up the mountain,

Down, and back.

A triangle has 3 sides!

Right Circle, Left Square

Close my eyes,

shut them tight,

Make a circle

with my right.

Keep them shut,

make it fair,

With my left hand, make a square.

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