Category: Geometry, Spatial Awareness & Shapes

  • The Clothes We Wear

    Your Child Will Learn

    Clothing is a creative form of expression

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut up some fabric scraps or old clothes with bright and interesting colors and designs
    2. Ask your child to draw a self-portrait and have them
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  • Robot Directions

    Your Child Will Learn

    Positional words and spatial awareness

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a goal that you will direct your child, “the robot,” to reach.
    2. Give your child a series of directions to help them get to the goal.
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  • Playground Hide and Seek

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using positional words to understand the location of an object

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Bring a small toy to the playground.
    2. Ask your child to cover their eyes. Hide the toy somewhere on the playground. 
    3. Help
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  • Position Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to follow directions with position words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a toy and a box big enough to fit the toy inside
    2. Ask your child to place the toy in and out of the
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  • Position Practice

    Your Child Will Learn

    Positional Words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. As you go through your day,  try to focus on using positional words when talking to your baby.
    2. Examples of positional words: above/below, in front/behind, between, next to, inside/outside, over/under,
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  • I Spy Shopping

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using positional words to locate an object

    Here’s What to Do

    1. In a store, ask your child to play a game of “I Spy” to help you find items on the shelves.
    2. When you see an
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  • Playground Hide and Seek

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using positional words to describe the location of an object

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Bring a small toy to the playground.
    2. Ask your child to hide the toy somewhere on the playground. Cover your eyes while
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  • Shape Walk

    Your Child Will Learn

    Words we use to describe different shapes

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Head outside with your child for a walk.
    2. Look for differently-shaped objects at your child’s eye level.
    3. Point to the objects and talk about their
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  • Shape Monsters

    Your Child Will Learn

    Drawing and combining shapes to make a new object

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to choose and draw a large shape on a piece of paper, and then to cut it out. This will
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  • Animal Face Shapes

    Your Child Will Learn

    Drawing shapes and noticing how objects can be broken down into smaller shapes

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to choose an animal’s face to draw (some ideas: dog, cat, pig, rabbit, koala).
    2. Have your
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