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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT TOOLKIT
Using PBS KIDS Media In Preschool Homes
Parent Guide
Week 7: Advanced
Shapes
Developed By
Table of Contents
Activities .............................................................................................................................. 1
Game Descriptions ....................................................................................................... 7
Worksheet: Shape Book .........................................................................................14
Worksheet: Match My Shape ...............................................................................19
Goals
To recognize,
name, and describe
advanced shapes
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Making a Shape Book
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Activity and online game
Huff-Puff-A-Tron
Online games
Chicken Blast-off
Magical Shape Hunt
Huff-Puff-A-Tron
Online games (free play)
Choice of:
Huff-Puff-A-Tron
Chicken Blast-off
Magical Shape Hunt
Sorting Box
Meerkat Jubilee
Chicken Dance
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Making a Shape Book
This Activity Will Help Your Child
• Recognize and name different two-dimensional (2-D) shapes (including circle, square, triangle,
rectangle, trapezoid, oval, and pentagon)
• Practice drawing two-dimensional (2-D) shapes
Supplies
“Shape Book” worksheet
Crayons or markers
How Do I Do It?
1. Use the “Shape Book” worksheet and help your child make a shape book. The name of a
shape is printed on the top of each page. In the space underneath the shape’s name, help your
child to draw a picture of that shape.
2. Ask your child to think of where in your home you might find each shape. You and your child
might walk around the house to find examples of each shape. Help your child to draw a
picture of a household object or a place in your home where you can see each shape.
3. As your child is drawing in his or her shape book, help your child remember the characteristics
of each shape by asking questions like:
A “How many sides does a pentagon have?”
A “Can you describe what a trapezoid looks like?”
4. When your child finishes drawing in his or her shape book, ask your child to compare two
different shapes in the shape book. You can ask your child questions like:
A “How are a square and a rectangle alike? How are they different?”
A “How are a circle and an oval alike? How are they different?”
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A “How are a rectangle and a trapezoid alike? How are they different?”
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Huff-Puff-A-Tron
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Pre-game Activity
Supplies
Scissors
9 small clear plastic bags
“Match My Shape” Multicolor Handout (for cutting)
Outline Shapes Handouts (playmat)
Build Background
In the online game Huff-Puff-a-Tron, your child will need to identify and match shapes to draw
them using the Cat in the Hat’s machine. Before starting the game, try this activity:
1. Cut out the Match My Shape worksheet and put each type of shape into a small plastic bag,
so all triangles are in one bag, all squares in another, etc. One bag will be empty in order to
put a mix of shapes in during playtime. You can also make piles of each shape, and save a
space for the “mixed” shapes pile.
2. Sit facing your child. First, you will play with the bags and shapes. Later, you will use the
Outline Shapes Handout to match and create different figures.
3. Put one of each shape into the empty bag. Leave all others in the bags in a row between you
and your child. Pull out any shape from the mixed bag and say its name, counting its sides,
describing it and tracing with a finger (e.g., “A pentagon... 1,2,3,4,5 sides”). Say:
A Can you ‘match my shape’?
4. Ask your child to put the shape on top of the bag with the matching shape type. Repeat with
each remaining shape from the mixed bag.
5. Take the triangles out of the triangle bag. Show and tell your child how you notice that the
large triangle can be made of 4 little triangles.
6. Use the large pentagon to show your child how 5 triangles can also be arranged a different
way.
7. Ask your child to see what the large square is made of. Then explore the large rectangle.
Allow your child to discover and play with the smaller shapes to make the larger shapes. The
dotted lines on the outlines, and your modeling, assist with discovery.
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8. Ask your child to help you re-sort the shapes back into their bags.
9. Put the Outline Shapes Handout between you and your child. Take turns matching the pictures, by placing the colorful cut out shapes on top of each picture. Guide him or her to
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recognize if it is a large or small shape, so it fits inside the dotted lines.
10. Encourage your child to create a new picture using other shapes at the bottom of the page
(for example: a flower or sun using a circle and triangles; a stop sign with a rectangle and
octagon, and so on).
Online Game
Getting Ready to Play
Turn on your device and select the game Huff-Puff-A-Tron.
Tell your child:
A In this game, you need to help Nick and Sally create wind to fly their kite using a special
machine called the Huff-Puff-a-Tron. Pick the shape that matches the shape pictured on
the Huff-Puff-a-Tron machine.
Play the Game
Click the level you would like to play. Start with the “Easy” level. Listen to the Cat in the Hat give
directions. Say:
A What makes that a triangle? An Octagon? A Trapezoid? A Pentagon?
A How many corners does the shape have? How many sides?
A Does an oval have any corners? Any sides? How is it different from a circle?
Tell your child to click the shape he or she wants to select and click again to drop it into the HuffPuff-a-Tron. Keep trying the different shapes until your child chooses the correct one.
While your child is playing, ask him or her to describe the shapes they are seeing in the window.
What color? How many sides? Straight edges or curved?
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If this level is easy for your child, return to the main menu and try the “medium” or “hard” level.
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Turn on your device and access today’s games. Ask your child questions while he or she is playing
the following games. Some suggestions are provided below. Discuss the answers with him or her.
Mark the checkboxes ( ) for the games that your child played today..
Chicken Blast-off
• When your child is finding the right shape of spaceship to fit the animals, ask:
A How do you know if the shape of the spaceship is the right size for the animals?
A Is that shape too big, too small, or just right to fit all of the animals inside?
• When your child is finding the right pieces to build the spaceship, ask:
A Where does that piece fit on to the spaceship?
Magical Shape Hunt
• When your child is catching the shapes, ask:
A What shape of jewel are you trying to catch?
A Can you think of anything else shaped like a sphere? Cylinder? Cube? Pyramid?
• After picking up all the jewels encourage your child to count out loud with Ramone as the
jewels go back in the chest.
Huff-Puff-a-Tron
• Tell your child he or she can move the cursor over each shape to hear its name. Ask:
A What makes that a triangle? Rectangle? Square? Circle?
A How many corners does it have? How many sides?
A Does a circle have any corners? Any sides?
• Encourage your child to count the number of sides to help find the matching shape
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Free Play
Turn on your device and access today’s games.
Your child can play any of the games listed below. Mark the checkboxes ( ) for the games that
your child chose to play today.
Huff-Puff-A-Tron
Chicken Blast-off
Magical Shape Hunt
Sorting Box
Meerkat Jubilee
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Chicken Dance
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Game Descriptions
Huff-Puff-A-Tron
Chicken Blast-off
Magical Shape Hunt
Sorting Box
Meerkat Jubilee
Chicken Dance
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Huff-Puff-A-Tron
In this game, children need to pick the shape that matches the shape pictured on the
Huff-Puff-A-Tron machine.
Click on the shape that
matches. Then click on
the Huff-Puff-A-Tron.
Huff-Puff-A-Tron
The game has 4 rounds. Children match 7 shapes in each round.
Children select the matching shape.
Children select the matching shape and color.
Children select the matching shape and pattern.
Children select the matching shape, color, and pattern.
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Round 1:
Round 2:
Round 3:
Round 4:
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Chicken Blast-off
In this game, children use 3-D shapes to build a spaceship that is just the right size and shape for
its passengers.
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Magical Shape Hunt
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In this game, children count and learn to recognize 3-D shapes.
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Sorting Box
In this game, children help May sort rocks by color.
Click on a rock, then
click on a box in the
highlighted column.
The paint splashes
show what color rock
to put in each column.
There are 3 screens in which the number of rocks and colors increase.
Screen 1: Children sort 6 rocks of 3 different colors.
Screen 2: Children sort 12 rocks of 4 different colors.
Screen 3: Children choose from 15 rocks of 4 different colors to sort 12 rocks of 3 colors.
There will be
three extra rocks
in the final screen.
Note: If children click on the picture
of Sid in the upper right corner, they
will exit the game and be taken to this
screen. To return to the Sorting Box
game, click on the box.
Click on the
box to return to
Sorting Box.
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Meerkat Jubilee
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In this game, children fill in missing parts of a tunnel so that the Cat in the Hat can deliver party
invitations to the meerkats. Children click on the tunnel piece that fits in the white square and
connects the two sides.
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Chicken Dance
In this game, children recognize and continue a pattern.
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Worksheet: Shape Book
The next four pages are the pages that make up the Shape Book for the Day 1
Activity.
To make the shape book:
Print the next four pages double sided. You should have two printed pages.
Fold the two pages in half width-wise, or hamburger-style, so that “___’s Shape Book” and
the Oval page are on the outside.
You should now have a Shape Book that increases in page number from 2 to 8.
Width-wise fold.
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Oval
Draw it:
You try it:
Shape
Book
‘s
Describe what an oval looks like.
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Circle
Trapezoid
Draw a circle:
Draw it:
Describe what a circle looks like.
You try it:
Draw a circular thing.
Describe what a trapezoid looks like.
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Pentagon
Square
Draw it:
Draw a square:
You try it:
Count the number of sides.
How many sides does a square have?
Draw a square thing.
Count the number of sides.
How many sides does a pentagon have?
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Triangle
Rectangle
Draw a triangle:
Draw a rectangle:
Count the number of sides.
How many sides does a triangle have?
Count the number of sides.
How many sides does a rectangle have?
Draw a triangular thing.
Draw a rectanglular thing.
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“MATCH MY SHAPE” MULTICOLOR HANDOUT
Circle
Oval
Trapezoid
Triangle
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“MATCH MY SHAPE” MULTICOLOR HANDOUT
Square
Octagon
Rectangle
Pentagon
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“MATCH MY SHAPE” MULTICOLOR HANDOUT
Use your colorful shapes to match on top of these pictures.
What else can you make with the shapes?
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