Tagged as: Color Farm
Color Farm by Lois Ehlert
In Color Farm by Lois Ehlert the author creates a playful collection of animals from geometric graphics and overlays. The designs stack up to form stylized faces of barnyard animals, with changing combinations creating new faces as pages are turned.
Series: Book Ideas
At-Home Activity Cards: Shapes
March 23, 2020
Books can illustrate kindergarten and preschool shape concepts while introducing foundational Big Ideas of math. These activity cards can help take the learning to the home environment where parents and caregivers can spark such discussion.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Tana Hoban, Lois Ehlert, Roseanne Thong, Shapes Shapes Shapes, Round as a Tortilla, Color Farm, Color Zoo, Cubes Cones Cylinders & Spheres, download
Series: Ideas at Work February 6, 2017
Valentine’s Day Math Can Spark a Love of Symmetry
Cutting paper hearts for Valentine’s Day math fun is a common, early experience with symmetry for many young children.
- Topic: Number Operations, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Seasonal, Holiday, Lois Ehlert, Color Farm, When a Line Bends...A Shape Begins, Rhonda Gowler, Operations
Series: Book Ideas July 25, 2016
4 More Kids’ Books Packed with Geometry
For kids books, geometry doesn't have to just be reciting the shapes. Here are books that can begin rich geometrical discussions.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Animals, Blocks, Arts, Pat Hutchins, Daniel Kirk, Betsy Franco, Lois Ehlert, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lucy Micklethwait, Color Farm, Color Zoo, Block City, Grandpa's Quilt, I Spy Shapes in Art
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