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Montessori: Shape Work
Learn shapes the Montessori way! Based on the proven Montessori teaching method, Shape Work introduces young readers to shapes by identifying shapes by category (triangles, rounds, parallelograms, and polygons) and associated objects.
Each shape is die-cut for readers to trace with their fingers and illustrated by Alyssa Nassner with a familiar object for relevancy.
Written by Bobby and June George, founders of the Baan Dek Montessori School, the Montessori series introduces young readers to key concepts by beginning with the concrete and moving to the abstract. With each book, young readers absorb age-appropriate information and gain a better understanding of the world around them.
The Abrams Montessori
Letter Work
Number Work
Shape Work
Map Work
Planet Work
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Each shape is die-cut for readers to trace with their fingers and illustrated by Alyssa Nassner with a familiar object for relevancy.
Written by Bobby and June George, founders of the Baan Dek Montessori School, the Montessori series introduces young readers to key concepts by beginning with the concrete and moving to the abstract. With each book, young readers absorb age-appropriate information and gain a better understanding of the world around them.
The Abrams Montessori
Letter Work
Number Work
Shape Work
Map Work
Planet Work
Seed Work <!--? prefix = o ns = "" /-->
18 pages, Board Book
First published August 6, 2013
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March 25, 2021
This series is great! This particular title got my 2 year old started noticing 'rounds' every where she looks now.
October 2, 2021
I might just be cranky today and being extra nitpicky (my husband thinks so) but I don't love that the page with the pentagon/hexagon/octagon is labeled as "polygons." Yes, they are, but that implies to me that the pages of "triangles" and "parallelograms" are not polygons. (Which of course is inaccurate.)
I wish this used the same sandpaper texture on the shape outlines as the other books in the series. I have other nitpicks but I'll refrain. 😅
I wish this used the same sandpaper texture on the shape outlines as the other books in the series. I have other nitpicks but I'll refrain. 😅
June 8, 2018
simple finger-traceable shapes
August 10, 2013
Richie's Picks: MONTESSORI: SHAPE WORK (board book) by Bobby George, June George, and Alyssa Nassner, ill., Abrams Appleseed, August 2013, 18p., ISBN: 978-1-4197-0935-7
"All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown,
Moon rolls through the nighttime 'till the daybreak comes around"
-- Harry Chapin
"The beams and the bridges cut the light on the ground
Into little triangles and the rails run round"
-- Suzanne Vega
"You're so square, Baby I don't care"
-- Leiber and Stoller
In my younger years, while studying child development and learning about the Montessori approach, I found a lot to like about it and to employ in my work of educating little kids. Multi-age groupings; setting up centers to permit child choice and free movement; extended blocks of work time; hands-on learning by working with materials; and engaging in purposeful activities, these all did and still do strike a chord with me.
And so this Montessori philosophy-inspired board book that visually and tactually introduces young children to three different types of triangles (isosceles, equilateral, right-angled); to three different types of rounds (circle, ellipse, oval; to three different types of parallelograms (square, rectangle, rhombus); and to three different types of polygons (pentagon, hexagon, octagon) is a book that I am excited to now have in my toolbox for sharing when my new grandson gets a little bit older.
For each of these shapes, there are both die-cuts to feel and real world examples to recognize. For instance, you have a painting of a sailboat with right-angled triangles; a framed mirror in the shape of an ellipse; a soccer ball covered with pentagons; and a tractor trailer in profile, showing us a rectangle.
And this, of course, is what we want young children doing -- going out into their environment and observing the shapes of road signs and architectural components and designs on sweaters. Real-world geometry. Great stuff!
"Shine on you crazy rhombus"
--Pink Floyd
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.com
BudNotBuddy@aol.com
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"All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown,
Moon rolls through the nighttime 'till the daybreak comes around"
-- Harry Chapin
"The beams and the bridges cut the light on the ground
Into little triangles and the rails run round"
-- Suzanne Vega
"You're so square, Baby I don't care"
-- Leiber and Stoller
In my younger years, while studying child development and learning about the Montessori approach, I found a lot to like about it and to employ in my work of educating little kids. Multi-age groupings; setting up centers to permit child choice and free movement; extended blocks of work time; hands-on learning by working with materials; and engaging in purposeful activities, these all did and still do strike a chord with me.
And so this Montessori philosophy-inspired board book that visually and tactually introduces young children to three different types of triangles (isosceles, equilateral, right-angled); to three different types of rounds (circle, ellipse, oval; to three different types of parallelograms (square, rectangle, rhombus); and to three different types of polygons (pentagon, hexagon, octagon) is a book that I am excited to now have in my toolbox for sharing when my new grandson gets a little bit older.
For each of these shapes, there are both die-cuts to feel and real world examples to recognize. For instance, you have a painting of a sailboat with right-angled triangles; a framed mirror in the shape of an ellipse; a soccer ball covered with pentagons; and a tractor trailer in profile, showing us a rectangle.
And this, of course, is what we want young children doing -- going out into their environment and observing the shapes of road signs and architectural components and designs on sweaters. Real-world geometry. Great stuff!
"Shine on you crazy rhombus"
--Pink Floyd
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.com
BudNotBuddy@aol.com
Moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_... http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/facult...
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