Help your child find shapes that make up our everyday world, such as:

• Circles: wheels, dishes, wall clocks, pizza, cookies
• Squares: floor tiles, checker board
• Rectangles: TVs, windows, doors, refrigerators, cell phones
• Ovals: eggs, watermelon, football
• Triangles: slice of pizza or pie, sandwich cut diagonally, yield sign

• Talk about the weather – temperature, wind, cloud shapes, percipitation, rainbows
• Plant a garden together
• Identify different types of insects; talk about their life cycles e.g. caterpillars, cocoons, butterflies
• Identify types of fish, water plants, and other aquatic life in our local lakes
• Identify different species of local wildlife. Talk about how they live and what they eat.
• Explore types of materials – discover which materials magnets will and will not stick to