![]() ![]() If a child identifies a door as a rectangle, they can either draw a picture of the door or a picture of a rectangle. Once the children have located a shape on their sheets, they are to draw that same shape next to the original shape to indicate that they have found the shape. They can find the actual shape, or an object that is shaped like one of the shapes that they discussed while reading the book. Show the shape hunt recording sheets to the children and explain that they will now go on a hunt around the room to try to find the shapes that they looked at in the book. Step 3: Engage children in lesson activities. By the end of the book, you will have a poster that has identified the shapes in the book, as well as objects that have those shapes. For example: Cutout of oval → OVAL → egg, big rock, football, rug. Leave space next to the shape so that you can write down a few objects that are in the shape of an oval. the oval-shaped boulder) identify the shape by taping your cut-out oval shape onto your large poster paper and writing “ oval“ next to the shape. ![]() As you come to an object that represents one of the shapes (e.g. Ask: “What shape is the rising sun?” Continue to ask the names of the various shapes included in the secret message. When you get to the part in the book that reads: “When the (shape of a half circle) comes up” the children will most likely chime in “sun.” Instead of the word “sun” in the book, there is a semicircle shape.Read the secret message with the children. Read the book, The Secret Birthday Message.Refocus their attention on the book and ask them to save their observations for their hunts. Ask: “What shapes do you see?” (stars, squares, rectangles) Ask: “I wonder if we will find these shapes on our shape hunt? What do you think?” The children might start to look around the room and call out various shapes that they see. We are going to find the same shapes on our shape hunt.” ![]() In this book, a boy decodes a secret message by following the shapes in the book. Say: “Before we go on our shape hunt, we will read The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle. This is similar to a scavenger hunt in that you find hidden objects, but on this shape hunt, the children will locate different shapes around the room.
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