{"id":131,"date":"2016-05-07T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=131"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:54:03","slug":"sorting-purple-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/sorting-purple-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting Purple Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b><b><\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1336\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/circle2-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/circle2-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/circle2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Purple construction paper (light and dark colors)<br \/>\nScissors<br \/>\n2-3 size circular objects to trace around<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nOn purple paper, trace around 2-3 different circle shapes.&nbsp; Cut out circles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1337\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/cirlce3-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/cirlce3-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/cirlce3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Invite your child to sort the circles into two groups:&nbsp; big and little<br \/>\nSort using a different criteria:&nbsp; light purple circles and dark purple circles<\/p>\n<p>For an added challenge, encourage your child to copy your pattern.&nbsp; Then she can try extending&nbsp;the pattern that you have started with the circles.&nbsp; Once your child understands that a pattern repeats, invite your child to create their own pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Purple construction paper (light and dark colors) Scissors 2-3 size circular objects to trace around Directions On purple paper, trace around 2-3 different circle shapes.&nbsp; Cut out circles. Invite your child to sort the circles into two groups:&nbsp; big and little Sort using a different criteria:&nbsp; light purple circles and dark purple circles For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/sorting-purple-circles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sorting Purple Circles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}