{"id":2817,"date":"2018-10-05T01:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2018-10-05T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T02:19:10","slug":"shape-sorting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/shape-sorting\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape Sorting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nShape sorter and shapes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nShape sorters are a classic preschool toy, widely praised by early educators for <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2832 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Shape-Sorting-Weston-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Shape-Sorting-Weston-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Shape-Sorting-Weston-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>promoting basic math skills, vocabulary, awareness of same\/different, and fine motor skills.&nbsp; Set a shape sorter in front of your child with all the shapes beside it.&nbsp; Explain to your preschooler that each shape has its own special \u201cdoor\u201d into the sorter, and his job is to find the right door for each shape.&nbsp; Pick up a shape and identify it to your child (a circle, triangle, star, &#8211; whatever the shape may be.)&nbsp; Give the shape to your child to examine, talking about what makes it different from the others.&nbsp; Then, let your child examine the sorter itself.&nbsp; Typically, there are cutouts for the shapes on all sides of the sorter, so you can examine the sides of the sorter, one at a time, comparing the cutouts to the shape.&nbsp; Let him try the shape in some of the cutouts, gently encouraging him to perhaps turn the shape a little to fit it into the sorter.&nbsp; Congratulate him when he finds the correct \u201cdoor\u201d.&nbsp; Then choose another shape and proceed in the same manner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;If you don\u2019t have a shape sorter, you can make a shape sorting sheet on paper.&nbsp; Trace some simple shape outlines on a piece of paper.&nbsp; Using cardboard, or another color of paper, cut out shapes to match those you\u2019ve traced.&nbsp; See if your child can lay the paper shapes on the correct outline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Shape sorter and shapes Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Shape sorters are a classic preschool toy, widely praised by early educators for promoting basic math skills, vocabulary, awareness of same\/different, and fine motor skills.&nbsp; Set a shape sorter in front of your child with all the shapes beside it.&nbsp; Explain to your preschooler &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/shape-sorting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shape Sorting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2818,"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-2817","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\/2817","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}