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Tahira Hamilton
Aug 20, 2008 rated it really liked it
This is a great book about shapes! the author of this book cleaverly used basic shapes to make pictures of every day objects and animals. Each page asks the reader to find a different shape, like a circle or square. This is a very colorful book.
I would use this book to lead into a simple geography lesson for students in second grade or younger. After reading this book I would let students try and name differnt shapes I would hold up. To expand upon this lesson I would let students make their ow
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Kathy
Oct 06, 2008 rated it it was amazing
The Wing on a Flea is a book about shapes and the different places you can find them. For example a triangle could be the wing on a flea or the beak on a bird. Activity 1: This book could be used in a math lesson as you count the many different shapes and/or use the shapes to make different patterns. Activity 2: Use the story to teach a lesson on rhyming words. In a round robin activity have them make as many words as possible to rhyme with the word hat, and so on.