Round is a Tortilla... introduce shapes to your child through reading!

     Reading to and with your children is a great way to introduce concepts such as numbers, shapes, letters and colors. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, caretaker or sibling, you can encourage early literacy right at your own home. For example, try choosing a book about shapes and read it with your child. Focus on one shape throughout the entire book. If your focus is on a triangle you can then find the triangles in the book, find triangles in the house, go outside and look for triangles. Do you ever eat triangles or wear them? This can be done with all shapes. ​

Great books to focus on shapes include:

Board books: Shapes all Around by Kate Riggs or Baby Sees Shapes by Akio Kashiwara
Picture books: Mouse Shapes by Ellen Walsh and Round is a Tortilla by Rosanne Thong

Come to the Library and ask for suggestions. The Basalt Regional Library also has literacy kits on many subjects. Try the Juvenile Literacy Kits Learn Shapes!

- Kara Lindahl ​​