 After a very long break, here I am back with a fantastic recommendation for your preschool/elementary ESL classroom. SHAPE BY SHAPE by Suse MacDonald, is an exciting read-aloud that introduces children to the English names for basic shapes (circle, semi-circle, triangle, diamond, etc.) all while involving them in an exciting "guessing game" to guess the animal. The book begins with a nearly blank page with two small dots and the words... "Do you know what I am? I lived a long, long time ago." Page by page, cut-out circles, triangles, crescents, etc. are added to finally become a big green dinosaur. My students LOVED this book. In fact, they asked me to read it not once, not twice, but THREE times before beginning our ESL games. After reading the book, I introduced 4 basic shapes (3 for the smallest kids): square, circle, triangle, and diamond. As always, I got the kids actively involved forming the shapes with their arms and legs. Afterward, we had a shapes scavenger hunt. The kids outdid themselves!  Finally, we finished with a shape cutting activity from ESL KidsStuff which the kids really enjoyed while practicing their fine-motor cutting and glueing skills.
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