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Creative Writing with Shapes {Away We Go! Review and Giveaway}

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I received a free copy of Away We Go! in order to review the book. This post also contains affiliate links. If you’d like more information about either, please read my full disclosure policy.Creative Writing with Shapes {Away We Go! Review and Giveaway} | This Reading MamaI am very blessed that both my preschoolers {ages 3 and 4} LOVE to learn. I had a shape unit planned for them and was thrilled when Chiêu Anh Urban contacted me about reviewing her book, Away We Go! It fit into our theme perfectly!

FREE Away We Go! printables and activitiesI was excited to print off several of Chiêu’s free shape printables from her site and work on those with my kiddos. On her site, she has FREE coloring sheets and learning activities based around shapes. I always love it when another educator creates free, quality printables. It sure saves me time!

FREE Away We Go! printables and activities

You’ll Enjoy Away We Go! because…

  • it is full of vibrant colors and pictures, which are attractive to young readers.
  • the shapes included in the book go beyond circle, triangle, and square. You’ll find the basic shapes, but preschoolers will also be introduced to many other shapes including octagons, diamonds, and ovals.
  • it’s open-ended in nature, so it is a great springboard for other shape activities, which you can find on Chiêu’s blog. I’d like to share a couple of creative writing with shapes that we did, based on Away We Go!

Shape Pictures and Writing

gluing on shapes to create a picture | This Reading MamaInspired by the cute shape pictures in the book, I pre-cut some shapes and asked my kiddos to make a picture with as many shapes as they wanted by gluing them onto a piece of large art paper.

preschool writing based on a picture | This Reading MamaMBug {3 years old} dictated a sentence about her picture and I wrote it for her. I encouraged NJoy {just shy of 5 years old} to independently write his own sentence. He wrote: “I MAD A BESOK” {I made a beanstalk.}

Shape-and-Seek Tracing

finding shapes around our house | This Reading MamaOn another day, we had a little shape-seeking game around the house. We were looking for shapes like the ones in Away We Go! I was amazed at all the shapes they were able to find {we raided mainly our playroom and IKEA shelving system in our schoolroom.}

tracing shapes ~ great for fine motor | This Reading MamaI encouraged the kiddos to pick small objects so they could create some artwork by tracing around them. This was a bit of a challenge for MBug, but NJoy did well!

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~Becky

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  11. Lynne Smith says

    I love hearts! My kids love shapes. Last week one of the children I keep brought me the fisher price fences that connect together and said look Ms. Lynne, I made a trapezoid. She is 3 and I could not be more thrilled!

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  38. Aarti tyagi says

    Hello, myself aarti i m also a homeschooler my son is 4 yrs old. But he is unable to write n he does not take interest in coloring.I lov ur post n try to apply with him plz help me.

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