Muffin Tin/Math Monday

It's been a long time since we participated in Muffin Tin Monday.  When I saw that this week's theme was "shapes" though, I decided to throw something together, because we've been talking shapes often around here lately.  Besides, he's been asking me to eat out of his muffin tin for awhile now.  Last week I introduced rhombus, trapezoid, and parallelogram to the Bibliophile, so I included those with his lunch, along with some shapes he already knows and a new one (sphere).   I printed off twelve squares of paper with shapes typed on them (circle, rectangle, oval, triangle, square, rhombus, trapezoid, semicircle, star, parallelogram, crescent, and sphere), and rummaged through my cupboards for matching foods.  Here is what I prepared:

From left to right, starting with the top row: Enjoy Life "Happy Apple" cookie (CIRCLE), blueberry fruit strip (RECTANGLE), potato chip (OVAL), nacho chip (TRIANGLE), Josef's cinnamon cookie (SQUARE), carved blueberry fruit strip (RHOMBUS), carved sweet potato (TRAPEZOID), half of a potato chip (SEMICIRCLE), candy sprinkles (STAR), carved sweet potato (PARALLELOGRAM and rather messy CRESCENT), chicken nuggets (SPHERE)

Once I showed it to him, I removed all of the little pieces of paper, and then let him match them all up.  He got them all on the first try, little smartiepants.

Looking for books about shapes? (Link goes to our previous reviews).

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