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The purpose of this children’s book is as stated, a means of familiarizing children with shapes and encouraging them to identify these shapes in different contexts. Within Museum Shapes, a painting or part of a painting featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection occupies the left hand of a two page spread and on the opposite side there is a question, “What shape…” The background of the question page is filled by a pattern of the shape featured in the image. The next page is subdivid...
Genre: Picture book: ConceptSummary: Museum Shapes presents beautiful works of art and encourages young students to look for the various basic shapes within the art. Critique: (a.) The multi-level appeal of this book is the artistic presentation of museum art to teach young children their shapes.(b.) Museum Shapes’ layout presents multiple opportunities for learning. While discovering and interacting with extraordinary pieces of art, students also learn their basic shapes, the names and spelling...
In this book, students look at geometric shapes in various paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two activities can come out of this book. One is to have students go around school or their homes and indentify shapes they see in everyday life. Another would be to supply students with cut-outs of geometric shapes and have them create their own shape artwork. They should write a few sentences to describe the shapes in their pictures. For older students, supply multiple versions of a shape
I'm planning to use this book with Marc Chagall's "Half Past Three" in my geometry unit.
This shape book great for getting kids talking about shapes, and also observing artwork. Simple questions about a shape in the picture, and then the next page gives more examples of artwork and the shapes symbol and name. My kids enjoyed it a lot. Definitely going to try to check out the other books in the series.
I like that the book applied shapes to actual works of art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. I also like that the book started with very basic shapes like, a circle and a square and then moved to more complex shapes like an oval and an arch. This is a great book for connecting shapes to tangible objects.
I think that there are just better books that use famous artwork to show shapes, where the shapes it's showing just are clearer and as a result do a better job of helping a kid learn his or her shapes.
A really great book with amazing illustrations from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Children can learn to identify shapes from the art work from the museum. This is great way for children to create an exciting new way to experience the real world around us.
Has little ones identify shapes and see them in famous artwork. Great way to introduce little ones to museum pieces.
I love this series. It's a great way to teach young children basic concepts (shapes, numbers, letters), while simultaneously exposing them to fine art.
This is an interesting art book. While intended for children, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the details of great art that usually blend in to the whole work. Take a look!
As a book aimed at the preschool set, who are just learning their shapes, this book really is a failure. The book uses works of art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection to demonstrate each shape but in many cases the shapes are difficult to notice in the picture or are completely different than the shape that was shown (5 pointed star versus multi pointed star). I would never recommend this book for parents trying to teach shapes.
One of my favorites shapes books.
There are probably hundreds of children's books out there on shapes — almost all featuring photographs of simple objects, or straightforward illustrations. While infants and very young toddlers who are just starting to recognise basic geometric shapes will appreciate these books, they will also tire of them very quickly. Enter, stage left, Museum Shapes by the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is the perfect book for toddlers who have already mastered the basic shapes. The most unique selling poi...
