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This morning I did a shape program with my 3 - 5 program. After we talked about shapes we then went on a shape walk. At the moment I am currently operating in a P.A.L. building so there is a huge gym in my building which is where we took our walk. When we got into the gym I let the kids have at it to find shapes. One little girl very excitedly told me that the huge fan in the gym was a circle.

I loved that moment but the bigger moment came when I did the shape program with my 6 and up storytime. We worked with tangrams in that group. One boy, who will turn 7 tomorrow, had a little trouble getting started but then something clicked and he started flying through the level 1 puzzles. I gave him a level 2 puzzle which he seemed to do fairly easily so I had him turn it over. He was having some difficulty getting the pieces to work together in the new puzzle so I had him move one of the big triangles. He did, which of course changed the shape of his puzzle so we tried to fit the remaining pieces in with no success. We tried a number of times to change this one big triangle hoping it would all work out. Finally he put the big triangle in where it need to be and I asked him if he thought his remaining pieces would fit in the space that was left. He looked at the puzzle and his pieces and then looked up at me with the biggest smile on his face. He then bent over his puzzle again and put the last three pieces in grinning the whole time. How great!

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing your moment, and also for bringing to light your shape program. My husband is a math tutor in our kid's public school, and while I know that our libraries do a great job taking part in literacy efforts, I don't think I hear enough about public libraries promoting math literacy in their programs.

I'd love to hear more about it :-) and about any other math programs going on out there.