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Helping your child recognize shapes and how they relate to
one another by flipping and rotating them is key to developing
the spatial reasoning skills necessary for doing geometry later on.
Your child uses these skills everyday – for example, when she
determines if a shoe goes on the left or right foot and then
positions it so it goes on correctly.
This activity will help your child:
• Learn spatial reasoning skills
Supplies
• The printout of the Cat in the Hat separated
from Thing One and Thing Two
• Marker or crayon
• Dried pasta pieces (rigatoni works best)
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How do I do it?
itt?
1) Oh dear! The Cat has become separated from his friends Thing One and Thing Two.
Ask your child to help them get back together.
2) Find the printout of the Cat separated from Thing One and Thing Two.
3) Use a marker or crayon to draw a loose, curvy line between the Cat in one corner and
his friends in the other. The wavy line should be done in a way that your child can easily
follow it with pieces of pasta.
4) Give your child a handful of dried rigatoni pasta and ask her to line the pieces up end-to-end so they
follow the curvy path you drew. Before she puts down each piece, tell her to look carefully at the path
and decide if she needs a straight piece, a piece that curves right, or a piece that curves left.
5) When she finishes building the pasta path, praise her and say, “Great job! Now the Cat can follow
your pasta path to get back together with Thing One and Thing Two!”
Take it further
further
Make a PASTA FACE! Create a circle out of the pasta pieces, and then use other pieces for the eyes,
nose, ears, and mouth. Then ask your child if her pasta person is happy or sad.
Related
Related online game
Meerkat Jubilee
Help the Cat in the Hat tunnel deep underground to deliver invitations for the annual Meerkat Jubilee.
Find it at: pbskids.org/catinthehat/games/meerkat.html
Book
Book suggestions
suggestions
Rosie’s Walk, by Pat Hutchins
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen
Watch The Cat in th
e Hat
Knows a Lot
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