Cinderella Eat Your Heart Out: The Queen of Hearts: A Shape Story by Jean Warren Flannelboard

Welcome to the royal ball! Join The Queen of Hearts as she tries on a bevy of frocks that keep her looking in tip-top shape. The kids had a blast during this fabulous shape recognition and language arts-based lesson plan featuring a queen who "just loved hearts". 

It was perfect for Mother's Day! 

The Queen of Hearts: A Shape Story Flannel board by Jean Warren (Lang. Arts - Retelling a story through a flannelboard and Math- Shape recognition)  (Source: Preschoolexpress.com)

To Do: Use coloring pages or Cricut cartridges to create queen and dresses templates. Give each student one of the shape dresses during circle time. Read the flannel board story, The Queen of Hearts: A Shape Story by Jean Warren and have each student place the appropriate shape dress (shape recognition) on board during appropriate sections as you are reading the story. Continue until all the dresses have been placed on the board. 

*Teacher Tip: You may also use this flannel board if you are doing a royalty or letter Q unit. 

The Queen of Hearts: A Shape Story by Jean Warren 

The Queen of Hearts, she just loved hearts.

She had them all around.

She wore them on her dresses

And on her jeweled crown.

Then one day, she got tired of hearts
Because hearts were everywhere.
So she ordered six new gowns
That sometimes, she could wear.

One was full of triangles.
One had lots of squares.
One was poke-a-dotted,
With circles everywhere.

One was filled with rectangles.
One had lots of stars.
One was sewn with diamonds,
That sparkled from afar.

Now the queen was happy.
She had lots of different gowns.
But always on her head,
She wore her heart shaped crown.

Source: Preschoolexpress.com You have to check this site out! It is a fantastic source for all things early childhood education! 

This Little Pilgrim is Really Taking Shape: Pilgrim Boy Shape Identification Flannelboard

Get your little pilgrims interested in identifying (naming) their shapes with this Pilgrim Boy Shape Identification Puzzle that is totally Mayflower-worthy!

Subject: Math- Identifying shapes that make up the Pilgrim boy and piecing together a "flannelboard puzzle".

To Do: Create the flannelboard by cutting out the following shapes:

• 1 diamond (shirt) 
• 2 white triangles (collar)
• 2 small circles (ears)
•  1 medium saucer-shaped circle (face) (Hint: Use a saucer to create the template)
• 1 star for (mouth)
• 2 ovals (eyes)
• 1 heart (nose)
• hair
• 1 long rectangle (brim of hat)
• 1 medium square (hat)
• 1 thin rectangle (ribbon on hat)
• 1 small square (buckle of hat)

Laminate the flannelboard pieces. Place hook and loop on the flannelboard pieces. 

To Do: Take a photo of the flannelboard and print out to show the children before they complete this learning activity. For easier completion of flannelboard, leave on the more difficult sections to place on board, such as the diamond shirt and triangles collar, but remember to still have the children identify (name) these shapes. Example: What shape is the pilgrim's shirt? After they have correctly answered this, pass out the rest of shapes to the students in your circletime. Have the children name the shapes and look at the picture you had previously taken of the flannelboard (in order to piece together the pilgrim flannelboard "puzzle".)  Continue until all students have named their shapes and placed them on the flannelboard. 

Who ever said pilgrims were plain? Plain cute is more like it!