🌎 Finding Shapes in the Waiting Room

🧺 Materials

• the waiting room
• magazines or signs nearby

📋 Instructions (parent)

1. Tell your child you are going on a quiet shape hunt while you wait.
2. Ask them to find something that is a círculo (circle), like a clock.
3. Next ask for a cuadrado (square) and a triángulo (triangle).
4. Each time they spot one, have them whisper the Spanish shape name.
5. Keep a tally on your fingers of how many shapes they found and count the total in Spanish.

➕ Extension ideas

• Draw the three shapes on the back of a form and label them in Spanish.
• Look for the same shapes at home later and name them in Spanish.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

💬 Conversation prompts

• ¿Dónde ves un círculo?
• ¿Puedes encontrar un cuadrado?
• ¿Qué forma tiene la puerta?
• ¿Cuántas formas encontraste?
• ¿Cuál forma fue la más difícil de encontrar?

🔑 Vocabulary

• la forma — the shape
• el círculo — the circle
• el cuadrado — the square
• el triángulo — the triangle
• el reloj — the clock
• la puerta — the door