Learn your shapes with Little Fish in this fun, rhyming book. With finger trails for little hands, children will love tracing shapes in this deep-sea delight from Lucy Cousins, creator of Hooray for Fish!
Hello! I am Little Fish, swimming in the sea.
I love seeing shapes. Come along with me!
Join Little Fish on a fun adventure, tracing shapes along the way! Inspired by Hooray for Fish! this charming board book features all the key shapes for little ones to learn and a bouncy, rhyming text. Young children will love tracing and learning shapes in this sturdy finger trail board book from the multi-award-winning Lucy Cousins.
Shapes with Little Fish
(9781406391930)
Written & illustrated by Lucy Cousins
Published by Walker Books
Theme/topic: Rhyme and Shapes
Shapes with Little Fish is a bright and engaging picture book that introduces young children to basic shapes through playful underwater adventures. The book helps early learners name, describe and trace shapes (AC9MFSP01, ACMMG009 – Foundation Year, Mathematics) through simple, rhythmic text (AC9EFLY09, ACELA1439 – Foundation Year, English), which also supports reading while fostering early geometric awareness. In addition, the cheerful character of Little Fish guides readers through a lively exploration of shape recognition in an accessible and interactive way.
Curriculum Alignment:
- These AC codes are suggested purely based on the book’s content and are provided for reference only.
AC9EFLY09 9.0 (English Language and Literacy Foundation): Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)
• recognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes; for example, “funny” and “money”
• identifying patterns of alliteration in spoken words; for example, “helpful Henry”
• identifying syllables in spoken words; for example, clapping the rhythm of “Mon-day”, “Ja-cob” or “Si-en-na”
AC9MFSP01 9.0 (Mathematics Foundation): Sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons
• sorting a collection of shapes into groups based on different features such as the number of sides, colour or size, and describing how they have been sorted.
• creating a picture using a variety of shapes and a range of materials, including objects to trace around, describing the shapes they have created or used and sharing why they chose each shape in their picture
• creating familiar shapes using groups of people; for example, holding hands and creating a circle
• recognising and naming shapes that are (close to) rectangles, squares, triangles and circles in component parts of everyday items; for example, on bicycles, toy vehicles or kitchen pantry items
• describing and naming shapes within objects that can be observed on Country/Place, recreating and sorting into groups based on their shape
ACELA1439 8.4 (English Language and Literacy Foundation): Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
• recognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes, for example ’funny’ and ’money’
• identifying patterns of alliteration in spoken words, for example ‘helpful Henry’
• identifying syllables in spoken words, for example clapping the rhythm of ‘Mon-day’, ‘Ja-cob’ or ‘Si-en-na’
ACMMG009 8.4 (Mathematics Foundation): Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment
• sorting and describing squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, spheres and cubes
