We began by reading a book about the shape of things to reinforce the concept that shapes make up the world around us. The book contained simple rhymes and illustrations to help illustrate the idea to be able to distinguish the shapes in nature and the environment. One example we discussed and drew began with a diamond shape, which we transformed into a kite when we added some string - or a tail to it. Alexandra was encouraged to manipulate, draw, compare, describe, sort, and represent shapes in a variety of ways in order to develop and concretize ideas about shapes. We expanded this concept by working on exercises which included a discussion of geometric shapes using math vocabulary. Alexandra was prompted to describe shapes and other objects using relationship words like, 'near, 'under, 'by,' on top of,' below,' 'right,' and 'left.' I also introduced Alexandra to another book which challenged her to count and distinguish shapes up to 50. We continued reading another book that tasked Alexandra with skip counting by 2's 5's and 10's. We used an abacus to show different ways to show and represent numbers and Alexandra worked independently on an exercise in which she looked at objects and then drew a circle around the solid figure on the line next to it that looked like its shape. She was also tasked with naming it. To stimulate higher-order thinking, Alexandra was prompted to name the solid figure shown and to then draw two additional objects that looked like that shape. She showed a very good understanding and execution of tasks given to her.