Color Farm

This is a good book to use for a very young child that may be in preschool or to have in your library in a Kindergarten classroom. This book does not have a plot to follow and cannot be used for teaching many literary lessons. This book is good for teaching children about different shapes. It is fun to see what the book is going to change into next depending on what shapes you add and what you take away. You can have students look and tell you what shapes they see making up different parts of the animals to help them learn or practice their shapes. You can also have them tell you the different colors of the shapes and then tell you what color that part of the animal would be if it were real. This is also good to teach young children show more about different animals and about what those animals may say. You can talk to your students about perception and how if you look at it a different way, you may see it a little differently or how they may see it differently than their neighbor. For an activity, you can have students find 10 different shapes in the room that different objects are made out of so they can see how everything is made out of different shapes. show less

This book is so creative with cut out shapes that engage the reader and vibrant colors. The shapes of the book form animals like an optical allusion, great for challenging the brain.

Color Farm is a wordless picture book that captures all of the animals on a farm, but depicted in an unusual way. She begins the book with a poem about the animals on a farm. As you turn the page, you see a fam animal that is made out of a mathematical shape. The name of the animal is written in the corner. On the opposing side of the page, Elhert has used a solid color with the cutout shape, and names the shape in the lower corner. This continues throughout the book.
Elhert's use of cut-outs makes this a book like none other. The bright colors are sure to keep a child's attention.
I think this would be a great book to use when teaching shapes and colors.

Color Farm is truly an inventive and engaging book that allows the reader to not only learn but to play with the shapes and animals. The simple turning of the page changes one barnyard animal into another and at the same time reveals to the reader the various shapes make up that animal.

This was a delightful book. It showed you different ways animals can be made using simple shapes. The colors were vibrant and able to hols the attention of the reader. This book also had a feature that allowed for the layering of the shaped while they were cut out of the page. This was another delightful feture of this book, making it interactive.

No plot, but clever die cut shapes stacked to make common farm animals.

This book would be great to use as an interactive read aloud because you will be able to help students identify and practice using shapes such as square, circle, rectangle, and triangle. I also allows students to identify colors and discuss different types of farm animals, along with the sounds they make or features they have. It also allows teachers to use interactive activities with shapes to see what the students can come up with. This book would be used in elementary grades such as K-1 because this is when they begin learning colors, shapes, and animals. The standards also state that children in these grade levels needs to be able to identify and describe the relationship between illustrations, which will be completed when they show more recognize that all of the animals are related because they are farm animals. This book for students to realize the importance of creativity as the theme and express their creativity by using their imagination to see what they can come up with. show less