Toby's Block Builders: One-Shape Builds

Toby the Toolbox builds shapes with just one kind of pattern block, and kindergartners count along. Flash-count triangles on a 5-frame and a 10-frame (with one more look if you need it), fill a square puzzle with orange squares, watch Toby fill a big turned square, find the shape that really is a square, and count the same slanted puzzle filled two ways: 8 blue rhombuses or 16 green triangles. Smaller blocks, more blocks! Fully narrated, with a spoken hint after every wrong answer.

• 14 narrated activities: four quick looks, a square puzzle to fill, and six block counts
• A drag-and-snap pattern block puzzle
• Designs Toby builds row by row, so children can count or see the rows
• Spoken hints after every wrong answer

• Say how many triangles are in a quick look at a 5-frame or 10-frame and some more.
• Fill a square with smaller squares, and count the blocks you used.
• Tell a square from other shapes made of squares.
• Count the blocks in a puzzle filled two ways, and notice that smaller blocks take more.