This week we read the book Grandfather Tang's Story, by Ann Tompert, continuing with our exploration of two dimensional shapes.  This is a Chinese folk tale about two fairy foxes told in tangrams, which are seven shapes cut from a square that are arranged to make other shapes.  In this story the foxes shift their shapes to become different animals.  After we read the story, children explored with plastic tangram pieces and then made their own pictures using tangrams cut out of paper.