Pacca Alpaca: Rectangle
Pacca Alpaca finds rectangles everywhere, from a phone and a waffle to train carriages and a phone box, then asks children to find some. Ages 4 to 9.
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What is Pacca Alpaca: Rectangle about?
Pacca Alpaca: Rectangle is an animated video for children aged 4 to 9 in which Pacca Alpaca shows them the rectangle in the everyday things all around them.
Pacca Alpaca is a fantastically fluffy guide who travels the world with children, discovering languages and cultures along the way. This episode is part of his shapes series, and it opens at a blackboard covered in chalk shapes.
Then the word RECTANGLE is called out again and again as rectangles come on the screen in real photographs and film, some of them traced with a bright outline. Children see a cereal bar, a wall shelf full of soft toys, a mobile phone (with Pacca calling), a waffle, a TV remote and a television, a mirror, a picnic basket, a radiator, a toy brick, a flight of stairs, a microwave, a lunch box, a brick wall, a red telephone box and a radio. There are big rectangles too: the windows of a tall glass office building, where Pacca is busy cleaning, and the carriages of an old wooden train and a modern one.
Pacca joins in with all of it, tasting the waffle, looking at himself in the mirror and dancing by the radio. At the end, the challenge comes: "Your turn! Find some rectangles!" The video lasts about three minutes and is not music-free.
What your child will learn
- A rectangle has four sides and four corners, with two long sides and two short ones.
- Many everyday things, like doors, phones and windows, are rectangles.
- We can play a game of finding shapes at home.
Talk about it afterwards
- Can you find a rectangle in this room?
- Which rectangles did Pacca Alpaca find in the kitchen?
- Is a door a rectangle? What about a book?
- How is a rectangle different from a square?
Frequently asked questions
What age is Pacca Alpaca: Rectangle suitable for?
Children aged 4 to 9, especially young children who are learning to name shapes.
How long is Pacca Alpaca: Rectangle?
About 3 minutes.
What does Pacca Alpaca: Rectangle teach children?
The rectangle, and how to spot it in everyday things such as phones, windows, trains and telephone boxes.
