Building Visual Discrimination, Geometric Knowledge, & Nurturing Young Artists!
A great way to empower students to become independent artist, improve visual discrimination, and increase geometric knowledge is to make shape people! We have been studying geometric shapes in math. To make our studies authentic, we drew ourselves using shapes in our Journals. I love using composition notebooks that can easily have a sheet attached with a glue stick to make a permanent worksheet saved in a "journal."
The Instructions: Draw a Person
Draw a circle head.
Draw a square body.
Draw rectangle arms and rectangle legs.
Draw oval shoes, an oval nose and oval ears.
Draw circle hands and circle eyes.
Draw a mouth, and add hair!
A few days later, we transferred our geometric -people -drawing -skills to a construct model of ourselves.
The Instructions:
Remember the people we made yesterday using shapes? Today we are going to make us using those same shapes! Remind students the directions as listed above. Encourage students to tear the construction paper to make hair; tearing paper builds hand muscles.
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Teaching Geometry, Flat and 3d Shapes is a new addition "Math Through Play" series.
This math unit is developmentally appropriate and *classroom-tested for early learners. The lessons are geared for a typical Kindergarten classroom and can be easily adapted for Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten, or any Homeschool setting.
As a bonus, many of the lessons are scripted to allow for easy lesson delivery without a lot of preparation, and also, it can be easily handed to a teaching assistant or a parent volunteer with confidence that the lesson objective and content will be delivered!
* The table of contents are clearly outlined to make lesson preparation a breeze.
* The unit includes extras such as delivering number talks, number songs, adding play to the math curriculum, as well as ideas of how to use the calendar and manipulatives in your math routine.
* Each week includes four or five lessons to build knowledge and experience in mathematical knowledge.
Each lesson is linked to Common Core standards!
These lessons can be delivered to the whole group, or easily used as small group lessons.
Contents:
Guided Reader: Shapes
Music: Shape Song
Number Talks: Shapes
Playful Math Across the Day: Spread these throughout the unit and beyond
Dramatic Play:
3 Bear’s Cottage
Dinosaur Museum
The Bakery
Artistic Play:
Triangle Duck
Rectangle Giraffe
Block Play:
Tower Delivery
Week 1 Day 1: Shapes Around The Room
Week 1 Day 2: Bug a Boo
Week 1 Day 3: Spider Shapes
Week 1 Day 4: Under the Haystack
Week 2 Day 1: The Scarecrow
Week 2 Day 2: Shape Walk
Week 2 Day 3: Shape Bingo
Week 2 Day 4: Shape Memory
Week 2 Day 5: 3d Match Up
Week 3 Day 1: Shape Graph
Week 3 Day 2: Touch a Shape
Week 3 Day 3: My Shape Me
Week 3 Day 4: Hiss
Week 3 Day 5: Shape Puzzles
Geometry Workpages:
X The Shape:
Drawing Shapes
Counting and Cardinality can be found here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Unit-1-Counting-and-Cardinality-3332906
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• Math Unit 1: Counting and Cardinality
• Place Value: Conquering Early Math Concepts
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