Week 9: Geometry Strand

Geometry and Spatial Sense

1.

Communication Items:

• Next week you will bring in one child’s literature/story book and share all the math concepts you can find in it.
• Choose a presentation topic (The Outdoors as a Context for Mathematics…Teaching Mathematics Through Musical Activities….Movement, Mathematics, and Learning…)

2. Geometry Strand (attributes of two and three dimensional shapes, composing and decomposing shapes, examples and non-examples, transformations, visualization, position, direction and distance; find and name locations)

3. Geometry Strand – Pre-K activities

• Blocks, blocks, blocks
• Photo example
• Dye-cut silhouettes
• Puppets
• Overhead activities
• Open Shut Them
• Dimensional Objects and Shapes
• Outside Activities

4. Geometry Activity Centers

• Floor Puzzles – critical thinking and spatial awareness activity
• Jenga – focusing on spatial and directional vocabulary
• Symmetry Butterfly – visualizing and creating symmetrical reproductions

5. Young Child Chapter 6 – Geometry and Spatial Sense