Geometry and Spatial Sense

1. Communication Items:

• Place your Numbers and Operations lesson in your folder – Attach Rubric
• 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. Midterm Study Guide

• The midterm will include viewing a photo of a child engaged in “play”. From your interpretation of the photo, you will plan a broad goal, specific objective, and related activity, including open-ended questions, based on one NCTM content area strand.
• You will need to know the NCTM strands and the components. (15 points)
• You will identify “math” in classroom routines, transitions, and everyday activities. (10 points)