Shapes! by Caroline Usher

Goal CD-11: Children compare, sort, group, organize, and measure objects and create patterns in their everyday environment

cmu4831 — 2024-03-11 22:36:41 UTC

Goal CD-12: Children identify and use common shapes and concepts about position during play and other activities

Goal LDC-5- Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events

Goal LDC-7: Children respond to and use a growing vocabulary

cmu4831 — 2024-03-11 22:37:24 UTC

Goal LDC-2: Children participate in conversations with peers and adults in one-on-one, small, and larger group interactions

Goal LDC-3: Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

Plastic Pattern blocks

cmu4831 — 2024-03-12 19:18:28 UTC

The shapes can be used for learning purposes like how each shape is different such as a box has 4 pointy corners while a triangle only has 3. The children can also learn how to put different shapes together to make something like a flower and more

Glue and Construction Paper

cmu4831 — 2024-03-12 19:25:38 UTC

construction paper has many uses for children, such as paper collages, drawing, and painting

Playdough

cmu4831 — 2024-03-12 19:34:56 UTC

Playdough can be used in many ways for children. Playdough allows the children's creativity to run wild

Everyday items

cmu4831 — 2024-03-12 19:57:53 UTC

Everyday objects will allow children to be able to pick out all the different shapes that in the things we see, use, eat, have in our everyday life. Using everyday objects will allow for the children to have open ending thoughts and questions

concepts

cmu4831 — 2024-03-12 20:22:18 UTC

creativity
flexibility
imagination
shapes
texture
lines
curves

Quality Questions

cmu4831 — 2024-03-12 20:25:41 UTC

How are these shapes different?
How can these shapes be used together
What is unique about each of the shapes?
Where do we see shapes in our everyday lives?

Shape coloring sheet

cmu4831 — 2024-03-12 23:48:51 UTC

These shape coloring sheets will allows children to be able to identify and organize visual information. This will allows them to tune into their surroundings and start to see the connects between objects.

Activity 1

cmu4831 — 2024-03-17 14:11:17 UTC

In this activity children will learn how to describe and identify the shapes. Children will be able to discuss with their classmates about what they see and think about each shape.

Activity 2

cmu4831 — 2024-03-17 14:13:37 UTC

In this activity children will be able to start to identify the shapes that surround them in their everyday life. Children can ask for help/ get information if they can't identify the shape.

Activity 3

cmu4831 — 2024-03-17 14:28:09 UTC

This activity allows childrens imagination and creativity run wild. They will learn how different shapes can be put together to create something else.