Math

 

In the area of Math we will be finishing up a few things with two-dimensional shapes and then moving on to three-dimensional figures. I have made a couple of games to assist them with the conclusion of the two dimensional shape unit. The children will have an opportunity to create a shape creature and then name the shapes they have used and how many of each shape they included in their shape creature.

 

The expectation is the children will build three-dimensional structures using a variety of materials and begin to recognize the three dimensional figures their structure containers. This is where the use of the new small colour blocks will be very effective because they are made up of cones, cubes rectangular prisms, cylinders and square based prisms. The children will be introduced to the names of the three-dimensional figures, but more importantly to the number of sides (edges), corners (vertices), and faces each of the three-dimensional figures has.