Welcome!

• Please take:– a copy of my presentation so that you

can take notes.– a handout of early learning math

concepts.– a piece of colored paper.

KindergartenReadinessWorkshopBreak Out Session

Presented By: Tiffany PhilyawJerry Lee Faine Pre-KDothan City Schools

A Little About Me

Andalusia , AL

Troy University

More Than Four Shapes

PlayingAnd

ReasoningWith

Geometry

Juanita Copley, Ph.D.

Objectives

•Learn developmentally appropriate math standards and activities for

preschoolers•Give you some new ideas for math

games and activities•Help you understand and enjoy a new way to think about the relationship of

math and the young child

The Child is the Focus

Connect the childto each learning

activity.

Geometry? Yes!

The Child Teaches

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

-John Cotton Dana

Intentional

• In high quality mathematics education for 3-6 year-old children, teachers and other key professional should…

• Actively introduce mathematical concepts, methods, and language through a range of appropriate experiences and teaching strategies.

Appropriate and Playful

• Build on children’s experience and knowledge

• Base mathematics curriculum and teaching practices on knowledge of

children's development• Provide for children’s deep and

sustained interaction• Provide ample time, materials, and

teacher support for play

What is Appropriate Geometry for Young Children?

• Spatial Orientation• Spatial Visualization• Shapes– 3-Dimensional Shapes– Composing and Decomposing 2 and 3-

Dimensional Shapes– Transformations

Let’s Get Together!

Find your matching color station, and listen for

directions.LET’S HAVE FUN!!!

Directions

•Each station has a piece of paper labeled with a teaching objective and corresponding materials.

•Find your matching color station•Assign a “Scribe” to record and present.

•Come up with as many games and activities as you can with your group, and record them on

your paper.•You have 5 minutes!

•BE CREATIVE!

Let’s Get Started

1. Now, everyone STAND UP!2. And, the scribe may SIT BACK DOWN! 3. The scribe is going to stay at that station and

review with the next group what was added to the list.

4. Everyone else will rotate.5. This time you will delegate a new “scribe.”6. The next group then continues to add more

ideas.7. We will repeat this process until we rotate

around to all of the math concepts.

Use what you have!

All of thematerials providedin the stations are available in your

classrooms!

What is appropriate Geometry for young children?

•Spatial Orientation•Spatial Visualization•Shapes• 3-Dimensional and 2-Dimensional•Composing and Decomposing 2 and 3-Dimensional Shapes•Transformations

Spatial Orientation

•Knowing where you are and how to get around in

the world•Spatial words•Game Ideas

Math Books

A Better Way to Teach Shape

LineAngle

TriangleSquare

RectanglePentagonHexagonHectagonOctagon

Look, Make, and Fix

Representing Structures

•Take a picture of blocks built a certain way and have them for students to create.•Wedgits/Cards•This visualization combines orientation and positional words.•Use in large group with a controlled number of blocks.

Talk about 3-D Shapes

•“Fat Shapes”- “Mine looks like a…but I call them…”• Balls- Spheres• Boxes- Rectangular Prisms• Cans- Cylinders

Activities

•Graph: Circle/Not a Circle•Shape hunt in magazines•Shape hunt around school•Shape hunt in classroom•Create with straws and pipe cleaners•Hula hoop attribute games•Rectangle quilt•Tangrams•Pattern blocks

Spacial Visualization and Imagery

• Drawing and Representing what you see or feel.

• Remembering what you see and then representing the shapes and orientation.

• Can be developed in preschool.• Children are asked to “think” of a shape

then “draw” or “make” what they “see”

What shapes can you make with four triangles?

Activity

Measurement

We can define it, but we have a poor concept of it!

NOT JUST TEDDY BEARS!

Measurement

Now You Explore More Activities

Search online for these key words for more activities like you saw today:

-subitizing-composing and decomposing

numbers-measurement

***REMEMBER- CHILD FOCUSED AND ENGAGING FOR OUR CLASS

INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT ***

Let’s Move!

Write down oneidea that you can

utilize in your classroom.

What did you learn?

Write down oneidea that you can

utilize in your classroom.

Resources

Teachers Pay TeachersCreative Curriculum Math Book

PreKinders and Pre-K PagesMy Cute Graphics

Recommended Math Books and Music List

Also check out my website for online links to math games, parent resources, and tons of educator

resources for the classroom!faine.al.dce.schoolinsites.com/philyaw