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April 7, 2012
Sticky Shape Mat
A fun way to practice building and identifying shapes with your children! Get ready to get sticky!
- Straws
- Con-Tact paper
- Posterboard
- Markers
- Prep: Draw shapes on a piece of posterboard, using the lengths of straws as a guideline. Cover the posterboard with con-tact paper, sticky-side-up.
- Have the children identify the shapes on your board during Circle Time.
- Provide the Sticky Shape Mat at your Math Center, along with your straws.
- Using the straws, encourage the children to build the shapes on the Sticky Shape Mat.
- Questions to ask: How many straws did it take to build a [square]? Which shape was the easiest to build? Which one was the hardest? You can add a circle/oval, and provide yarn for the children to use.
- Extension: Give the children construction paper, glue and extra straws and have them create their own shapes.
OBJECTIVES (Based on the NYS Pre-Kindgergarten Standards)
- Children will demonstrate understanding of gometric and spatial relations.
- Child points to square, triangle, rectangle, circle, when asked.
- Child names: square, triangle, rectangle, circle.
- Child builds, compares, and contrasts two and three dimensional shapea
- Child describes whether or not two shapes are the same
Children will demonstrate an understanding of numbers, ways to represent numbers, relationships among numbers and the number system.
- Child is able to count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects.
- Child counts a set of objects and recognizes that the lst counting word tells “how many”.