50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Shape and Pattern
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2019
64 pages
978-1-4729-6456-4 (ISBN)
Description
The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting.
50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Shape and Pattern features activities and games filled with rich contexts for learning and discussion, as well as fun opportunities for consolidation and problem-solving.
Alison Hutchison draws on her wealth of experience to present ideas in line with the Early Learning Goals for investigating shape and pattern in the world around us. She focuses on helping young children to make connections and develop language, knowledge and understanding of shape and pattern. Whether children build with fabric blocks to create patterns or explore symmetry while playing with natural materials, the easy-to-prepare activities in this book facilitate engaging learning opportunities for children's ideas and interests to be explored.
50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Shape and Pattern features activities and games filled with rich contexts for learning and discussion, as well as fun opportunities for consolidation and problem-solving.
Alison Hutchison draws on her wealth of experience to present ideas in line with the Early Learning Goals for investigating shape and pattern in the world around us. She focuses on helping young children to make connections and develop language, knowledge and understanding of shape and pattern. Whether children build with fabric blocks to create patterns or explore symmetry while playing with natural materials, the easy-to-prepare activities in this book facilitate engaging learning opportunities for children's ideas and interests to be explored.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-6456-4 (9781472964564)
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Alison Hutchison | Alistair Bryce-Clegg
50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Shape and Pattern
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10/2019
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Persons
Alison Hutchison has worked in a variety of Early Years settings during her 19 years of teaching, and plans teaching and learning for 0-7 year olds. She has held positions with a local authority to devise and deliver training to up-skill practitioners in aspects of Early Years teaching. Within her current role, Alison worked with practitioners and parents across the school to develop a maths home learning library. This included 25 take-home games and activities for each age and stage in the school with resources and instructions, as well as ideas for further development.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 2D shape
- Puzzle pieces
- Straight lines
- Play scenes
- Who am I?
- Make me
- Dough shapes
- Icing pens
- Magnetic makes
- Shape reveal
- Copy me
- Chalk outlines
- 3D shape
- Natural object sort
- Painting around
- Sculpt
- Shape sort challenge
- Print a picture
- Sides, edges and corners
- Wrap it up
- Shape in the wider world
- The shapes of things
- Self-portraits
- What shape is my body?
- Spider's web
- Buildings of the world
- Fruit and vegetable prints
- Cloud spotting
- Mirror play
- Repeating and symmetrical pattern
- Loose parts
- Dinosaur footprints
- Bunting
- Towers
- Pairs
- Number patterns
- Penguin parade
- Patchwork picnic
- Portrait patterns
- Mandalas
- DIY stampers
- Autumn leaves
- Snakes
- Pattern matching blocks
- Finger prints
- DIY scrapers
- Dice patterns
- Woolly worms
- Finger patterns
- Pattern in the wider world
- Where am I?
- Animal patterns
- Snail trails
- Sock sort
- Nuts and bolts
