Carrying out activities related to matching and
conservation and recording observations:
Analysis of observations and conclusions related
to matching and conservation:
1. Solid Shapes
Children are concerned from babyhood with feeling, observing and arranging solid shapes. They are interested in properties of solid shapes long before they are ready to consider plane shapes. Free play and building with solids, and junk modelling, involve children in stacking and packing shapes, seeing how they fit or do not fit together , how the same box can represent either the body of a lorry or a tower , how the same cylinder can represent either a wheel or a ship’s funnel, and so on.
These activities and other more structured matching activities can be used to introduce the concepts and words for ‘round’, ‘flat’, ‘face’, ‘edge’, ‘straight’, ‘curved’, ‘corner . Objects that roll have around part. Objects that stand firmly have a flat part, and that flat part is called a face.
(We could draw a human face on it.) A face is surrounded by edges that can be seen and felt. They may be straight or curved.
Edges meet each other at corners.
The language introduced above can be reinforced by a matching game of the following nature. For the game, you need two identical sets of solid shapes, one set on display , the other in a box hidden from view
The teacher picks one shape from the box and gives it to a
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