Grade 1 Month 9 The Wonder of Shapes
SKU:
g1m9
CA$44.00
CA$44.00
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In this unit, your child will consider shapes and their attributes. Counting will remain a focus and will support the work of organizing these shapes. Students will link their work with shapes to the beginning of working with graphs to collect data about things in nature.
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This purchase is for a digital download (PDF) of 1 month of curriculum and includes access to our members-only area with supporting documents, videos, resources and community for one month.
Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Language Arts: Concept: Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words.
Connection: Your child will hear stories each day and will have opportunities to tell stories of their own creation as well. They will create a portfolio of images and words during the unit.
Math: Concept 1: Objects and shapes have attributes that can be described, measured, and compared. Connection: This unit will focus on shapes in your child’s environment and how these can be described, measured and compared.
Concept 2: Concrete graphs help us to compare and interpret data and show one-to-one correspondence. Connection: Your child will collect data about the shapes they find around them. This data will provide material for practicing the use of pictorial graphs.
Science: Concept: Matter is useful because of its properties.
Connection: The specific properties of matter you’ll look at will be shape. You’ll also touch on the specific properties including the difference between solid, liquid and gas.
Connection: Your child will hear stories each day and will have opportunities to tell stories of their own creation as well. They will create a portfolio of images and words during the unit.
Math: Concept 1: Objects and shapes have attributes that can be described, measured, and compared. Connection: This unit will focus on shapes in your child’s environment and how these can be described, measured and compared.
Concept 2: Concrete graphs help us to compare and interpret data and show one-to-one correspondence. Connection: Your child will collect data about the shapes they find around them. This data will provide material for practicing the use of pictorial graphs.
Science: Concept: Matter is useful because of its properties.
Connection: The specific properties of matter you’ll look at will be shape. You’ll also touch on the specific properties including the difference between solid, liquid and gas.
Curriculum Overview
The Wonder of Shapes is sure to get you outside as you and your child observe what is happening in nature. You’ll have a look at attributes such as shape and other properties of matter, around you in nature. You’ll certainly bring in the obvious shapes of square and circle etc. but you’ll observe the 3D aspects of items around you and compare them to the more straightforward shapes. Working with shapes will be the underlying study while your daily activity will be based outside as much as possible as you explore your neighbourhood. This unit will blend seamlessly into Month 10 as you consider animal habitats. Stories for this unit are available as picture books from your local library and are linked in lesson plans as online stories and audio books as well. For this unit we have chosen the simple stories of Danial Errico. The stories in this collection address social emotional learning and offer great images for linking to shape.
Parent Preparation
This unit is best supported outside. If you are able to be outside this month, begin by thinking about how you will incorporate this into your lesson time routine. Perhaps you begin your opening verse once shoes and pack are on? Or maybe you don’t go outside until after the opening activities? Find what works for you. During this unit you will approach some chemistry topics such as properties of matter; remember that for your child at this stage of their development we will stay in the simple living pictures of the imagination. We won’t bring the details of chemical reaction to your child’s thinking until much later. For now, we will keep things simple. That goes for measurement as well. For this unit we will generalize, and in the next couple of years you will get more and more specific about measurement.