Early Childhood Education: Teaching Activities for Geometry Shapes Identification

Running Head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 0
Early Childhood Education
Teaching activities
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9/7/2018

Early childhood education 1
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
Curriculum: Early Childhood Education
Outcome: Children will be able to Recognize and describe the features of fundamental
mathematical geometry.
Point: Encourage children to create geometry shapes as they draw on paper by identifying
them
Sub point: when children acquire knowledge about 2-D shapes, add 3-D shapes in the
activity to increase involvedness and prolong the learning.
TEACHING PURPOSE
As per the fact that young children acquire best through their young minds, so they
require many hands-on activities those combine movement and playtime. As they, experience
intense development occurring in their gross motor skills, as well as language using, thinking,
and social skills. Therefore, we early childhood teachers have an essential role in assisting
children in developing outlines of learning and behaviour that will be attached to them
throughout their lives (Teach Make a Difference, 2018). By doing this STEAM (referred as
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) activity of ‘creative investigation in early
mathematics’, we will try to enhance their identification and logical skills.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
Activity Name: Pre-school Geometry shapes identification
For this activity, children need to prepare basics of geometrical shapes of mathematics at
home with the help of their guardians. This is an early childhood math activity, which will
teach geometry and three-dimensional sense (Gryphon House, 2018).
 Children will recognize and describe the main features of a square, circle, rectangle,
oval, hexagon, and triangle in Two-dimensions initially.
 After that, children will identify how these shapes are alike and different.
 As an extension, when the children will get familiar with 2-D shapes, then we will
add 3-D shapes to the activity to increase involvedness and prolong the learning.