DIRECTION - POSITION

ACTIVITY

North, South, East, West

  • Label the 4 walls of classroom with N,S,E,W.
  • Have children identify things on the walls around the directions.
  • Introduce compasses, map reading
  • Sunrises in east, sunsets in west
  • To remember N,S,E,W say this rhyme NEVER EAT SHREDDED WHEAT

Up, Down, Left, Right

  • Play Simon Says

In front, Behind, Beside

  • Sing Hockey Pokey Song

Horizontal, Vertical

  • To remember horizontal think of horizon
  • Horizontal remember laying down or sleeping
  • Vertical remember standing or awake.

Foreground, middle ground, background

  • Hide an object and have kids find it by here, there, near, far, close - indicating if they are hot, cold or warm. Hot is near the object, cold is far, warm is in the middle
  • Look at objects in the room or outside that are near or far and discuss what they see a class

First, Second, Third

  • Order blocks/objects into categories: i.e. big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallest etc.

Beginning, Middle, End

  • Tell stories and talk about beginning, middle and end of the stories
  • Give children the beginning of a story, get them to write the middle and end or give them the end and write beginning and middle.

Leslie Dickie, Melanie Johnston, Dorothy Pienkow