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
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Up, Down, Left, Right |
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In front, Behind, Beside |
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Horizontal, Vertical |
- To remember horizontal think of horizon
- Horizontal remember laying down or sleeping
- Vertical remember standing or awake.
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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
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First, Second, Third |
- Order blocks/objects into categories: i.e. big,
bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallest etc.
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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.
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Leslie Dickie, Melanie Johnston, Dorothy Pienkow |