and these nomenclature cards from Lori at www.montessoriforeveryone.com (pssst! she does great freebies!)
So far, we have worked with the Cube, Rectangular Prism, Pyramid & Sphere. I put them in our 'feely bag' & E has to pick one out (eyes closed!) describe it, & state which solid it is. We have drawn around their bases, rolled them in our salt tray to observe the different markings & tracks they make. We match them to the nomenclature cards (these are really good tools, as they come lots of cards showing 'real life' items for each solid, such as a gift for Cube, etc, etc. A great shape book we have read is Cubes, Cones, Cylinders and Spheres by Tana Hoban. A super picture book, again showing shapes in their real life context.
This week, number day came into its own
Fruit Pastel Math!
We had a ball! What great fun.Making our own solids with cocktail sticks & fruit pastels. E & I worked on the cube together, which she found reletively easy, then the pyramid took some thinking. She really wanted to put three vertices on the top, which made a triangular prism, not a pyramid. Frustrating! But, then, she got it! What a wonderful momment for a proud mummy! She went on to make another pyramid & another cube, then a rectangular prism. *all by herself* :)
who said maths couldnt be fun?
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