Lessons dealing with the calendar, seasons, yearly cycles and children's birthdays can focus on the graph. Use valentine conversation hearts to graph by color. Play 20 questions to develop attribute awareness. This lesson could be started with the reading of The Shapes Game by Paul Rogers or Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban. Discuss the various attributes that have been used for sorting and classifying.
Children describe what they find and draw it on paper.
When applicable, texture rubbings could be taken. Papers are saved from each walk to make an attribute book. 5. As each page is added, compare to previous pages. From Mathematics Their Way , p. 72 5. Measurement Students use measurement in both metric and English measure to provide a major link between abstract mathematics and the real world in order to describe and compare objects and data.