Students look through and discuss the no-text book Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins. In it, a man and a woman use the same set of building blocks to transform a house into a fire engine, then a boat, a truck, and back to a house. The students tell the story and then draw pictures to show how the blocks changed from one object to another. Students investigate the shapes that they can see when they place a mirror on a square pattern block. Develop the concepts of coordinates and paths, using maps, tables, and grids.
Students use maps of their community to find various ways to get from school to the park.
They use letters and numbers to describe the location of the school and that of the park. Students create a map based on the familiar story of The Little Gingerbread Man , showing where each of the people in the story lives. Students describe how to get from one point in the school to another and try to follow each others' directions. Understand the variety of ways in which geometric shapes and objects can be measured. In connection with a unit on dinosaurs in science, students discuss the different ways in which the size of dinosaurs can be described.