Infants and toddlers/twos are provided varied opportunities and materials to
- use language, gestures, and materials to convey mathematical concepts such as more and less and big and small.
- see and touch different shapes, sizes, colors, and patterns.
- build number awareness, using objects in the environment.
- read books that include counting and shapes.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to build understanding of numbers, number names, and their relationship to object quantities and to symbols.
The children play different types of counting games using the fruit counters. During are duck investigation we created a count-down to the arrival of the baby ducks.
Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to categorize by one or two attributes such as shape, size, and color.
During circle-time we often review shapes and colors using poems or songs.
Children are provided varied opportunities and materials that help them understand the concept of measurement by using standard and non-standard units of measurement.
During cooking activities children are provided with many opportunities to use measuring cups, tablespoons and other measuring tools.
Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to understand basic concepts of geometry by, for example, naming and recognizing two- and three-dimensional shapes and recognizing how figures are composed of different shapes.
The children are provided with a lot of table top toys that help them with basic concepts of geometry. The teaching staff often helps the children construct various shapes using blocks.
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Children are provided varied opportunities to build an understanding of time in the context of their lives, schedules, and routines.
During circle time every morning, the teaching staff goes over the classroom schedule and some routines. We also discuss the weather.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials that help them recognize and name repeating patterns.
Children enjoy using the colored counting blocks to create repeating patterns.