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Geometry and Spatial Sense (Webcast #3) Puppy Search Lesson
 

Watch as children identify shape clues and follow arrows to help locate puppy in a picture. Teaching teams and parents can use this exercise to enhance children's reading skills and assess their comprehension. Children demonstrate reading comprehension and identify clues and geometric shapes when locating the hidden puppy.

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Geometry and Spatial Sense (Webcast #3) Puppy Search Lesson


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Setting:  whole class – near the end of the year

What happened before the lesson?  |   What's happening during the lesson?  |  What will I do after the lesson?


What happened before the lesson?

Where did the idea come from? 

  • “Where’s the Bunny?,” pages 81-83 in Showcasing Mathematics for the Young Child.  
  • “Treasure Map,” page 36, Day Four, in TEXTEAMS Mathematics Institute, Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten

What had the children learned BEFORE this lesson? 
The children had been using position words and identified shapes in their environment. 

What did you plan to do AFTER this lesson?
We continued to write maps to find objects. Normally, the maps had three clues and they involved shapes and positions.

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What's happening during the lesson?


Objective: Children will find a puppy using three position and shape clues.

Introduction:
Read Eric Carle’s Birthday Message and discuss the last page containing the map and clues.

Procedure:

  1. Read the first clue together identifying the shape symbols and the arrows. 
  2. Children hunt for the new clue card using the first clue.
  3. Children continue the hunt until the puppy is found. 
  4. The map is read several times together and the clue search is retraced. 

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What will I do after the lesson?

What would you do differently if you taught it again?
This is a lesson that should be taught in small groups. I would still read the book to the whole class but then I would have at least four different puppets hiding with four different sets of clues. (This would probably be done on different days.) Everyone wanted a chance to find the puppy and it was not appropriate in a large group. 

How would you describe the teaching that occurred using the words on the Continuum of Teaching Behaviors?
I primarily was a CO-CONSTRUCTOR in this lesson.

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Geometry and Spatial Sense (Webcast #3) Puppy Search Lesson. HHS/ACF/OHS. 2008. English. Streaming Video. 00:02:53.

Last Reviewed: February 2012