Developing Vocabulary

Position

: over, under, down, around, up , next to, behind, between, top, bottom,

in, on, right, left, before, after, first, second, third, last

Comparison

: longer, shorter, heavier, lighter, bigger, smaller greater than, less

than, more, fewer, the same as, equal to, different from, thicker, thinner, nearer,

further, taller

Quantity

: lots, many, few, most, one, two, three

Duration

: second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year

Combination

: put together, in all, altogether, add, collect, put in

Separation

: cut, break, take away, pull out, divide

Geometry:

round, straight, line, curve, triangle, square, circle, cube, cone

What will you do for each investigation/session to highlight vocabulary?

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Word wall

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Class journal

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Picture dictionary

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Personal journal

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Word of the day

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Class letter home at the end of the unit

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Web

Resources:

Tips for the Linguistically Diverse Classroom

Vocabulary Support for Second Language Learners

Growing Mathematical Ideas in Kindergarten (Dacey, 1999)

Math and Literature, Book One (Burns, 1992)

www.mathsolutions.com

– online newsletter under

From the Classroom

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lesson plans for literature

Other Ideas:

Literature Books – Push-Pull, Empty Full

(1972) – Opposites, Billy’s Button

(Accorsi, 1992) – positional language, Bus Stop (Hellen, 1998) – ordinal, What

Comes in 2’s, 3’s, & 4’s (Aker, 1990), Ten Black Dots (Crews, 1986), etc.

Treasure Hunt – using symbols

Games - Simon Says, I Spy – using positional clues

Lining Up – ordinal numbers and terms

Songs

Copycat Activities – one child makes something and keeps it hidden and the

other child has to build it or copy it by listening to the directions of their partner.

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