A Line Unit for your Little Mathematicians

Hey Everyone!

Are you looking for a unit for your littlest Mathematicians? Well here is the unit for you! We developed this as a well-rounded unit that incorporates motor skills, math language and important math concepts that will serve as important building blocks for your little math learners!

Purpose of the "Line Investigation" Unit

• to practice looking closely and notice details
• to practice describing figures/objects with precise language (ex. colors, sizes, straight vs. wavy vs. zigzag, etc.)
• to develop motor skills, improve handwriting and representational drawings
• to support math understandings about early geometry: lines, space, shapes
• to integrate skills across content areas

PART I:

BIG IDEAS:

*Dots can have different uses. (Ten frame, periods, dice, lowercase i and j, etc..).

*Dots can be different sizes and colors.

Read Alouds:

The Dot

Press Here

Ten Black Dots

Activities:

dot dice games

Dot Sticker Staircase (Click!)

dot painting with cotton swabs

dot-a-dot paint markers

PART II:

BIG IDEA:

*A line is the pathway of a point with direction and distance (length). We can connect dots with lines.

Videos:

A Line is Dot That Went for a Walk (Click!)

Marble Painting (Click!)

Activities:

marble painting

Dot-to-Dot

PART III

BIG IDEAS:

Lines have characteristics that can be described and named (ex. horizontal, vertical, diagonal)

Lines have relationships in space with other lines. (ex. connect, cross/intersect; parallel vs. non-parallel)

There are different kinds of lines (ex. curved, wavy, zigzag, sprial, etc.)

Read Alouds:

The Line

A Line Can Be

Videos:

Lines that Wiggle (Click!)

The Line Movie (Click!)

The Line Song (Click!)

Line Chart

Lines Sorting Mats (Click!)

PART IV:

BIG IDEAS:

*Lines can bend and curve, and eventually close to make shapes.

*Lines can be put combined to make letters, numbers, shapes, pictures.

     

            

     

We voted on our favorite emergent storybook and used different kinds of lines to create our culminating project! Can you guess which one we chose? :)

We hope that you found this unit useful! Please share with us if you tried it out and if your little learners loved it as much as ours did! Also, feel free to let us know any changes you made or ideas you'd like to share back with us! We would love to hear about your experiences with our line unit! :)

Cheers,

Stefanie and Chrissa