By the end of this unit, children will be able to:
- recognize and describe the solid shapes they see in their environment, such as the shapes of toys, household items, and natural objects.
- use solid shapes to create representations of objects and ideas, such as using a cylinder to represent a tree trunk or a cone to represent a party hat.
- demonstrate an understanding of 3D shapes (sphere, cube, cone, cylinder) by recognizing them in everyday objects and distinguishing their characteristics.
Curriculum Alignment:
- Development Matters − Reception − Select, rotate and manipulate shapes to develop spatial reasoning skills.
- Birth to 5 Matters − Range 6 − Investigates turning and flipping objects in order to make shapes fit and create models; predicting and visualising how they will look (spatial reasoning)