Monday, March 19, 2012

Map making in K0. We used shapes and positional language.


Maddi and Charlotte are working with Mrs Burrough. They have made a key to help them read their map.
Charlie and Charlie are adding details to their map.

Working together.



Charlie is helping his group make a map using shapes to represent different places. They used squares to represent their houses.


Maddi is sharing her learning with a group.

Putting roads on a map.





Charlie has helped his group make a map that will help them all use the language of shape and position.

Busy working alongside each other.
Maddi is showing the teacher what she is doing.


Children enjoying map making.




Charlie helped his group make a map. He was good at sharing his learning.

Everyone was involved. Tamish and Oskar are busy helping to make their group map.

 Maddi is adding a pool to her map using blue paper to represent water.

Look at this finished map. You can see shapes  that represent houses, roads and green spaces for playing. Once we had finishe making the maps we gave instructions to others using directions and included positional language too.
Mrs Burrough came into our class and worked with 4 children.
  • They followed instructions
  • They made a map
  • First they drew their own house
  • Squares represented houses
  • Then we drew roads
  • Hexagons represented a school
  • Trapeziums were for shops
  • Blue paper showed water
  • Green paper represented places to play
When the map was made we had to use postional language to tell each other how we could get to different places. We had to listen carefully.


The next day Maddi, Charlie, Charlie and Charlotte had to share their learning with a group of children. What great teachers they were. The maps are now used in our classroom at choosing time.

1 comment:

  1. Great maps k0 they look great

    from Rebecca and Amy and Whanau Whitu

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