Five sheets to clip to a clipboard and take outside. Page 1 is a nature count: children look for leaves, pebbles, sticks, flowers and pinecones, make a tally mark for each one they find, and write how many; the last row is for a find of their own. Page 2 is a shape hunt: find something round, something with corners, a straight line and a curve, and draw each one. Page 3 asks children to find things shorter and longer than their hand, then their shoe, and draw each in the right box; a small picture of a stick beside a hand or shoe shows which box is which. Page 4 is about patterns in nature: draw a pattern you see, color a row of leaves in a pattern, and lay out a pattern with things you find. Page 5 is for the collection children bring back: sort it into two groups, name each group, count them, draw a star by the group with more, and say what you noticed.
Take the class outside with clipboards, pencils and a basket for treasures, one sheet at a time. Before you go, ask what children think they will find; afterwards, gather in a circle and compare. Who found the most pebbles? Did anyone find a curve no one else saw? Write children's words in the "I noticed" space or beside a photo of their finds: the sheets become documentation of their thinking. The collection page works on a table back inside, with the real objects sorted into the circles.
Take a sheet on a walk around the block, to the park or into the garden. Let your child lead: what do they want to count, and what shapes do they see? Hold up a leaf next to their hand: is it shorter or longer? Bring a few treasures home and sort them together on the collection page, then talk about other ways to sort the same things.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Reggio-inspired math sheets to take outside on a clipboard, for counting, shapes, length, patterns and sorting in the real world. Children tally what they find, draw the shapes and patterns they see, compare things with their own hand and shoe, and sort their collection into groups they name.
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