Families Level: Early Grades - Cross-curricular activities

The difference game

You need a set of two-dimensional, geometric shapes that have several differences eg large and small, thick and thin, different colors.

The children match the shapes by putting them into families of, for example, all the blue triangles, small thick circles, all the thin shapes. Extension work involves more specific differences eg 'Find a circle that has only one difference from this one'.

Revisit Rock-a-Bye-Maybe?

The music in the Listening section of this unit had lots of differences. Listen again with the children and ask if they can put hands up when they hear more than one difference eg slower and also quieter.