Ordering, Seriation, and patterning

Ordering

• A higher level of comparing
• Foundation for learning measurement
• Comparing more than 2 things or groups

Seriation

• Piaget's term for ordering
• Development starts in the sensorimotor stage (birth-2yrs.) 
• Nesting Toys
• Involves seeing a pattern that follows continuously in equal increments
• What was your daily routine when you were 4 or 5?

Cross curriculum

• Collages
• Goldilocks and the 3 bears
• Life cycles
• Movement

Measurement:

measurement

• Recognizing the attributes of length, volume and weight
• Comparing objects according to these attributes
• Develops across 5 stages during Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete de  

Stage 1: sensorimotor-early preoperational)

Stage 2(preoperational):

Stage 3: (late preoperational & early concrete)

Stage 4: (Concrete)

Stage 5: (concrete)

Cross curriculum

• Sand and Water Table
• Dramatic Play
• Books: How Big is a Foot

Measurement

Time

• 3 kinds of time a child learns:
• personal experience
• social activity
• culture

Personal experience in time

• A child has his own past, present & future. References time according to I
• Past: "Last night" can refer to any part of the past 
• Present & Future: Blurred together or near future references "After my nap"
• Difficult to imagine adults as kids or his self not exsisting

Social Activity in Time

• Children thrive on routine and order
• Sequence of predictable events
• Informal learning: Daily Schedule

Cultural Time

• Fixed clocks and calendars
• Type of time we use and understand
• This is a concept learned during the concrete stage 
• Time language can be learned during the earlier stages

Time words

• General-time, age
• Specific-morning, afternoon, evening, night, day, noon
• Relational-`soon, yesterday, early, late, a long time ago, once upon a time
• Duration- Clock, watch, days of the week, months, seasons,year
• Special days- birthdays, Christmas, passover, weekend, school day

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