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PLEASE NOTE!
When delivered, our products are neither cut nor laminated. The accessories, like perspex boxes, file caskets and so on, that are sometimes shown in the catalogue, were only taken to demonstrate a possible use of our items. They are not part of the item itself and not included.
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Recommended Age(s):
4-6 years
Preparing the Material:
All of the cards are meant to be laminated (recommended laminate thickness: 90-125 micron).
The individual cards need to be cut out.
NOTE: The 5 sides with the 10 areas of the parts of the pink tower and brown stairs must only be cut in half. This will give you 20 A5 index cards with areas.
Sides not to be laminated: none
Sides or cards to be bound into a booklet: none
Teaching Content:
Vocabulary building through the introduction of the terms: small, big, smaller, bigger, smallest, biggest, the smallest, the biggest, smaller than, bigger than, thick, thin, thicker, thinner, thickest, thinnest, the thickest, the thinnest, thicker than, thinner than.
Sequencing, one to one correspondence, relating 3-D sequences to 2-D representations.
Possible Applications:
Possible application in connection with topics or projects such as: geometry, geometric solids, adjectives, generating sequences, etc.
Individual work, pair work, small group work
The material is also suitable to use with presentations with the Pink Tower and the Brown Stairs.
Before You Begin:
To work with this material, the children require:
a floor mat, possibly also a camera (see below)
How to Use:
With the word cards and the wooden blocks, terms such as: small, smaller, the smallest, the biggest cube, etc. can be introduced and learnt. The parts of the tower/stairs can be matched with the number cards in both ascending and descending order. New sequences can be invented with the tower, the stairs, or both combined. They can then be recorded with the number cards.
Control of Error:
The material enables the children to check their own progress as they work.
Additional Information:
Photos can be taken of the sequences created by the children, and can then be used to make new cards.
Suggestion: The photo with the new tower/stairs arrangement can be shown on one side of the index card with the matching number sequence on the other.
For a more abstract exercise, the wooden blocks can be replaced by the picture cards (the gift and the book). The loose area cards and the A5 index cards can also be used in this way. The loose cards can be matched up with the wooden blocks, or the blocks can be placed on the A5 cards. |
