Sensor 18. Color Box No.2
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SENSORIAL-MOTOR ALBUM

18. COLOR BOX NO.2


MATERIAL:

A box with 22 color tablets: two red, two blue, two yellow, two orange, two green, two purple, two white, two black, two pink, two gray, two brown.

PRESENTATION:

1. Open the box.

2. Take all tablets out and put them randomly on the rug.

3. Use the rug in a horizontal way to set up the tablets.

4. Choose one tablet and put it on the left top of the rug.

5. Find a matching one and put it next to the previous one.

6. After you do 2 or 3 sets of them, you go and let the child do it until all of them match.

7. Ask the child if he know the color or not.

8. Pick up the color which the child does know and put them away from the matching group.

9. Give the child three period lessons for the names of the color he does not know.

10. Open the box and put the box top of the lid, them put all tablets into the box.

POINT OF INTEREST:

The moment in which the pairs are matched.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

Visual disharmony.

DIRECT AIM:

Visual discrimination of color.

INDIRECT AIM:

Preparation for art.

AGE:

3 years.

LANGUAGE:

The names of the colors: red, blue, yellow, orange, green, purple, white, black, pink, gray, brown.


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