Sensor 35. Colored Bead Bars
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35. COLORED BEAD BARS


MATERIAL:

A box with 5 sets of colored bead bars: red, green, pink, yellow, light blue, purple, white, brown, and dark blue.

PRESENTATION:

1. Bring the materials to the rug.

2. Tell the child that "I am going to show you how to do with the colored bead bars".

3. Begin to take bars out and put them together pair by pair.

4. Ask the child to pair them and you go.(depends on child's age, you may let him sort by himself or help him to do so)

5. After the child finish the sorting activity, you begin to build a triangle by using the bars with different number beads.

6. Ask the child to build the other four triangles.

7. After the child finish this activity, ask the child goes to the Geometric Cabinet and take a pentagon as well as bring it back to the rug.

8. Tell the child that "I am going to show you something".

9. Put the pentagon on the middle of the rug and begin to put the color bars on the edge of the pentagon.

10. Ask the child help to put the bars on the edge of the pentagon until finish a star.

11. Take out the pentagon.

12. Let the child do it alone.

POINT OF INTEREST:

The moment of completing the star.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

Visual disharmony.

DIRECT AIM:

Development of visual discrimination of size, color, and form.

INDIRECT AIM:

Preparation for mathematics.

AGE:

3-1/2 years.

LANGUAGE:

The numbers which correspond to each bead bar.

NOTE:

It can be both in sensory and math areas.


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