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I am so excited to introduce you to the #toolsforlearning series!! Every Tuesday an awesome team of bloggers will be taking on the challenge of activities with common educational manipulatives! We want learning to be hands-on, interactive and definitely fun!! Follow the #toolsforlearning hashtag on Instagram to see all the amazing activities & share your own using the manipulative of the week! We’re starting off the series with rainbow counters: bears, animals, all things rainbow! Like these Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards.
Materials needed for the Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards:
Paper
Laminating Pouches
Scissors
To Prep: Print the Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards, laminate and cut them apart.
We started by doing an example row. I showed Shiloh how to put the cards in order with large, medium and small. Then she tried.
She is really great at self-correction when it comes to colors, so even though she tried putting the wrong color in her row, she quickly realized that it was wrong and placed it in another row.
Then we worked on matching the cards with the rainbow bear manipulatives.
We tried them horizontally. Then vertically.
And even tried them spread out around the desk. That was harder, so we talked while we worked. “Which picture is the biggest?” “Where does the small bear go?”
It’s really important that kids realize that size doesn’t just apply to pictures on a paper. That’s why the rainbow bear manipulatives are great for this activity. I really like the Thinking Kids Math Bears that we have because they can be sorted with both six different colors and three different sizes. They cost a little bit more than some other brands of rainbow bears, but it has been totally worth it for us.
We have used them for:
Number Cards for Counting to 10
And this awesome Rainbow Bear Preschool Mega Pack!
Need more ideas for using your rainbow bears or rainbow counters? Check these out!!
Graphing with Rainbow Bears from Still Playing School
Rainbow Bears Preschool Letter Cards from Learning 2 Walk
Size Order Rainbow Bear Cards from Life Over C’s
Color and Size Sorting with Rainbow Counters from Line Upon Line Learning
Alphabet Formation Compare Bears from Adventures of Adam
Size and Color Sorting {Learning with Rainbow Bears} from Squiggles and Bubbles
Animal Counters Sensory Bin & Color Sort from Raising Little Superheroes
Color Graphing with Rainbow Bears from Schooltime Snippets
Rainbow Chain Link Color Sort from Sugar Aunts
Rainbow Bears Sensory Bin from Something 2 Offer
Counting More or Less with Farm Animal Rainbow Counters from Stir the Wonder
Rainbow Bears Addition Cards from The Kindergarten Connection
Measuring with Rainbow Bears from Mom Inspired Life
Don’t forget to use #toolsforlearning on Instagram to share your Rainbow Bear & Counter learning activities!!
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Danielle says
So fun! I now feel very compelled to buy the bears in different sizes so I can do activities like this!
Adventures of Adam says
Wow – what amazing printable resources. I shall be passing these on to my teacher friends!
Kristina @ School Time Snippets says
So many fun ways to learn with rainbow colored manipulatives! I, too, love that they created a set with orange!
Victoria says
Printing now-thanks for sharing such a great activity! My daughter will love this!
Kim says
Enjoy!!
Thaleia from Something2Offer says
Your newer bears are so cute. I love that they’ve added orange and purple and little packs on their backs. Your printables look amazing.
Kim says
This is the Carson-Dellosa set. The Learning Resources set is slightly different.