Every morning we break in to two groups - Preschool and PreK. Our Preschoolers (the 3s and young 4s) have been focusing on classifying things, color sorting, patterns, measuring, and sizes: small, medium, large, and the same/equal. These are excellent pre-math concepts that are developmentally appropriate at this age while the older children work on letters and numbers.
All the preschoolers got a bowl of different colored pattern blocks and were asked to sort them by color.
As our friends were sorting the colors they started to attach the colored blocks together.
After they attached all of the colored blocks together, the children wanted to put the colors in rainbow order. Maroon was a new word/color that the children added to their vocabulary and decided it was more brown than red. So they put it near the end of the colors instead of next to red in the rainbow. We also talk about relations - what color is in between light blue and yellow? GREEN! What color is next to red? ORANGE! These positional/spatial vocabulary words are also important pre-math skills.
What color is the longest? BLACK! Hmmm.... lets try again. When asked what can we do to make it easier to tell which color is the longest? G said, "Let's put them in order from biggest to smallest!" So they did.
And then when asked what color is the longest? They shouted RED....Not Black. and what color is the shortest? GREEN. The children even realized there were two that were the same size. White and Brown. D said, "They look like rainbow stairs." "The blues are right next to each other," stated S.
Every moment is a learning moment at Creative Minds!
Hugs,
Teacher Kristina
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