COUNTERS BABY BEAR 6 COLORS 102-PK

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Use counting bears to teach colors. Children will have fun sorting the counting bears by color and playing games. Math helps– Not only can you practice counting with the bears, it is also a great way to use them as math manipulatives for addition and subtraction practice.

Using Counting Bears During Story Time– Learn how to incorporate counting bears during story time with these free printables. Counting Bears Activities When my kids were little, they loved counting. We would count everything. You name it, we counted it. If your children enjoy counting, they are going to have a lot of fun with these counting bears worksheets and printable activities. After you’ve demonstrated how to tell a few math fact stories, have your child tell you a few! This activity can easily be used with all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division). Bear Counter Pattern Strips for Preschoolers– Turn this pattern strips into a fun and portable game for your preschoolers to use with their counting bears.

Measuring with Bear Counters

Repeating Patterns Worksheets - Shapes and Colours - This resource is another great one to help children practise pattern recognition. I have found that if I can brainstorm and do a bit of internet research, we can use our same old puzzles and manipulatives for longer periods of time without them growing stale.

If you have small kids, you are probably familiar with counting bears. Sometimes they are called rainbow bears, but I’ve always called them counting bears. You may also hear them referred to as sorting bears, color bears, teddy bear counters, colored counting bears, or even plastic counting bears. What are Counting Bears? Ways to Play and Learn with Counting Bears– Lots of fun ideas to teach and play with counting bears. Counting Bears Activities The math curriculum at my kids’ school has a strong focus on ten frames, so I was excited to find some wonderful ten frame teaching ideas at Boy Mama Teacher Mama. I printed these frames for free and used them in a game with my Five and Seven. They each rolled a die, put that number of bears on the frame, and then chose a different color of bears to fill in the rest of the frame. Finally, they wrote an addition problem to show an answer up to ten. Balancing Scale and Counting Bears Activities– Balancing scales are a fun hands-on activity. See how many counting bears you can balance at one time. Practice reading number words. Use the correct amount of bear counters to correlate to the number word.Counting Matching Puzzle - This resource contains cards consisting of numbers and visual representations of those numbers in different illustrations. Kids are tasked to match the numbered and picture cards together. Children start learning patterns as soon as they start reception. You can reinforce their learning with counters at home. Print my patterns sheets and practice repeating patterns and finding missing patterns.

Problem Solving Using Bear Counters for 1st and 2nd Grade– Working on problem solving skills with your elementary aged students? These activities will help. More Counting Bears Activities Measuring objects may seem a bit boring for young kids, but when given a chance to measure their favorite toys and use a fun, nonstandard unit of measurement like counting bears, children will enjoy this activity more than you would expect! Measuring with bear counters is an excellent way to introduce preschoolers to measurement. It even gives kids lots of practice with counting and number recognition. Printable Bear Math Patterns for Preschoolers– Practice patterning with these pattern strips. Counting Bears Worksheets These online bear counters are unbearably cute! Yet, they’re also useful and can help with a range of lessons from Pre-K through upper elementary students.Preparation– For this activity you’ll need the teddy bear bus mat, addition cards, number cards and counters. He continued to measure the length of each item with the counting bears and we recorded each one. When we were done I asked a few questions to get him thinking critically:

This activity would be a great addition to your Busy Box rotation, or as a preschool center. Children may even want to work on other names (parents/sibling/classmates) so be prepared with several other words and names! Roll the dice game helps build children maths skills. Start by Rolling two dice and build the array on the paper. For example, if you roll dice and 3 and a 2 comes up then, fill the boxes with the counters. At the end write the multiplication problem and count the total number of counters. There are many ways you could use these free counting bear printables! What makes this resource great is that it can be used either in the classroom or at home, so it’s perfect for teachers, parents, and home-educators. You can use these cards as props for creating sums and ask children questions like: ‘If I had 3 red bears and 4 blue bears, how many bears would I have in total?’ Soon after my children start talking and are able to communicate, I would hear them not only repeat the numbers to me while we counted, but even start counting on their own. Animal Paw Print Color Matching Game for Preschoolers– This is a fun spinner game that uses colorful animal pawprints to match the bears up to. Counting Bears and Numbers PrintablesTeddy Tables is a fun learning game where students practise addition and sharing using teddy bear counters. The rules of the game are as follows: Sorting and color recognition– These colorful bears come in fun, bright, primary colors and work great as sorting toys. Young children enjoy sorting them into groups by color. I showed my son the toys and the bear counters and told him that he was going to have the chance to measure his toys and see how big (or small) they were. He was going to line the bear counters up one by one next to the toys and see how many bear counters long or wide each toy was.