Magnetic Educational Toy set-Developmental toy range
Educational objectives
1)Enumerating from 1 to 6
2)Identifying how a surface is organised
3)Associating 2 pieces of information given on two dice.
4)Interpreting instructions given on dice
5)Socialisation: following the rulers and playing collectively
Recommended ages
From 3 to 5 years old
Playing materials
-4 magnetic laminated cardboard cards(23cmX33cm),depicting 4 animals(ladybird,fish,turtle,snail).Each animal is divided into 6 zones.Each zone is a different colour and contains an outlined space for tokens numbered from 1 to 6
-96 magnetic cardboard counter in 6 colours
-2 wooden dice: 1 dice with colours and 1 with spots
-1 teacher's leaflet
Pedagogical approach
a)Warm-up activities
-Recognising and naming colours
-Sorting tokens by colours
-Recognising and naming the number of spots on the dice,counting,enumerating up to 6
b)How to play
-Initially,an adult should lead this activity
-Each child is given a card,the tokens are sorted on the "storage" cards
-The players take turns rolling the 2 dice and complete their cards by following the 2 insturctions given on the dice(number and color).If a player rolls the same combination more than once,he passes his turn or plays again depending on the age group.
-The objective is for each player to fill their game card completely.
c)Remarks
Certain combinations do not correspond to a space on the cards (1 and 6 red,1 and 6 yellow,3 and 4 green,3 and 4 blue,2 and 5 orange,2 and 5 pink); in such a case,the player rolls the dice again.