Recipe abacus beads6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() that each object touched or moved represents one number counted.)Ĭakie counted them with ease and we set the challenge of adding together groups. We practised working on 1:1 correspondence (i.e. Pop named the colours and was able to count small amounts independently and to higher numbers with my help. We talked about colours and shapes and I counted as she touched and moved them to help her become familiar with the number names. ![]() For baby Bean it was a great motor skill to be able to reach and pull the beads across the string. The abacus was fun for each girl at her own level of development. All finished and ready to play! We stood the box up and wedged it tight so it couldn’t fall down, then they started to move and count the beads across the strings. This is itself was a great maths game for sorting, matching and counting! We threaded 10 of each colour onto individual strings, then I pulled very tight to tighten the string and added another knot on the opposite side. Then the children were given the task of sorting the beads into piles according to colour, then counting gout 10 of each to thread onto the strings. I simply punctured some holes in either side of the box edges, making sure they lined up, then threaded the string across and knotted on the outside. The kids gathered some string and a big box of coloured wooden beads and we designed a huge abacus for counting and maths play! These are the beads that we used and love: We had a huge cardboard box in our house for a couple of months which we used to made scenery at Pop’s pirate party, a fishing boat for some Bible storytelling (pop on over to my other blog to see that one) and a giant train tracks small world game! Not keen to ever let a box go (much to my poor husband’s despair!) we squeezed one more use out of the other box lid. Turn a large cardboard box into a giant abacus for some fun counting and addition games with kids! Kinaesthetic learning and fun, with some motor skills mixed into the play too. ![]()
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