Montessori Antarctic Polar Animal Match – Miniature Arctic Animal Toy Figurines with Matching Cards – 2 Part Cards. Montessori Learning Toy, Language Materials Busy Bag Activity

This Montessori learning activity focuses on matching miniature animals to their matching realistic photo cards. Children lay out the cards and place the miniature animal on the matching picture. This activity is small enough to take with you and can be extended into pretend play with the mini animals. Animals include: Killer Whale, Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Humpback Whale, Antartic Fur Seal, Crabeater Seal, Emperor Penguin, Wandering Albatross, Chinstrap Penguin, Rockhopper Penguin. What is Included: – 10 miniature animals. (approx 2-3″ long) – 10 laminated cards professionally printed on 100# cardstock and laminated with 5 mil lamination. The cards are classroom tough. Cards are 2.6″x 2.5″ Matching Skill – Visual Discrimination: This activity focuses on more advanced preschool matching. The objects are not an exact copy of the photo so children need to carefully observe details to match correctly. Children problem solve by looking at distinctive attributes that they can see on both the object and the photo. Usually, they will start by color and eliminate pictures that do not share the same color. They can also look at shapes, patterns, and details. They might ask themselves “what fish has spots?” or “which fish is long and skinny?”. Most likely they will notice more than one fish with spots and have to look at another attribute. Recognizing these little details helps a child grow their category knowledge and learn new vocabulary!

Features

• This Montessori learning activity focuses on matching miniature antartic animals to their matching realistic photo cards. Children lay out the cards and place the miniature animals on the matching picture. This set is also a perfect addition to Montessori continent boxes (North American, Europe and Asia)
• Visual Discrimination: This activity focuses on more advanced preschool matching. The objects are not an exact copy of the photo so children need to carefully observe details to match correctly.
• Includes 10 miniature antartic animal replicas (2″- 3″ Long) – 10 laminated cards professionally printed on 100# cardstock and laminated with 5 mil lamination. The cards are classroom tough. Cards are 2.6″x 2.5″
• Noticing subtle attributes, such as color or shape, is a building block to reading and math. For example, when your child notices the similarities and differences in shapes, such as a square and a rectangle, they using the same skills needed to recognize the differences between letters, number and symbols.
• Animals include: Killer Whale, Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Humpback Whale, Antarctic Fur Seal, Crab-eater Seal, Emperor Penguin, Wandering Albatross, Chinstrap Penguin, Rockhopper Penguin.