Manipulatives are learning tools that can grab attention and keep a preschooler engaged. Learning through manipulative play requires that a child use objects to build, weigh, move, order, turn, or arrange to fit.
The following Early Learning Manipulatives are available for check-out to use at home.
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Bob Books: Collection 6, First Stories and Rhyming Words |
Contains: 22 little readers, parent/teacher guide, 40 puzzle flash cards |
Easy-to Read books for beginners (one syllable words), sight word recognition, confidence building, rhyming words help build awareness of sounds and language |
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Community Buildings File Folders |
Contains: 3 file folder with building inserts, 48 cards for matching with buildings |
Learning about Community offers lots of benefits for kids: promotes safety by teaching kids who to ask for help, inspires interest in possible careers, encourage interest in one’s own community. |
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Green Eggs and Ham Lapbook |
Contains: 1 file folder with 12 rhyming words, 10 matching cards, 8 sight words, 16 rhyming eggs |
A lapbook is a brilliant and interactive way to help reinforce learning. Practice basic reading skills using sight words, pictures and rhyming words. |
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How to Dress for Winter (sequencing activity) |
Contains: 1 sequencing mat & 5 cards, 5 cards with pictures, 5 cards with pictures and sentences, 5 cards with sentences |
Sequencing helps with comprehension, problem-solving, being able to observe and recall. Learn about patterns in relationships and we learn to understand the order of things. |
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Lego Chain Reactions: Design and Build Amazing Moving Machines |
Contains: Title book, 33 Legos, 6 Lego balls, string, 17 ramps & signs |
Learn about the science of chain reactions. Building Legos helps with communication, problem solving, mathematics, creativity, experimentation, physical development, perseverance and management of frustrations, self-confidence, patience and focus. |
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Lego Gadgets |
Contains: Title book, 58 Legos, 18 paper cut-outs |
Build different machines. Building Legos helps with communication, problem solving, mathematics, creativity, experimentation, physical development, perseverance and management of frustrations, self-confidence, patience and focus. |
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Life Cycle of a Plant |
Contains: plant life cycle flash cards (6) with mat, plant life cycle cards (4), plant life cycle worksheet, sunflower life cycle coloring book kit, key term flash cards (8), instruction sheet |
Recite and draw the life cycle of a plant. Name the three things plants need to grow. |
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Music Backpack |
Contains: “I Know A Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello” by Barbara S Garriel, “Musical Instruments from A to Z” by Bobbie Kalman, Musical Instruments (2 brass cymbals, 1 metal triangle w/ striker, 1 wooden chino tone block w/ stick, 1 castanet, 2 maracas, 1 tambourine), Wooden Sound Puzzle (8 pieces), Activity Sheet, Contents Sheet |
Support vocabulary development, fun with music |
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Pattern Block Mats: Fall & Halloween |
Contains: 7 Mats (apple, bat, jack-o-lantern, pumpkin x 2, scarecrow, spider) Blocks available as separate check-out. |
Identify shapes, develop fine motor skills, problem solving skills, strong sense of achievement |
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What’s Wet, What’s Dry? |
Contains: 1 wet & 1 dry card, 8 matching cards |
Improves concentration & short term memory, train visual memory, increase attention to detail, improve ability to identify similarities and differences in objects |