Domain :  Mathematics

 

Goals :

• Material classification according to the 3 colors: RED - BLUE - YELLOW

• React to sound signal

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Location :motor room

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Material :

• 3 boats = 3 benches adorned with 3 pennants (plots + sticks + scarves) one of each color

• Red, blue and yellow scarves

• Bottles (= RBJ skittles), chests (= boxes/asco RBJ blocks), oars (= batons moyens RBJ)

• a tambourine

• Know the nursery rhyme: Boat on the water

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Procedure:

In the motor skills room, three boats are materialized by three benches with a flag of a different color.

The children will sit near the boxes of scarves to listen to the instructions.

 

Introduce the game to children:

Today we are going to play pirates. There are 3 pirate ships in the playroom, these are the benches. To play, we will get into the boats, for that, you have to sit astride the bench.

Before going on the boats, you will dress up as pirates by putting on a scarf.

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First stage :

 

• Problem situation:

Each child chooses a scarf and then goes in a boat.

The scarves can be put around the neck, on the head, around the arm...

 

• Analysis of responses:

Random distribution of children unrelated to the color of the boat

The child associated the color of his scarf with the chosen boat

They did not all move in the same direction. (this will be important later)

 

-> Point out the color of the flag of each boat then new distribution of children

      Bring out the need to go to the boat of the color of the scarf.

 

• New test with sound signal

The children came back to the boxes of scarves. We are going to go on the boats again, without taking the wrong color, and this time at the signal of the tambourine.

Make several attempts with changing scarves to improve the distribution.

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Second step :

 

• The children are now in the boats:

Before going to sea, you must take the equipment : bottles (of rum), chests of gold, oars to move the boat forward. Everyone must take the material of the color of their boat.

At the signal of the tambourine, fetch :

1. bottles

2. the chests

3. trains

The material being placed near the boxes of scarves, pell-mell.

 

 

• Analysis of responses:

Each time, check that the child has brought back the right object, of the right color.

Put the bottles and chests in the hold (under the bench)

 

 

• Watch out for departure !

When the children have the oars, mime “ row ”. This is when it is important that everyone is in the same direction.

And we sing the nursery rhyme ;

Boat on the water

the river the river

Boat on the water

the river by the water

Small boat overturned

little guy just fell

Splash !

(and the kids fall in the water...they love it!)

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We pick up the equipment, bring it back near the boxes of scarves and start the game again.

 

 

Extensions :

 

In class

• Sorting of RBJ material (pencils, markers, papers, game elements, caps, etc.)

• Sheet to keep track

On an A4 sheet, sketch with markers a boat R a B and a J with flag

Ask the child to stick the RBJ stickers according to the color criterion.

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Thick rectangle = chest

 

Disc = bottle

 

Thin rectangle = oar

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• For the older ones, you can ask to draw the game, after the session in the motor skills room.