Curious Minds Busy Bags Montessori Endangered Species Animal Match Cards and Figurines. Nomenclature Science Work Continent Box

This Montessori learning activity focuses on matching miniature endangered animal species to their matching realistic photo cards. Children lay out the cards and place the miniature animal replica on the matching picture. This activity is small enough to take with you and can be extended into pretend play with the mini animals. 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 "which animals have spots or stripes?" or "which are orange?" Recognizing these little details helps a child grow their category knowledge and learn new vocabulary! What is Included: - 10 miniature plastic Safari LTD animal figurines. (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" Educational toy ideal for learning centers, therapy, school, daycare and adults with dementia or memory loss. Extensions: - The photo cards include names of the animals so you can extend the play with researching the species! - This activity is small enough to take with you and can be extended into pretend play or sensory bins with the mini figurines. - You can have the children sort and categorize the figurines by like traits on their own. What they are learning while having fun - Matching objects to pictures encourage