Young mathematicians bottle up colorful bugs as they learn to sort and count objects. With six different colored jars and six different colored bugs, children must place the creepy crawlers in their respective containers and see how many they can catch.

Concepts

sorting, sorting & categorizing, color recognition, colors, counting, counting by 1, addition

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Print out and laminate these materials, using them as an independent or small group learning center in pre-k or kindergarten classrooms
• Use these materials to teach about counting, comparing, adding, and subtracting single-digit numbers

Classroom Considerations

• Some prep time is required to cut out the individual bugs for use during this activity

Pros

• A separate document is included that explains how to use these materials to play a math game
• Activity can be used in a variety of different ways to teach a range of basic math concepts

Cons

• None

Common Core

K.CC.A.1 K.CC.B.5 K.CC.C.6 K.OA.A.1 K.OA.A.2 K.MD.B.3 MP6 MP7