beads – Early Math Counts https://earlymathcounts.org Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:57:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183791774 Large Colored Beads https://earlymathcounts.org/large-colored-beads/ https://earlymathcounts.org/large-colored-beads/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:00:36 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=246 Large colorful lacing beads are a wonderful tool to work on sequencing and patterns.  Many children will approach this manipulative with a certain amount of trepidation as “lacing” is hard and requires fairly developed fine motor skills and strong hand-eye coordination.  Many children work for a long time simply trying to get one bead on the string.

Suggestion…

Take your lacing string and tie the end to a chair or tape it on the table.  One of the frustrating elements of lacing beads is once the child gets the bead on the string, it may simply slip off the other end.  Make sure this doesn’t happen before you start.

How do you support children as they use explore the beads?

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