3-part cards classifications

Three-part Cards

MATERIAL:
1. A tray containing:
(8) picture with label cards in a container
(8) picture cards in a container
(8) label cards in a container (These cards can represent any area of study)
2. Floor rug

PREPARATION:

The pictures for the picture cards can be sourced from National Geographic, magazines, Hypermarket flyers, used school text books or workbooks. I made mine mostly by scanning the pictures from books that I have from www.readinga-z.com and coloured them either with coloured pencils or a graphic program.

You may get some from thsi website too: http://www.montessorimaterials.org/lang.htm#class

Note:The teacher must make sure that the three containers of cards are not in order for the next child.

PRESENTATION

1. Invite the child or group of children.
2. Carry a floor rug in the way shown before over to an empty place on the floor.
3. Roll the rug out.
4. Go over to where the 3-Part Cards are kept.
5. The teacher should name the material for the child, “3-Part Cards”.
6. The teacher should demonstrate how to carry the tray with two hands (thumbs on top and fingers underneath the tray.
7. Invite the child to carry the tray over to the rug.
8. Place the tray at the top left hand corner of the rug.
9. Pick-up the whole cards (picture and label are all on one card) from the tray.
10. Place the first card to the right of the tray.
11. Point to the label and say “________” (the name of the object)
12. Place the second card below the first card.
13. Point to the label and say “__________” (the name of the object).
14. Repeat Steps #12 and #13 for the rest of the cards.
15. Next pick-up the picture cards from the tray.
16. While holding the first picture card in your hand, scan the pictures (top to bottom) until a match is made. Place the picture to the right of the picture with the label card.
17. Repeat Step #16 until all the pictures have been matched.
18. Pick-up the label cards from the tray.
19. While holding the first label card in your hand, scan the picture with the label cards (top to bottom) until a match is made. Place the label underneath the picture card. Point
to the label and say “______” (the name of the object).
20. Repeat Steps #16 and #17 with the other labels.
21. Admire your work.
22. Replace the picture with the label cards to their container on the tray starting at the top and going to the bottom of that row.
23. Replace the picture cards to their container on the tray starting at the top and going to the bottom of the row.
24. Replace the label cards to their container on the tray starting at the top and going to the bottom of the row.
24. Return the tray to the shelf where it belongs.
25. Roll your rug as you have been shown and return it to its place.
26. Invite a child.

VARIATIONS AND EXTENSIONS:
1. Have 3-Part Cards made-up for other areas of study.

POINT OF INTEREST
1. Learning to match words to pictures
2. Increase in language

CONTROL OF ERROR:
1. End up not having a label to match a picture with label card

AIMS

Visual discrimination, concentration, eyes-tracking from left to right, preparation for writing and reading, etc.

AGE
3 and up

LANGUAGE:
Names of objects, etc.