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Have you used these types of Pink Tower and Brown Stairs extensions with your kids?????
Today I am posting about Montessori Sensorial Extension Activities. These
activities are Perfect for kids 3 to 5 years old. The Sensorial Extension cards
for Pink Tower and Brown Stairs by @Montessori Series were the perfect
challenge for hardworking, hands-on type of boy.
Below you will find photos of set of extensions (Free Printable) for you to use in your Montessori classroom (and the names we gave them). Like the Montessori materials themselves, the pictures call to our kids and compel them to build, build, build! We hope you enjoy them!
Click Here to Download Free Printable Pink Tower and Brown Stairs Extension Cards:
Introduction to Pink Tower and Brown Stairs Extensions:
The Pink Tower is a set of 10 cubes with the
largest cube 10cm x 10cm and the smallest base of 1cm, with each cube
increasing by a centimeter. The tower is built starting with the largest cube
to the smallest.
The Brown Stair set is made up of 10 rectangular
prisms measuring 20cm in length, with the largest 10cm on the side diminishing
to 1cm to the smallest stair. The stair can be built starting with the
thinnest or thickest in the order of gradation.
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The teacher would step in as the kids hand her the cube and prism. It’s always fun to see how tall you can build it and it still balance. At house, we couldn’t finish the tower because our ceiling was too low and, thankfully, it didn’t fall. It’s an exercise in balance, control, and patience.
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My favorites, Brown Stair is a constant attraction in the Montessori classroom. A frequent partner to the Pink Tower, the Broad Stair shares some qualities in common with its upright partner: dimensions in diminishing tenths that support the Base-10 system and the proportions of the base of each prism. But while the Pink Tower teaches children about the relationship of size and weight, the Broad Stair teaches children to distinguish by thickness. Each prism differs in its thickness, such that placing the prisms in sequence creates an orderly staircase.
Pink Tower and Brown Stair Activities Pictures:
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Click Here to Download Free Printable Pink Tower and Brown Stairs Extension Cards:
Once the stair is built, the real fun begins. Children
initially develop their visual and tactile discrimination by building the
simple staircase (although there's also some good gross motor control in
carrying the heaviest prisms back and forth from the shelf to the mat.) After
the stair is mastered, children may discover that they can align the thinnest
prism in the space created between the height of each of the other stairs. Or
they may grade the stair from the extremes or from the midpoint. Or they may
play distance games with the superlative, positive and comparative language
describing the prisms. Or they may discover some of the extensions that exist
when they combine the stair and tower. There are plenty of ways to build a
tower, but only these materials together do so in a way that also reinforces
the Base Ten number system and expands on the child's understanding of the
relationships of dimension.
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