Roll and Color

Here is a way to combine 2 new pages in the Pond Coloring Club! It will integrate some essential skills for your little learners:

• coloring
• visual discrimination
• language of position / math talk
• counting
• understanding of rows and columns  

• color and make the picture dice on the free page from the club
• use the Fun Day grid coloring page
• roll the picture dice and a 6 sided dot dice
• students count the rows down from the top of the page and find thematching picture in the row to color
• if the book picture is rolled - roll again
• in the example below, 4 is rolled along with the leaf, so we count 4 rows down and find the leaf picture to color
• encourage your students to talk about the square they colored - e.g. I colored the 4th picture in the 5th row - it's a leaf, it's next to the sun and above a starfish

Don't forget the dice page is free and ready to be printed! You can also use it for:

• a 'what will we do today' idea dice (instructions on the page)
• roll and say a word that links to the picture (e.g. beach if starfish is rolled)
• make 2 dice, roll 2 at a time and try to roll a match - count how many attempts it takes or time how long it takes (to develop awareness of time)

I hope you love these new pages and your students have fun while they're learning!