Rainbow bear counter activities bring color, counting and letter fun to your preschool math and literacy centers! The Rainbow Bear Mega Pack for Preschool fills pages 3-126 with 21 hands-on activities built around the bright little counting bears preschoolers love to scoop, sort and line up.

Preschoolers practice patterns, colors, counting, pre-writing skills and more. You can use the pack without rainbow counting bear manipulatives, but it's even more fun with real bears in hand. Picture-based student instructions come with every activity, so children can get started on their own.

With this rainbow bear counters mega pack, you get:

• Counting, number recognition and ten-frame practice
• Color recognition, color sorting and pattern mats
• Uppercase and lowercase letter matching and CVC rhyming words
• Pre-writing tracing cards and a write and color the room activity
• Games for partners, small groups and the whole class

Print a few favorites, grab your bear counters and your centers are set.

What's Included

• Pages 3-13: Rainbow Counting Bear Number Mats with Ten-Frame. Trace the number, count the bears on the mat and fill in the ten-frame.
• Pages 14-17: Rainbow Bear Color Clip Cards. Find the matching bear on each clip card.
• Pages 18-21: Rainbow Counting Bear Clip Cards. Count the bears on each card and clip the number, 1-10.
• Pages 22-23: Rainbow Bear Counting Cards. Use bear counters to show the number on each card.
• Pages 24-28: Rainbow Bear Size Clip Cards. Find the largest or smallest bear on each card.
• Pages 29-31: Rainbow Counting Bear Number Matching Game. A matching game for number recognition and counting to 10.
• Pages 32-37: Rainbow Bear Alphabet Matching Game. Match uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Pages 38-43: Themed Rhyme Matching Game. Find pairs of rhyming CVC words. CVC words are three-letter words that follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
• Pages 44-46: Rainbow Bear Color Matching Game. A simple first matching game where children match the colored bears.
• Pages 47-52: Rainbow Bear Number Line-Up Puzzles. Practice counting 1-5 or 1-10 with number order puzzles.
• Pages 53-56: Rainbow Bear Missing Number Cards. Find the missing numbers 1-10.
• Pages 57-59: Rainbow Bear Tic-Tac-Toe. A partner game for taking turns.
• Pages 60-68: Rainbow Bear Write & Color the Room. Find the colored bears hidden around the room, with 4 recording page options: tracing, writing on lines, writing in a box or coloring.
• Pages 69-79: Rainbow Bear Pattern Mats. 2 pages each of AB, ABB, AABB and ABC patterns.
• Pages 80-82: Rainbow Bear Color Sorting Mats. Sort the colored bears onto the matching colored mats.
• Pages 83-87: Themed Line Tracing Cards. Trace the lines with dry erase markers or crayons. Children can also copy each line into a salt tray.
• Pages 88-90: Rainbow Counting Bear I Spy Counting Mats. An I Spy game combined with counting.
• Pages 91-95: Rainbow Bear Number Matching Puzzles. Match numerals to arrays when counting to 10.
• Pages 96-97: Rainbow Bear Color Matching Puzzles. Simple color matching puzzles.
• Pages 98-99: Rainbow Bear Roll and Count Game. Roll the die and add the matching number of bears to the jar.
• Pages 100-126: Rainbow Bear Color BINGO Game. For small groups or the whole class.
• Picture-based student instructions for every activity

Why Teachers Love It

• A full set of centers in one pack: 21 math and literacy activities share one cheerful bear theme, so you can plan weeks of centers from one download.
• Works with or without bear counters: Use your rainbow counting bears for hands-on fun or use the printable pages on their own.
• Builds independence: Picture-based student instructions for every activity help preschoolers know what to do. Display them right alongside your centers.
• Hands-on and multisensory: Clip cards, puzzles, a salt tray option, dice and a write and color the room hunt keep children moving, touching and talking.
• Flexible for any group size: Tic-tac-toe works for partners, while BINGO works for small groups or the whole class.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Counting and one-to-one correspondence: Children count bears on mats, clip cards and the roll and count jar.
• Number recognition: Children trace numbers, match numerals to groups and play the number matching game.
• Ten-frames: Children fill in a ten-frame to show each number.
• Number order: Line-up puzzles and missing number cards build counting in order from 1-5 and 1-10.
• Size comparison: Children find the largest or smallest bear.
• Color recognition and sorting: Children match, sort and name colors across clip cards, puzzles, mats and BINGO.
• Patterns: Children extend AB, ABB, AABB and ABC patterns.
• Letter recognition: Children match uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Rhyming: Children find pairs of rhyming CVC words, building phonological awareness.
• Pre-writing and early writing: Line tracing cards and write the room recording pages build pencil control.
• Fine motor skills: Clipping cards and handling bear counters strengthen little hands.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Taking turns
• Playing with a partner
• Listening during group BINGO
• Remembering card locations during matching games
• Following picture directions
• Working independently
• Building confidence during group participation

How to Use It

Step 1: Choose the activities that fit your current math or literacy focus and print them. Laminate cards and mats you want to reuse.

Step 2: Set out each activity with the picture-based student instructions and rainbow bear counters if you have them.

Step 3: Model the activity once, then let children play in centers, small groups or as a whole class. Rotate in new activities whenever children are ready for something fresh.

Easy Differentiation

Preschoolers grow at very different rates. This pack has built-in options to simplify or add a challenge to almost every activity.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with the number line-up puzzles for 1-5
• Begin with the color matching game, a great first matching game
• Use fewer cards in each matching game
• Start with AB pattern mats
• Choose the tracing or coloring recording page for write and color the room
• Count with real bear counters on the counting cards

For On-Level Practice

• Use the number line-up puzzles for 1-10
• Count and clip numbers 1-10 on the counting clip cards
• Extend ABB and AABB patterns
• Choose the writing on lines recording page

For an Extra Challenge

• Use a double die in the roll and count game to work on addition
• Extend ABC patterns
• Choose the writing in a box recording page
• Find missing numbers on the missing number cards
• Play the rhyme matching game and name more rhyming words

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Use the picture-based student instructions as a visual support
• Practice color words, number words and rhyming words aloud during play
• Use the clip cards to build hand strength and pincer grasp
• Trace lines in a salt tray for sensory pre-writing practice
• Offer a choice between two cards or two bears
• Choose the coloring recording page for children not yet writing

Perfect For

• Preschool and pre-K math centers
• Literacy centers
• Small groups
• Whole class games
• Circle time
• Partner games
• Intervention
• Indoor recess
• Special education classrooms
• Speech and OT sessions
• Homeschool preschool
• Substitute plans

Standards

These rainbow bear activities support the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and Virginia's Early Learning and Development Standards (2021), and they build toward kindergarten skills in Common Core, the TEKS and the Virginia SOL (Math 2023, English 2024):

• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.A.2: Count up to 10 objects, touching one object for each number. Children count bears on the mats, clip cards and roll and count jar.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.A.5: Recognize numerals 0-10 on number mats, puzzles and the number matching game.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.D.1: Compare the size of objects. Size clip cards ask children to find the largest or smallest bear.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.1: Sort objects that are the same and different, such as bears on the color sorting mats.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.3: Recognize, copy, extend and create patterns with AB, ABB, AABB and ABC pattern mats.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.III.B.6: Identify rhyming words while playing the rhyme matching game.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.III.C.1: Recognize and name letters by matching uppercase and lowercase pairs.
• Virginia ELDS CD3.1: Compare numbers, count and recognize quantities with ten-frames, line-up puzzles and missing number cards.
• Virginia ELDS CD3.4: Sort, classify and pattern with colored bears.
• Virginia ELDS CD3.5: Describe and compare objects by size.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD2.3: Notice that spoken words are made of smaller sounds, including rhyming parts.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD2.4: Learn how letters work by matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
• CCSS K.CC.B.4.a: Say number names in order while pairing each object with one number.
• CCSS RF.K.1.d: Recognize and name uppercase and lowercase letters.
• CCSS RF.K.2.a: Recognize and produce rhyming words.
• TEKS Math K.2.C: Count a set of objects and show that the last number said tells how many.
• TEKS ELAR K.2.A.i: Identify and produce rhyming words.
• VA SOL Math K.NS.1.a: Use one-to-one correspondence to find how many are in a set.
• VA SOL Math K.PS.1.a: Sort and classify objects by one attribute, such as color.
• VA SOL Math K.PFA.1.b: Extend a repeating pattern by adding at least two more repetitions of the core.
• VA SOL English K.FFR.3.A: Identify capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

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Make math and literacy centers a breeze with the Rainbow Bear Mega Pack for Preschool. With 21 rainbow bear counter activities, picture-based student instructions and options for every learner, you'll have counting, colors, patterns, letters and rhyming ready to go all year. Add this resource to your cart today!

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