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These are some other short extension activities we did to consolidate what we learnt about red, and at the same time practice other skills such as fine motor planning. Conversations were extended such as discussing the fact that red is a bright...

Going out and collecting red things turned out to be a rich sensory experience for my 5 year old - feeling the dampness of the facecloth from the bathroom to listening to the sound it makes to bang the red tin to smelling the red flowers we found...

This Circle Map was created during a recent short course (Mediation for Classroom Teachers) run for teachers in Metro East Education District.

This is an excellent example of a concept-teaching classroom. The teacher (Mrs C Langeveldt from Blue Downs Primary) has made effective use of colour, shape, size, position, letter and number in the physical environment. The visually rich...

Teachers at training courses are asked to identify the key criteria of the Basic Concepts Programme. It is interesting to see what criteria have been identified by different groups of teachers.

Examples of size drawings (big, medium and small) after a visualization (internalization) activity. Learners are asked to draw what they 'saw' when their eyes were closed. They are not assisted when drawing these size concepts.

Colour poems by a mediator from Enkeldoorn Primary School, Kwena Basin Project, Mpumalanga.

Create your own poster for each conceptual domain. You could also create word clouds for the specific and cognitive language associated with each domain.  Go to http://www.tagxedo.com/ to create your own word clouds.

These are examples of the BC knowledge test that I gave two Grade R boys before I started doing the BC programme with them.