Flower Mandalas Code and Color Addition Algorithm Pages explore several different skills and learning concepts. First, they display the coloring directions on coding Blockly blocks. That means they teach how coding blocks work. Next, they work on addition facts. The addition facts are simple to solve. No number is larger than seven. Finally, each of the flowers is symmetrical. You can use them as an opportunity to talk about how symmetry. Young children may need to just understand symmetry as a reflection of shapes on both sides of the flower.
Getting the Flower Mandalas Code and Color Addition Algorithm Pages
First, you will need to download the set.
Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.
Third, you must go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after you download it. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.
Building Background
If your children don’t know a lot about spring flowers or flowers in general, you may want to read a book or do an activity that features them before you start these pages.
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This fun STEAM building kit invites children to create and build a garden of spring flowers.
Oh, Say Can You Seed?: All About Flowering Plants is a wonderful Cat in the Hat book that teaches children about the parts of plants and how they grow.
What fun it would be to plant a planter and then grow flowers in it!
The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art does a wonderful job of tying learning into growing.
Understanding the Directions on the Flower Mandalas Code and Color Addition
If you are having a non-reader work on the color-by-code pages, you may want to help them highlight what they need to do. First, you can have them underline the number they are focusing on for each step. Next, children will need to place a line that matches the color mentioned in that step over or under that number. That is what I have done with my children.
Some children will be fine with just highlighting the directions. However, there will be some that need to draw a dot near the number in each section that matches the assigned color. They can go back later and color in the whole section.
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