Ballet Numbers - points of a room

I love teaching my girls while integrating the arts.  I feel like it's such a natural way to approach learning and when I see these little projects become the building blocks to a bigger step with no confusion from them my hearts leaps.

Last year we began a number project to reinforce number recognition.  Each day we took a number and built a number board that also had a color theme.

With all of our colors we were able to use our play room to create a (sorta) color wheel

We had to add two more colors or shades to this project to make it work so I added black and white.  

The numbers and colors 

1 - white

2 - Red

3 - Orange

4 - Yellow

5 - Black

6 - Green

7 - Blue

8 - Purple

With these number boards we hung them around the room to illustrate the 8 points of a room as taught in classical ballet.

Note:  RAD and The Cechetti have a different method for numbering their directions. 

This is a glimpse of what our playroom corners look like

This year I added a new prop to my bag of teaching tools.

Using a cut yoga mat and a marker they now have a visual aid as I give them directions such as sit facing 3.

When our reading improves I will add to the reverse side stage directions, upstage, downstage, stage right, etc.