Sunday, February 26, 2017
Montessori Inspired March Activities for Preschoolers
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Animals Around the World Activity
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Montessori Inspired Parts of a Flower Activities
For Mavi's midterm break, I am planning activities that both my 3-year-old and 8-year-old boys can participate in. One of the activities is to learn about flowers and their composition. Despite having done this activity before at the ages of 4 and 6, Mavi is still excited to do it again with his younger brother. This is a new challenge for me as I need to ensure that the activity is engaging for my younger son, while also conveying information to my older son. In the post, you can find out how I made the boys work together in the activities that I prepared for them.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
My Blog Directory!
Hello everyone!! I’m so happy to let you know that I now have a blog directory! This is a visual organization of all my posts (archives) categorized by age and topics. You can easily access this by clicking the image on the upper right corner of my blog with this icon:
Monday, February 20, 2017
Montessori Inspired Trays for St. Patrick’s Day
Friday, February 17, 2017
We Love MiniLUK
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Hands-On Learning on Common Flowers
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Collection of Color Learning Activities for Preschoolers
For the month of February, my entry for the 12 Months More of Montessori Learning is all about how we learn and explore colors at home. If you are looking for more ideas on how to extend your color activities at home, then this is definitely for you! At 39 months, Vito is knowledgeable of all basic colors and I just have to nurture this knowledge through planned and spontaneous activities.
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LEARN COLORS THROUGH NATURE FINDS
Last year, Vito and I started bringing home “nature finds”. This was the time when he turned 3 years old and stopped mouthing objects. We would bring simple things like sticks, pinecones, flowers or rocks, then placed them in a basket for more exploration. We discussed the objects’ texture, shape, weight (heavy or light), size (big or small) and of course the color/s. To simply demonstrate how to extend the “nature table” activity by focusing on colors, Vito and I collected and glued some flowers, leaves and sticks on a white cardstock and then matched them to their nearest colors in the Montessori Color Tablets (3rd Box)
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Because they are placed in a white background, Vito can easily identify the color tablets closest to the petals, leaves and sticks. This is a simple activity that’s so easy to replicate. You can work on rocks, different hues of leafy greens, flowers and more.
COLOR GRADING
We are now using Montessori Color Tablets (3rd Box)
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I will talk about the Montessori Color Tablets (3rd Box)
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COUNTERS
I love Learning Resources’ counters and we use them a lot at home. We extended its use not just for counting but for color sorting and fine motor skills activities too! What you see here are the Mini Motors
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IN FOODS
We worked on fruits and vegetables last year too and sorted out their colors. Vito loves our play pretend Farmers Market Color Sorting Set
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RAINBOW COLORS
Nothing beats learning colors through the rainbow! We love our Large Grimm's Rainbow Stacker
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ARTS
Of course, there’s the paints
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COLORS IN BOOKS
There are so many books on colors but this book
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COLORS IN SCIENCE
This was an experiment we did last year and Vito loved it! This is one of the many ways we show our kids how secondary colors are formed. See how Vito studied color mixing through this post "Color Mixing: Green, Orange and Purple".
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EVERYWHERE
Colors are everywhere! Don’t limit yourself to the ones you have at home (objects). Go out and explore the colors in forests, beaches, parks and just about anywhere… and it’s free!
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This post is part of the 12 Months More of Montessori which is hosted by Natural Beach Living and The Natural Homeschool.
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Monday, February 13, 2017
Educational Puzzles for Preschoolers
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Montessori Inspired Animal Continents Activity Sheets
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Montessori Inspired ASIA Continent for Preschoolers
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Animal Skin Covers Sensorial Matching Activity for Preschoolers
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Friday, February 3, 2017
STEM Toy Learning Optics with Laser Maze Logic Game
The boys are crazy over this Laser Maze Logic Game. I came across this logic STEM toy while I was scouting for learning materials for Mavi’s “optics” activity. Mavi loves solving the problems in the task cards and Vito on the other hand is fascinated by the effect of the laser light on the target.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Play-based Dinosaur Activities for Preschoolers
We are exploring dinosaurs till mid of the month and we get to use our Playmobil dinosaur sets!
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