Okay, so your little ones can count up to ten, so what’s next? In this post, I’m going to show you how the Montessori math method, teaches a child the quantity and number symbols of eleven to nineteen. There’s a BIG difference being able to “count” from one to twenty or a hundred compared to grasping the concept of what these numbers stand for. This is where the beauty of Montessori math would stand out, it allows the child to experience the use of materials and its purpose, and once confidence is gained the child can work with the material independently.
To demonstrate this, here’s our journey of learning the “teens”.
Vito has perfected the Montessori Binomial Cube and I will be introducing him to the Trinomial cube in a few weeks. Now, I still have a lot of readers and followers who aren’t aware of this beautiful material and has been asking me to give them further information about this material. So I prepared this post to all who are interested in learning about this beautiful Montessori sensorial material.
A long overdue post on our plant and tree studies early this month. Last month, I bought Vito an indoor plant to care for. Through that plant, he learned that it needs water, sunlight and air to survive. But because it’s been really hot and we were away most the time, it wilted. We took it out so we can reuse the pot and Vito saw webbed roots and was immediately fascinated by it! He didn’t know what to call it yet, thus I decided to give him an introduction to the parts of the plant so he’ll know the right word to describe the parts.
I am so happy to share that we finally get to dye our flowers successfully! Meaning, ALL of the colors were visible unlike before wherein only a few of the colors took effect (red and yellow). I’ve been wondering on how we can successfully color our flowers, with 100% coverage and we finally did it this time! By the way, we worked on this activity because I was demonstrating to Vito the function of the stem in a plant.
This is a matching and memory game I made for Vito during our Plants and Trees Unit Study. He absolutely loved this! I regretted that I didn’t make more, because he kept on asking for more matching games.
We’ve done this before (in 2013) and we made another one again! Creating our planets for our solar system using aluminium foil. Have done this before? I mentioned the source of this activity in my previous post, read it here.
Due to a lot of requests from our readers, I’m sharing our FREE Insect Jars Counting Mats which we used in our Indoor Garden Play Bug Counting Activity.
