I am so happy to share Vito’s favourite counting activities and materials, our Ten Frames Winter printables!!! This printable was created out of pinetree counting sheets which I created last autumn. It was so popular that I wanted to recreate it and at the same time, include ten frames seen in our dinosaur post which was Vito’s favourite too. So combining these together, plus a tracing activity of numbers has led me to produce these products!
Showing posts with label 3.5 to 4 years old. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3.5 to 4 years old. Show all posts
Thanksgiving Themed Rhyme and Beginning Letter Sound BINGO Game
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Introducing the Montessori Pink Series for Beginning Reading
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
I've talked about Vito’s sensitive years for letters in my Instagram account. Since September, he’s been into letter sounds, identifying beginning letter sounds, sorting objects according to sound, making rhymes, forming words, pretending to read and deciphering words etc. so I decided to give him a “structured” activity on alphabets. Here’s what we have been doing so far:
- Five in a Row activities that are tied to a letter
- A letter of the week kind of activity to go along with a holiday or season (letter l and letter a)
- Reading lots of books
- After learning a letter, we would read and create his own phonics booklet
During the course of these activities, I observed that he would try to decipher a word, or pretend to create words using sticky tapes, in writing and using our moveable alphabet. Plus, he knows 90% of the letter sounds (though he's still confused with c and k). With the signs, I knew he would be ready for the Montessori Pink Series. And oh boy, it was the best decision I made!
The Alphabet Sound Books for Learning Letters
Monday, October 23, 2017
I am so excited to share our Alphabet Sound Books! Vito is currently in a sensitive period for letters and I knew I just have to provide him with these booklets which I also made for Mavi years ago when he was learning his letters.
Learning The Human Skeleton for Preschoolers
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
We’ve been singing a lot of Halloween songs at home lately and Vito was fascinated with the Skeleton Dance song. I decided to give him some activities on skeletons just like what Mavi and I did years ago (The Skeletal System).
The Montessori Constructive Triangles
Monday, October 16, 2017
I am so excited to introduce to you the Montessori Constructive Triangles! This is one of my favourite Montessori material because I find it useful for my 3 years old and my elementary. In this post, I’m showing you each of the content of the boxes and how it is being used in learning plane geometric shapes.
Preschool Learning Letter L Activities
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Presenting our letter “l” activities! We’ve started “letter of the week” kind of activities since September because of Vito’s interest in letter sounds and reading. We’ve been reading FIAR books over the summer and this led him to further explore words and language activities.
Favourite Activity Trays for Autumn
Thursday, October 12, 2017
FREE Letter S Dot and Tracing Activity Sheets
Monday, October 2, 2017
Hands-on Learning of Geometric Shapes
Monday, September 25, 2017
Vito is currently in the mood for learning geometric shapes. I guess he was inspired by his older brother who is currently studying basic geometry at home. Vito has passed the stage of basic shapes, the ones you see in children’s puzzles and the like. He’s been playing with those since he was a toddler, so I decided to introduce him to geometric shapes in the Montessori classroom. It would have been nice if we own the Geometric Cabinet, but because we can’t afford one and we don’t have space for it, these insets which are basically materials for writing is a good alternative (best to none). Note that these are not the traditional metal insets, we are using the plastic version.
Snake Game: Search for the Perfect 10
Thursday, September 21, 2017
FREE Letter L Dot and Tracing Activity Sheets
Monday, September 18, 2017
The leaves
are beginning to fall! We’re seeing a lot in our area so yesterday, we collected a few and brought it home. Vito immediately took our letter L dot sheets to go along with his new discoveries: fallen leaves!
Preschool Learning Letter A Activities
Sunday, September 17, 2017
We’ve started letter activities again because of the renewed interest of Vito with our language materials. Let me just share with you some of these activities in case you needed ideas on how to start a letter of unit activity with your kids.
Montessori Inspired Autumn Themed Learning Activities
Saturday, September 16, 2017
I finally organized our shelf and added autumn-themed activity trays to go along with the change in season. Vito has been learning a lot from the outdoors, discovering new things (nature finds) and has been observing the changes in his surroundings. Now to extend this learning, I prepared these activity trays. How it works? These are prepared and placed in the shelf (except for the paints). At times, Vito would randomly select an activity and there are times I would place the activity tray on the table and invite him to play (or work) with me. If he’s not interested on the said activity, I let him return it back to the shelf and make him select a new one. This is how I check what’s miss and hit of the learning trays.
Note that this is a MONTH LONG of activities!
FREE Letter A Dot and Tracing Activity Sheets
Friday, September 15, 2017
Last spring Vito and I started to work on letters and letter sounds again (Beginning Letter Phonics Cards and Beginning Reading: Language Objects and Activities). Because he enjoyed working on these Letter B activity sheets, he always asked for “more” sheets to work on and always repeating “buh for bird” and other b objects. This led me to create more sheets! And because it’s apple season, I gave him “Aa” and it was perfect! He worked on all three sheets! More of this letter A activities but for now, I’m sharing our FREE letter A sheets.
Fall Counting Activities Using Nature’s Objects (FREE Printable)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
It’s our favourite time of the year and we are spending more time outdoors observing the change in season and gathering objects from mother nature! In my Instagram, I’ve been posting pictures of the boys gathering chestnuts, conkers, pine cones and acorn outdoors and bringing them home. If you’ve been following my blog, we call them “nature finds” and at home, the boys would play with them, mostly exploring the objects (texture, smell and color) and of course, counting how many items they collected.
FREE Letter B for Bear Mazes
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Vito is currently in a sensitive period with mazes. The first time I noticed this was when we were eating in a restaurant and he was all of a sudden glued on the kids’ activity page given to him which contains lots of mazes. And much to my surprise, he successfully solved most of it! This went for weeks, whenever we are in restaurants. So what to do when your child acts like this? Of course, print lots and lots of mazes at home, give them pens and markers, and have them work the mazes out! You can see a series of this post in my Instagram, accounting his fascination with mazes. (Vito likes mazes while Mavi is into crossword puzzles LOL)
Learning the Life Cycle of a Frog for Kids
Saturday, August 26, 2017
We've been learning about frogs for the past weeks, and finally, we get to use our Life Cycle Frog layered puzzle from Beleduc. This beautiful piece of layered puzzle shows all the development stages of a frog's life in tiers. If you are trying to incorporate hands-on materials in teaching the life cycle of these types of animals, read on to learn more about our activity.
Montessori Inspired Frog Activity Trays for Preschoolers
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
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