Many of you have been requesting this mini-unit and finally got a little time to make this pack for you! Introducing our Mini Unit for Cinco de Mayo or Fiesta Theme. With over 10 hands-on activities, kids will be introduced to some basic concept of Fiesta (a celebration we also observed in the Philippines) and/or Cinco de Mayo.
Montessori Friendly Toys for 9 Months Old
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Introducing Dental Health to Kids
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Spring Animal Life Cycles
Sunday, February 16, 2020
In this post, I am going to feature the life cycle of a (mallard) duck as we are already using it at home. I'm also listing down other spring animal (animals born in spring) life cycle sets that are also available in the shop.
Landmark Photocards Sorting Activity
Monday, February 3, 2020
Learning About Fruits Inside and Out
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Oceania Australia Animals Math Packet
Friday, January 24, 2020
Asia Continent Study for Kids
Monday, February 11, 2019
Here are some of the activities that we included in this year's Asia Study:
Montessori Golden Beads Bank Game
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Learning Multiplication Using Montessori Colored Bead Bars
Thursday, August 17, 2017
What You Need to Know About the Early Childhood Montessori Math Materials
Sunday, August 6, 2017
My Favorite Montessori Books
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Food Preparations That A 3 Year Old Can Do
Friday, May 19, 2017
Montessori Sensorial Activities: Stereognostic Mystery Bag
Thursday, March 30, 2017
I finally introduced the Montessori Stereognostic Bag to Vito. The Montessori Stereognostic Bag is often composed of 10 matching pairs of wooden shapes that is drawn in a bag to feel and match. This activity develops the stereognostic sense of the child, using touch to create a mental image of the object. Stereognostic sense is defined as the ability to perceive and recognize the form of objects in the absence of visual and auditory information. Other version of this is called “the mystery bag”, wherein most homeschool moms customized the content of their bags by putting nature objects or just about anything from around the house.
Montessori Sensorial The Brown Stairs
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
So I gave in to my desire and bought Vito the brown stairs, and boy oh boy, I didn’t regret it! Similar to the way he responded to the pink tower, Vito loves and enjoy using our Montessori brown stairs! I realized that there’s so much more we can do when he used both of the materials, the extension activities are limitless and pattern making is even more challenging!
The Montessori Number Rods
Monday, March 6, 2017
I love Montessori math materials. They are so engaging and well thought of that the child can easily absorb concepts and retain what is learned. Take for example this Number Rods which I recently introduced to Vito. We are mostly using counters in our math activities, it’s more abstract and quantitative. With Number Rods, counting here is more linear and sequential. My goal was for Vito to learn:
- how to sequence ‘one’ to ‘ten’ (they form a staircase)
- to understand the value of each number
Montessori Inspired March Activities for Preschoolers
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Montessori Inspired Animal Continents Activity Sheets
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Montessori Sensorial Activity The Pink Tower
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
We fell in love with the Montessori Sensorial Pink Tower right after we unboxed it! I observed that Vito has a liking in blocks and patterns, so we’ve been using the Pink Tower almost everyday recently. And just when I thought that this is just an ordinary material of stacking and building a tower, I was totally wrong. This is one of the Montessori materials I should have bought early on when Mavi was just a toddler/preschooler. I thought of exhausting the use of the Pink Tower with Vito so he will fully obtain the benefits out of this amazing material.
Sorting Game Using Alphabet Sound Cards
Friday, January 27, 2017
I am so excited that I finally found a way to keep Vito engaged in the alphabet sorting activity. You see we always sort out objects according to their letter sound (see it here), but my problem is that Vito is more interested with the objects rather than participating in the activity. The moment I opened the box for us to sort, he would take away one object at a time and he refuses to do the activity and would play instead. Now this is fine, I have no problems with it. In fact, this happened to Mavi too. I let them play with the objects first but then would ask them to participate in the activity right after. It was temporary for Mavi, he loved sorting objects according to beginning letters rather than playing with them. As for Vito, it’s different. He is still in a stage of being “playful” so our sorting activities are sometimes a struggle. He knows how to do it, but refuses because of the object.
My solution: I tried using a printed image instead of the objects and tada, he finished everything in a matter of seconds! With this, we are going to work on printed materials for now, and maybe mix them with objects occasionally just to test whether he has overcome his obsession with tiny figures.