Color Mixing Activity for Preschoolers: Green, Orange and Purple
Sunday, September 25, 2016
After exploring colour shades and tints, we moved on to learning secondary colours. We have a few books on colours but this book Colours My First Discovery Book got Vito hooked. It’s the only book he ever cared about when were discussing colours. I highly recommend this book for kids ages 1.5 years and older. My first attempt of showing him the blue and yellow makes green was using tempera paints, but it was short lived. His attention span was about 5 minutes and after that he wasn’t interested anymore. So I went back to the one activity that he loves: colour mixing using water.
Animal Color Sorting with Montessori Color Tablet
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Vito is 34 months old.
We started off our color exploration activity by sorting out some of Safari Toob animals using our Montessori Color Tablets (set 2). Actually, it was Vito who gave me the idea. He keeps on identifying the colors of the animal figures and he would match it to the color of his shirt. With this in mind, I realized that that we have a bunch of Safari Toob figures and it would be nice to sort them out as Vito loves the figures tremendously.
Color Tints and Shades for Preschoolers
Friday, September 23, 2016
Preschool Letter A
Monday, September 19, 2016
This was the week that Vito wasn’t in the mood to work on any letter activity. Yes, it happens. You can see the result of it in his work, which you will see when you scroll down. But anyway, I just wanted to share these activities and the materials we used so you will know where to get some alphabet sheets resources.
Autumn Nature Finds and How We Use Them
Saturday, September 17, 2016
We’ve been blessed with a beautiful weather last week. It’s actually pretty warm and sunny for September in Ireland which is quite unusual. So I grabbed the opportunity to walk the boys everyday and collect nature objects. We placed them in a basket and displayed it on the shelf for exploration and learning.
Toddler Activity Trays (34 Months)
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Pre-reading Using Montessori Language Objects
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Without much further ado, here’s my collection of objects which I started collecting 5 years ago.
Cork Stamping Art: Trees in Autumn
Monday, September 12, 2016
What is Montessori “Cards and Counters”?
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Vito is 34 months.
“Cards and Counters” is a Montessori math activity that introduces the child to the units of quantity. This is to reinforce the sequence in numbers (one to ten) and to give the child a visual experience of quantity.
Vito loves to count. He counts pictures, objects and anything that interests him. So for his preschool math, I decided to give him a jumpstart on cards and counters. Take a look at the different ways we explore counting using Autumn-themed objects.
Magnetic Alphabet Sorting Activity and Sensorial Play
Monday, September 5, 2016
I couldn’t resist getting these magnetic letters from Early Learning Center because they were on sale and its the only magnetic set I found that’s using the Sassoon font (text standard in UK and Ireland). With these on hand, I set-up a sorting activity of letters for Vito.
Preschool Letter R
Sunday, September 4, 2016
We started our preschool unit with letter R and I divided the activities into two: (1) phonological awareness and (2) pre-writing. The pre-reading activities is scheduled on Mondays and pre-writing on Tuesdays. Vito does no more than 20 minutes of “school” per day. The rest of the activities, Vito considers it as “game” or “play”. During “school” time, I would quit the activities once I see that he’s bored or not interested. My experience has taught me that it’s not about the quantity of activities that I give to my kids that matter. In fact, they get tired so easily and bored when I do that. Especially with Vito, I learned that I should do things slowly with him, and that I should respect and follow his own timeline of learning. Mavi was different, he absorbs anything… he’s always interested, Vito is very choosy.
Going back, this week we’re starting with the letter R. Vito can name the letters of the alphabet if he’s in the mood so I decided that I should be giving him pre-reading activities so he won’t get bored. Below are some of the activities this week for pre-reading and pre-writing.
Rocks and Minerals Learning Activities for Kids (with Free Cards)
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Activity Trays for 33 Month Old Toddlers
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Activity Using Our Water Cycle Learning Pack
Monday, August 15, 2016
FREE Printables for Alphabet Learning Sheets
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Hi everyone! I’m often asked in my Instagram account on where I get our printed learning materials for learning letters (letter recognition and pre-writing) so I’m going to share with you the links of my sources here as it’s difficult to do that in IG.
Teaching Toddlers How Plants Grow
Friday, August 12, 2016
Growing Watercress with Kids at Home
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
For the second week of August, we’re learning about plants! So to start with, the boys and I grew watercress at home and they totally love it! Another activity that is suited for siblings! Take a look at how Vito and Mavi worked on this together.
Montessori Shelves Organization for Small Spaces
Monday, August 8, 2016
For this month of 12 Months of Montessori Series, I’m sharing our simple shelves organization at home. I’m sharing our set-up at home and what works for us.