We are carving a pumpkin this week so we also worked on our letter P activities!
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Showing posts with label homeschooling. Show all posts
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
Montessori Geography Folders
Monday, October 9, 2017
When I was preparing geography lessons for Mavi years ago, I learned about the importance of Geography Folders. Essentially, these are folders filled with pictures from your home country or continent as well as from other continents. The pictures should depict people engaging in daily life activities, landmarks, food, animals, children, homes, transportation, and villages, if any. Geography Folders are especially useful for studying your continent as they introduce your child to other races, cultures, places, and traditions.
FREE Letter S Dot and Tracing Activity Sheets
Monday, October 2, 2017
Hands-on Learning on Animal Habitats for Preschool
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Last week, Vito and I revisited world biomes and animal habitats as we were talking about the fact that not all places in the world have forest whose leaves turn into yellow or orange. This discussion led to a series of presentation of the world’s biome like desert, rainforest, taiga etc. Our printable from the shop was very handy when I presented this Vito because of the pictures, and he was very interested on the animals living on each biome.
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!
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.
Anatomy of a Frog 3D Model
Thursday, September 14, 2017
We love our shark anatomy model (read about it here, Montessori Inspired Shark Study for Kids) so I couldn’t resist getting the frog dissection 3D model for another exploration. I introduced this educational material when were doing our Frog Unit a few weeks ago. This anatomy model was intended for my oldest son, but Vito enjoyed learning about it too!
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.
Learning Addition Using Montessori Stamp Game
Thursday, September 7, 2017
The Montessori Stamp Game is one of our favourite math materials at home. This learning material can be used in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. And for us, this is how Mavi learned how to understand the concept of regrouping (dynamic addition). He enjoyed this material more than any other methods of learning addition and subtraction.
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
How I Organize Our Montessori Inspired Learning Space at Home
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
We are back from our vacation, and after settling, the boys and I decided to clean up and organize our shelves for homeschooling 2017-2018. Now, we have a tiny space, just one for our homeschool, and nothing fancy. I ensure that our learning space is clean, well-ventilated, well-lighted, and conducive to learning. To those who want to know more about how I organize our materials in this small space, allow me to give you a walkthrough!
First Great Lesson (4): Study of Elements and the Periodic Table
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
The kids and I worked on the periodic table a few weeks before our vacation. We did this years ago, and Mavi was excited to work on this activity again. This is a continuation of our Great Lessons, and if you are new to this post, you can revisit the first and second parts of the activities here: (1) Experiments on the Laws of the Universe and (2) The Volcano.
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