Deciduous Forest Food Web and Food Chains Learning Resources

Presenting our Deciduous Forest Food Web and Food Chains Learning resource.  This packet is part of our  Food Web Biome Bundle Pack.  The bundle contains 10 sets of food web activities in the 10 biomes around the world, namely: Arctic, boreal forest, deciduous forest, desert, mountain, ocean, pond, rainforest, savanna and tundra.  This post gives you a glimpse of our Deciduous packet.

Transportation Activity Trays for Young Toddler - 20 months

Max is obsessed with buses and trucks, and while he's at it, I decided to prepare simple activity trays following the success of our Valentine's Day Trays weeks ago. 

Montessori Work at 19 Months

Montessorish work of Max at 19 months.  

He's rounding off all the items we have int he shelf EVERY MORNING thus he tends to master the activities in no time (this means frequent material rotation).  Anyway, feel free to bookmark this page if you find this inspiring and your reference.

Christmas Mega BUNDLE Upgrade!

 Hello everyone!! As you all know, I've been upgrading my mini and mega bundles. This means I'm adding more hands-on printable activities for you and the little ones without extra cost. Just redownload your copy to access the additional activities.  Below you will find some of the activities I added to my Christmas Mega BUNDLE.

Montessori Friendly Toys for 9 Months Old

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Max is turning 10 months old in the next few days, and I'm sharing the developmental toys he loves at 9 months.

  

Easter Eggs Letter and Number Cards

Our Easter Egg Letter and Number Cards set is now up in our shop, ready for you to enjoy and use in your thematic activities this Lent and Easter season!

Animal Characteristics (Vertebrates) Learning Pack

Introducing our Animal Characteristics (Vertebrate) Pack with tons of activity sets that will suite your young students' needs.  This learning material is more than just sorting or matching activities.  What we have in this learning pack are realistic illustrations of each characteristics for better retention of concepts and tons of hands-on learning opportunities for young students to work on.  This Montessori Vertebrate Characteristics learning pack was basically designed for children ages 5 years and older.

With this learning material, your students will be able to learn the characteristics of amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish, and birds through visual representation and hands-on activities.  There are 8 characteristics provided for each animal for you to explore.

St. Patrick's Day Preschool Mini Unit

I'm so excited to share our St. Patrick's Day Mini Unit!!!  I am delighted to hear that you are enjoying all of our Mini Unit series and Full Preschool Centers! We have been developing these activities for years, ever since my eldest child was in preschool. However, I did not share the printables in the shop back then. Now, I am thrilled to be able to share them with you so that you can enjoy the benefits of these resources too.

I am pleased to present our St. Patrick's Day Mini Unit, packed with enjoyable and stimulating activities for preschoolers, pre-k, and kindergarten children. This package includes various activities to help your child practice fine motor skills, alphabet tracing, hands-on math, and more! If you want more St. Patrick's Day-themed materials, please visit our website by clicking here.

Learning About Sharks for Kids

Vito has been really interested in sharks lately.  We had some Shark Unit Study (Montessori Inspired Shark Study for Kids) years ago together with my eldest, but Vito was so young then that all he could ever do was do some simple matching activity with our Safari Toob Sharks.  Now that he's a bit older, I prepared some simple activities for him to learn more about sharks, what's their difference with whales, and how similar are they to humans.

Collection of Winter Books for Kids

Christmas books are back in storage, and winter books are out for us to explore! Here are some of the books we own and will read throughout this winter.

Our Collection of Autumn Books

I have a growing list of autumn books which I’d like to share with you.  This is a collection of fiction and non-fiction books, so they are perfect for kids of all ages.  We read them day and night these days to understand and appreciate this beautiful season!

Back to School Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Materials

School is just around the corner and I have prepared a COMPLETE back to school set that you will totally love!  All activities that you need to get your kids and students to be in the mood for exploring, learning, and practicing their fine motor skills are included in this set of preschool activities.  There are 30 activities in this set, all engaging and encourages hands-on learning.  I am sharing a few activities here so you will have a better idea of what you will be expecting from our BACK TO SCHOOL PACK.

Preschool Learning Zoo Unit Pack

I am so happy to share our Zoo Preschool Literacy and Preschool Math Learning Materials with you. Like our popular Ocean Unit Preschool Learning Materials, our Zoo Unit also contains 30 fantastic and engaging learning activities that your little ones will definitely love!  Below are some of the activities that Vito worked on early this month to give you an idea of what learning activities can be done with these unique materials.

Learning Number Bonds with Ten Frames

Years ago, I made a post about number bonds and how my eldest used it at home to learn basic addition.  And now I’m working with it again with Vito, my almost 5 years old boy.  Months ago, he discovered the joy of adding numbers using his fingers so we started with basic addition using the Montessori Addition board.  He got tired with it quite a bit so I introduced number bonds.

World Continents Activity Using Playdough

We’ve done a lot of world continents activities for the past years but this has got to be one of the boys’ favorites!  We had so much fun forming the continents with our playdough.  This is such a lovely learning activity not just about continents but a fun way to keep those little fingers at work, promoting hand-eye coordination and concentration.

Water Cycle Activities for Preschoolers

Rainy season can be a good time to introduce the water cycle to your child. Here are a few tips, resources, and activities on how to start.

Dinosaur Excavation Activity

I have a spare dinosaur excavation kit which I kept for years, waiting for Vito to be old enough to work on it.  Well, that time finally arrived and I gave it to him so he’ll experience what it’s like to be an archaeologist, even for a day.  Here’s a pretend play of how scientists are able to put up dinosaur bones in the museums!

Life Cycle Activities for Kids

Life cycles have fascinated my kids throughout the years. We often worked on them during springtime, but I would sometimes add them in our animal or plant studies too.  I’m often asked how do I introduce this subject area to my kids and I would always say that it really depends on their age and interest. For the young ones, it’s all about play-based learning and storytelling.  While for older kids, they are drawn towards the details and the science behind them.

To give you an idea, here’s our progressive way of learning the life cycles.

Montessori Inspired Space Themed Learning Activities

We are moving to new things this week as Vito’s interest is starting to be directed more about his body and senses.  For the past few weeks, we’ve been doing work about the moon, the planets, and space.  Here’s a roundup of our activities in learning about the solar system and space in general (in no particular order).

Hands-on Learning of Constellations for Preschoolers

Vito and I were exploring constellations earlier this week as we were reading about the Big Dipper.  He was fascinated that I extended our activity into pin poking to recreate the formation of the stars (constellations).