Here’s one of my bestseller files, the Vertebrate Sorting Cards! Mavi loves using the files to create a chart of vertebrate animals. Six animal pictures for each animal classification.
You can also use animal figures for this. Our animal figures were from Schleich and Safari Toobs
See how Mavi put all of these into action.
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Here’s my presentation of the landform cards. Although this was not the first time Mavi encountered the cards, he was more than excited to use our new Montessori materials because this time, it has textures! Plus, it helped that we have this Learning Resources Transportation counters to use with our cards! You can get this from any Montessori shop or from Amazon. (Mine is from Tower High learning)
I created the description cards that you see in the photo. I love doing this and let Mavi read :) It is my way of letting him practice reading, not just in books.
Now the transportation counters helped a LOT in my presentation. It helped me demonstrate where’s the land and water in the cards. Such a perfect tool for visual presentation!
And they are so cute! They’re really worth-it! 
Here’s the 6 landform materials (out of 8). Aren’t they so beautiful?
We’ll do more of this in the coming weeks as we explore countries and continents via Five in a Row. Hope you like this post!
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I can barely take photos of Vito doing activities these days as my hands are also too busy being involved with it. So one technique that most blogger Moms do is to take photos ahead of their materials for presentation. I’d like to borrow this technique, but I will try to do my best to take snap shots of Vito doing these activities in action since I still find it cute to post some photos of him LOL.
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Because Easter is just around the corner, we’re doing a few Easter themed activities. This one is a colour matching activity. I got the pail from a local book store and the yellow mini baskets from Dunnes. I am sure that there’s plenty of these at Amazon.
Another activity is the 1:1 correspondence. Vito loves transferring objects and I am sure he’s going to enjoy this one!
New activity this week is the building of blocks! This is an old toy and I got it out for Vito to use. Vito is starting to enjoy stacking the blocks. I torn between getting the pink tower and brown stairs or Melissa and Doug Unit Blocks.
We love our Giotto Bebe finger paints! It has NO SMELL AT ALL and SO EASY TO WASH! I came across this brand when we were staying in Belgrade and I fell in love with it instantly. Their finger paints are so creamy and Vito loves its vivid colours! And it is sooo easy to remove (and non toxic too!).
And I let him use our Do-a-Dot markers! This is colouring a cross for Lent. We’re taking a break from crayons and pens so I’m letting him use this stamp markers for variation. This he has to practice stamping, not writing as he used to. I have to demonstrate first what to do with it. We’ll be using this a little bit more for practice.
It has been sunny for the past weeks and we’re always outdoors!
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