Have you read the book Caps for Sale? It’s one of our all time favourite classic books in the house! I first heard of it when we were in Singapore, borrowed it from the library and Mavi immediately loved it. Because I love the idea of Five in a Row, I decided to purchase the book so that we can do extension activities over and over again with the book. Now that it’s Vito’s turn, I decided to prepare simple activities to go along with book that are centered around the three objects found in the book: caps, money and monkeys.
Animal Habitats Sorting and Activity Sheets
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Vito is 40 months old.
If you read my post on the 12 Months More of Montessori for Earth Science, Vito and I will be working on animal habitats. We tried this before, in its simplest form when Vito was still a toddler and I decided to move forward into a more abstract approach (with some sensorial activity) now that Vito is older. In this post, I’m going to share the learning materials which the boys are using and the books to go along with our activities.
Teaching Land and Water Forms to Preschoolers Through Play
Friday, March 17, 2017
Vito is 40 months old.
In line with our Earth Science activities, I decided to introduce Vito to land and water forms using the Montessori Sandpaper Land & Water Form Cards and the Safari Toob vehicles (Safari Ltd On the Road TOOB, Safari Ltd In The Sky TOOB, Safari Ltd In The Water TOOB). I came up with this idea because a few weeks ago, Vito was really hooked with our land, water, and air transportation figures from Safari Toobs.
Montessori Inspired Phonics Mystery Bag Game
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Vito is 40 months old.
I’m always in search of new learning games and activities to try with Vito. Vito is quite a challenge. He’s a little bit picky with activities, he always wants it to be interesting, some sort of a game. He is currently in a sensitive period with letters, always singing the song, identifying letters in books, pretending to read words, completing his alphabet puzzles and more. He knows the letter sounds and can identify uppercase and lowercase, so I’m moving forward to phonics and CVC reading practise in our language activities at home. To start with, we are practising how to identify beginning letter sounds of “objects” in picture format. I know, I should be doing objects, but Vito is always distracted with objects. He sees them as toys, not as language learning materials. We don’t get things done whenever I use objects because we end up playing. So I’m sticking with picture cards for now, it’s working on his part. Whenever he sees a picture card, he would name it and emphasize the beginning letter sound. This was our first try, and we’ve been doing this activity occasionally. Lately, I acquired an extra tiny bag from my Stereognostic material and I made use of it in this game. We often use moveable alphabet but Vito insisted to use the Hape Uppercase Puzzle (he loves this puzzle!).
Montessori Inspired Activities for Earth Science
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
I am so excited to share our activity trays for Earth Day! This is in line with our 12 Months More of Montessori Series wherein we are focusing on Earth Science. In this post, I gathered a few topics related to Earth Science, assembled them into tray activities that’s suitable for preschoolers from ages 3 years and older. Hope you enjoy our activities for the coming weeks!
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