"The hand is the instrument of the mind." - Maria Montessori
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| Making a collage from our pin-pushing shapes - pumpkins. |
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| Introduction to the Decimal System: Golden Beads |
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| Introduction to numbers 11-19: Here, the child has learned 11, 12, and 13. |
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| Creative, self-expression with chalk pastels. |
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| Practical Life: Tweezing plastic spiders, fine-motor development. |
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| Golden Bead materials: The children have counted out the nine units, nine tens, nine, hundres and one thousand. Then, I asked them to bring me a certain quantitiy, i.e. three units, or five tens... on their tray. |
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| This month, the children have been painting with the color orange. Read this previous post about painting with one color. |
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| Free-form shape and pattern exploration with pattern blocks. |
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| A Montessori favorite (and necessity!): Opening and Closing excersice. |
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| Art Card Games: Close Up. The child matches a close up section of a famous piece of art to its full image. |
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| Extension work with the Botany Cabinet: Pin pushing the leaf shape, gluing onto paper, and writing its name. |
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| Exploring concepts of geometry with the first box of Constructive Triangles. Learn more about this material in this post. |
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| Learning to fold with the Folding Cloths. |
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| Practical Life: Polishing Leather - I am always amazed how the children never tire of polsihing lessons...! :-) |
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| Three Part Cards: Continents |
Your pin-pushing activity is so neat and inviting. It seems that your class is one big busy beehive ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a variety of activities ;-)
Have a beautiful week
Hugs Ewa
I fully agree with Ewa!:) I like your pin pushing activity and must do it with my boys too. Thank you for inspiration! You are great!:)
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Thank you so much for the kind words! Our classroom certainly has a distinguished hum of activity... I am enjoying watching the children becoming more comfortable and confident in their choices in the classroom. Pin pushing is definitely a popular activity! Thanks for reading!
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Sasha,
ReplyDeleteI would love to check in with you about the possibility of having Pablo benefit from your program and me sharing my love for Spanish with the kids. I have been very busy so I haven't been able to get in touch with you about this. I was wondering if there is still space for Pablo in your school and if I can contribute by teaching Spanish. Christa
Dear Sasha,
ReplyDeleteI love looking at all your wonderful pictures! They are a terrific springboard to talk with Lilly about her activities during the day with you. She recognizes the pictures that involve her or other lessons she has participated with...
Thank you:)
Stefanie
Christa,
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes! I am looking forward to your visit to our school!
Sasha
Thank you, Stefanie. You have recognized one of the biggest reasons I share information on my blog!!! :) I am so happy that you are able to talk about the school day at home in more detail by looking at the pictures.
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