The "School" Corner

Practical Life

 

  

 

spooning

pouring

spreading 

cutting

Sensorial
 

knobless cylinders

The cylinders were placed on this "caterpillar" I drew.  She loved building the caterpillar.

cylinder blocks

Bear takes out her cylinder blocks daily. (You can see it here in action, but this isn't my Bear; it's just to give you an idea of how much thinking goes on to accomplish this. ) She is even doing the fourth block which is quite challenging.

 

 

feel and find

We focus on just a few shapes at a time.  She wants to look and find and not feel and find right now, so I actually have her find them through the material as opposed to sticking her hand in the bag.

 

playdough 

 We made bread dolls out of playdough a while back.  This week, Bear has been playing with her cousin and they've been making cakes with their abuelo (grandfather).

Language

moveable alphabet work

I like to show Bear how we use letters to build words, even though she isn't quite ready to build them herself.  With prompting she can tell me the ending sounds, but not the middle sound yet.  We need to do more vowel work.

We did this particular work before everyone woke up one morning as I sipped a cup of tea.  It was nice to have super quiet time together.

My moveable alphabet is actually sturdy scrapbooking letters from the dollar spot at Target.  I bought a few packs and we can build lots of words.  I just need a way to store them now.

Reading

I try to read to her and her cousin before lunch each day. We went back to storytime.  I had a proud mommy moment seeing how well Bear sat focused on the stories the librarian was reading. 

 

beginning sound sorts

(This photo is when we were still in Costa Rica.)

 

stencils 

This fits into more than one category, but I was thinking prewriting and stuck it with the language stuff.  Inspite of all the activities we do to practice the pincer grasp, Bear insists on a fist grasp when holding a writing instrument.  I had just asked her to hold her pencil correctly before taking the picture. These are yogurt lids.

Math
 

This was inspired by Sid the Science Kid this morning.  It was an episode on making charts, so we grabbed a handful of pattern blocks and sorted them, then I drew her a chart.  She loved this extension of the episode.

 

Montessorians use the farm to teach grammar.  So I thought, why not use it to teach math too:)  We were sorting farm animals and using the Gaddy Nipper crayons we won to count them.  The photo is blurry because I am teaching Bear to use the camera and she took this picture.

 

We ordered our hearts using the number line.

Geography

 

  

 

Continent work and enjoying our favorite garden in Costa Rica (this was last week the day before we flew.) These beautiful ox carts are hand painted and were once used to haul coffee to the ports.

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