Bear still enjoys the cylinder blocks. She likes to do two blocks at a time and has a long way to go before mastering this particular work, but the challenge keeps her going. Her favorite is still the fourth block. She likes to purposely stick the short cylinders in the deepest holes and then turn the whole block upside down to recover the cylinders. I have been letting her do this as I figure her desire to do this must be driven by something.
Some other sensory and practical life activities we have done include
One to one correspondence with buttons and the heart ice cube tray.
I finally got her some of those bath shape things. She used the eye dropper to fill each suction cup. She also used the tweezers to transfer pony beads onto each suction cup.
A matching game with some geometric solids. She knows cube, rectangular prism, cylinder, ovoid, hemisphere, and sphere.
A blurry shot of her sliding foam hearts into a slit in a container. She still loves to do these simple activities.
Lining up buttons on popsicle sticks. We had done this with flat marbles before.
Math
Sorting buttons and then counting them and labeling the sets with the correct number. She recognizes her numbers most of the time now.
Language/Geography/Culture
Aside from reading books everyday and looking at the globe and US map every now and then, nothing really. Eventually, when I have a printer, I'll be printing out lots of three-part cards. I had plans to take out the farm animals and build words again like last week, but it didn't happen.
Baby Montessori
J-jo is 6 months old and now enjoying pulling things out of baskets. I will soon be placing common household objects into various baskets around the house for him, for us to talk about as he plays and discovers them.
And he's pretty much crawling now and I totally have to figure out how we are going to play with itty bitty things without him finding them on the floor.
And he's pretty much crawling now and I totally have to figure out how we are going to play with itty bitty things without him finding them on the floor.
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oh yes the baby is a challenge when they are crawling.....then all of sudden you are trying to keep them out of the shelves hehehe...it's all fun though.
ReplyDeleteLily would love some Montessori baskets like those! I'll have to set some up around the house.
ReplyDeleteAnd let me know if you come up with a great way to deal with a mobile baby and tiny pieces - Lily is getting into things just weeks after Johnny finally stopped putting tiny things in his mouth...
some great ideas. Finally I know where to get those things with suction caps. Bath stick on things!! Thank you.
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It's awesome that J-jo gets to participate in some of his own activities. Now the whole new challenge starts, but soon he will join his big sister for real.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I love the idea of putting a drop in each suction cup. How cool is that?
ReplyDeleteJust Great!! I Love your Montessori Monday (week)!!, I will make the one with the drop in each suction cup!!!! That's a SUPER idea!! I Love it!! Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteI really need to find some of those suction cup things that every one except me has. :) They look like a lot of fun! I'm always so happy to read your posts - your activities are really do-able with not a lot of set up time and yet they hold Bear's interest. Thanks for sharing all of this! J-jo is so cute in that picture! I loved just sitting and admiring M's little back when he sat up to play like this! Such a precious time...
ReplyDeleteFabulous ideas!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to Montessori Monday! I love all the pink/red for Valentine's Day. :)
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ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about babies and tiny things! My baby boy is 7 months old and started crawling about a month ago, while his 2 year-old sister is very much into all things tiny right now. I try to limit activities with tiny parts to our kitchen counter where she can sit on a bar stool while he freely explores the kitchen floors (He's jsut figured out that he can open and unpack some of the bottom drawers. But I have to stay quite vigilant to watch for litte things taht she may drop.