Montessori Monday

It doesn't seem like Bear touched the Montessori shelves much this past week.

We've been doing more make-believe playing or playing with J-jo.  He's at an age where he needs a little bit more interaction and directed stimulation than before.  It makes the whole preschooling-at-home thing difficult.  I really don't know how other moms do it!

We also tried to use J-jo's nap time for art a lot more this week.

 

 We were at JoAnn's during our tree week and somehow Bear managed to convince me that she "needed" this Toob of trees.  So we used the trees while playing with her train, but also tried to sort them according to shape.

I tried to encourage Bear to do the stereognostic bag a few times.  Here she's matching fabrics (without looking).  The fabrics each have distinctive feels to them.

We did a few activities with frogs (from Target a few months back).  We counted them, matched them, counted by twos with them, and reviewed odd and even numbers.

 

 Bear did a lot of pouring of rice this week and at one point she wanted to pour it into her scale.  I used this as a teachable moment and we weighed the rice properly using the weights.

Bear is completely into measuring EVERYTHING!.  She walks around my husband's measuring tape and is constantly saying, "Let me measure (insert name of object here)."