The School Corner

Reading

 Bear was bored of the cvc words, so I gave her slightly harder words to work on.  She is blending much better and only needs my help (she sounds out fine but then needs to hear me say the sounds together) on rare occasions.  She still isn't showing much interest in reading a book aloud, but loves these matching games.  These cards are from My Montessori Journey.

We pulled out the Poor Man's Spinny Speller and here she is telling you she just made the word "hat."

Pre-Writing

Bear has been writing words using her foam letters and this makeshift moveable alphabet - they are cardstock letters I found on clearance in January at Target.

Fine Motor Skills

I saved an empty Children's Tylenol bottle and filled it with blue water.  I drew dots on wax paper and Bear has to drop one drop per dot.  It's a very challenging task that she does well with.  It requires a lot of concentration.  We've done this variation  before.

Tweezing pompoms with chopsticks.

Using the Montessori geometric cabinet as stencils.  She went through all 6 drawers this day and drew each shape.  That's almost 36 shapes!

Math

Matching geometric solids to their face cards.

Matching number tiles to the number rods.

Making patterns.

Telling time.  She matched the hands to the clocks on the sheet.

Art

 Making birthday cards.  

Fly swatter painting (I'll be posting about this separately).  We also did splatter painting, which will also be a separate post.

 

Culture (Geography, Science and History)

Playing with our continents cube.

Revisiting our tree and adding leaves to it.

To see what others are doing in preschool see Homeschool Creations.