Leaves are falling all around!
October 12-16, 2009
Letter of the Week: Bb
Number of the Month: 2
Shape of the Month: Triangle
Color of the Month: Blue
• At the sensory/art table, we have blue play-doh.
• At the paint easel, we have blue paint.
• On the practical life shelf, cutting food, sorting spiders, tonging pumpkins, pouring pumpkins.
• On the art shelf, we have a pumpkin color page, and then our free art supplies (paper, cardstock, construction paper, scissors, crayons, markers, pencils, tape, glue, stapler, and paper punch.)
• On the sensorial shelf, we have color tablets 1, the brown stair, block tower, and knobbed cylinder A and B.
• On the geometry shelf, we have the triangle puzzle. There is also pattern blocks, geoboard, shape sorter, and geometric solids.
• On the letter shelf, we have sandpaper letters (lower case and upper case) alphabet cards, and leap frog letters.
• On the language shelf, we have the Red Language work, fall sequence cards, calendar matching, and fall letter words.
• On the writing shelf, we are working on the triangle shape with the metal insets. We also have dry erase writing, letter stamping, letter tracing, magnadoodle, and moveable alphabet.
• On the science shelf, there is mammal puzzle – horse, plant puzzle – tree, and land and water cards.
• On the geography shelf, there are the continent globe and the sand and water globe and the continent map puzzle.
• On the math shelf, we have sandpaper numbers, number puzzle, number bears, bead matching, fraction puzzles, spindles and seasonal counting activities.
• We are reading Leaf Season, Clifford Loves Autumn, Leaf Rubbings, and The Fall Festival.
Working on play-doh on the new Halloween mat
Building a tower
Working on Columbus hats
This little guy is new this week, and he has a couple favorites. One of them is this counters and cards activity that I got from My Montessori Journey.
Playing with the farm. Did I post about how I got this Melissa & Doug's wooden farm at the thrift store this summer for $5???? What a deal!
This is the new boy's other favorite activity. I'm not sure what exactly he is doing, besides just lining the bears up, but he really enjoys it.
Cutting food. One of Super's favorite activities.
A 3 year old, new this semester using the knobbed cylinders. She did, after this picture was taken, realize that something wasn't right, and managed to get all of them in the correct order.
Using Color Box 1
Working with the Block Tower. This student is 4.5 years old, and definitely has mastered this activity, but she still gets it out fairly often. She also enjoys doing extensions with the block tower.
Putting the Brown Stair back on the shelf.
Starting to put the leaves in numerical order. I got this idea from My Montessori Journey also, although I got my leaves at the Target $1 spot instead of Hobby Lobby.
Spider sorting by color. This idea was inspired by the What DID we Do All Day? blog.
