Dr. Suess and Being A Great Me!
March 1-5, 2010
Letter of the Week: Qq
Number of the Month: 7
Shape of the Month: Trapezoid
Color of the Month: Green
Nursery Rhyme: Little Boy Blue
· At the sensory/art table, we have green play-doh, salt tray, and nature box.
· At the paint easel, we have green paint and green DOT paint.
· On the practical life shelf, we have lock puzzle, lock and key, tonging, lacing, , sorting pom-poms by color, sorting quilts by size, transferring with a dropper.
· On the art shelf, we have a cat in the hat tracing sheet, quilt cutting sheet, Qq coloring sheet, Quack coloring sheet, shamrock stickers, shamrocks to glue, 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 and 2 and 3, the brown stair, block tower, and knobless cylinders, fabric box, and baric tablets.
· On the geometry shelf, we have the circle, triangle, square, and rectangle puzzle, and the constructive triangles. We have geometric shape cards. There is also a geoboard, shape sorter, and geometric solids, pattern blocks, and a shape game. We are also working on the geometric cabinet trays 8-10.
· On the letter shelf, we have sandpaper letters (lower case and upper case) alphabet cards, and leap frog letters. We also have objects, cards, and books for Pp and Qq.
· On the language shelf, we have CVC cards with middle letter “a”, picture cards with CVC words with middle letter “a” to match, calendar matching, and winter letter words. I also have the Bob books – Set A (easy reader books) on the shelf. There is also a flannelboard story (Quack, Quack) on the shelves and the farm.
· On the writing shelf, we are working on the trapezoid shape with the metal insets. We also have dry erase writing, letter stamping, magnadoodle, and CVC cards with middle letter “a” to spell with the moveable alphabet. We also have the number 7, the letter q and q word letter tracing sheets.
· On the science shelf, there is bird puzzle, bird books, bird cards and bird coloring sheets and the flower puzzle, flower books, flower cards and flower coloring sheets. We will be doing the fish and the root soon.
· On the geography shelf, there are the continent globe, sandpaper continent cards, the sand and water globe and the continent map puzzle. We have continent 3 part matching cards, and continent coloring sheets. We started the Asia continent box with Asia cards and Asian animals.
· On the math shelf, we have sandpaper numbers, number puzzle, number rods, number matching, spindles, and shamrock counting activities. We are starting more Montessori math activities this month.
· What we are reading: Cat in the Hat, Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish, Two Fish, A Bad Case of the Stripes, The Mixed Up Chameleon, Quack, Quack, and Chrysanthemum.
Sweetie working on the Bead Matching Activity.
Wiggles working on the dry erase letter Ss. Sheet from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
Wiggles doing a turtle counting activity from Confessions of a Homeschooler
Wiggles doing another turtle activiy - this time it is the turtle color matching activity from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
Sweetie working on the block tower alone
Sweetie and Super working on the brown stair and the block tower
A trapezoid - our shape of the month
Making a rainbow book - cover is from
Back Cover by Super
Wiggles working on the Shape Puzzles
Working with Pink Cards with
Wiggles working on the Rainbow
Making a small book - 
Spunky working with the Sensory Tub.
We were study P is for Percussion in the M is for Music book, and so the homeschoolers created a kitchen band. The younger homeschoolers also created their own band, but I didn't get pictures. Scooter is playing the beaters, and Flower is playing the spoons against the wavy cutter.
Flower playing the "strings"
Ellie showing her Montessori Grammar Bingo card. This activity was a big hit.
Helper and Flower showing their cards.
Scooter playing Bingo
And the homeschoolers aren't always busy doing schoolwork. Sometimes we are busy with "practical life" work too. Here is Jellybean getting Smiley down for her nap. 
This student is actuallyusing a straberry huller to transfer the roses onto the paint palette. The box was from a small box of chocolates. I got the idea for this activity last year from My Montessori Journey.
Making Art with foam art stickers, heart doilies, glue, crayons, and markers.
Making a bracelet out of beads and pink chenille stems.
Cutting out hearts. The students loved this activity.
Jelly Bean painting flowers with watercolors
Helper painting flowers with watercolors
It isn't uncommon to see a little dancing during work time
And it usually makes me smile to see it
Our masks that we used while reading The Mitten.
Tonging "snowballs"
I got this Snowman Pre-Writing sheet from
Looking at a Dover Sticker book about
Working on Opening/Closing
Working with the Nature Box.
Painting with red paint at the easel.
Using hearts instead of spindles
Sorting by Color
There was one day that the homeschoolers helped teach the toddlers and preschoolers down in the preschool area. Here is Scooter helping Little Boy.
Princess and Super working with blocks.
Little Boy and Sweetie Drawing.
Super matching up the lower case and uppercase.
Working on matching the snowmen - small, medium, large
Writing a "k"
Doing Bead Sequencing
Retelling the Snowman story using the felt board
Working on the language objects for "k" and "l"
Drawing - a favorite activity for all the preschoolers
Using The Letter Stamps
Working With Dominoes
