Montessori Monday/ Toddler Tuesday

We are getting very, very close to normalization!! I am like a kid holding their tongue out waiting for the snowflake to fall on it. I know everything happens on their time, I'm just saying.
                                                         
                                                        Practical Life

                                Dry pouring with buttons.

Reviewing how to properly brush our teeth. Painting with a toothbrush.

                               Pin pinching North America.

                                 Using pincer grasp to transfer marbles.

                                           Scissor practice.

                                        Sweeping up her mess.

                               Scissor practice with play doh.

                                                                     

                                     Language

                                Learning  rooms of the house with furniture objects.

                                     Independently practing writing letters.

                                                                     
                          Sorting objects by beginning sounds.

                        Matching letters to pictures by beginning sounds puzzle.

                                                                 
                                                   Mathematics/Sensorial

                                                Cylinder block #1

                                              Working with red basket.

                                    Blue Constuctive Triangles work.

                                       Doing a brown stair extension work.

                                           Color box #2.

                                    Brown stairs with marble extension.

                              Matching numbers to number line.

                                   Geoboard with geometric cabinet cards.

                                                                                  
                              
                                                                   Cultural

                                           World puzzle map puzzle.

                            Working with Tag United States map.

Rock and shell sort work.

                                                                            
       Lil brought in her treasured rock she found for Show and Tell.           
                                  

                                                                          
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Toddler Tuesday

Last week it was a " Monkey see, Monkey do '" week for the toddlers. Having the advantage of working alongside children older then them is paying off big time for them. They try new works and really are impressive  with their capabilities.

                                             Favorite books of the week

                                                                             
                                                    Parts of the horse puzzle.

                                            Parts of the frog puzzle.
                                    

                                                                            

Working with the sand tray sensorially. This work kept him occupied for more than twenty minutes.

                                                   Pouring bells.

                                                        Hammering with nails.

                                     Folowings directions: Go in and out of the bears' den.

                                                                       Hammering.

                                                                   Quietly reading.

                                                                               
                                                           New on the Shelf

                                                     Matching objects to pictures in a book.
  

                                                                   
                                                                   Count and Sort.

                                                                               
To see other toddlers enjoying montessori inspired activities pop over to One Hook Wonder.

Toddler Tuesday

 Another lovely week with the toddler gang. To be honest I am forgetting about this whole age thing. They enjoy themselves so much here that they are always" Eager Beavers". You ought to here them when they ask me to show them a new lesson, it is music to my ears.

Here are the covers of the toddlers three favorite books last week. They especially liked The Gingerbread Family, it is a scratch n' sniff book.

                                                                               
                                           Some of  their accomplishments......
    
                                     Coloring. Happys' favorite past time.
  

 
                                   Using clothespins to hang stockings.

                                         Coloring in the lines!!

                                            Spooning.

                                        Sorting colors.

                        Happy got this off the shelf and did a fine job with this puzzle.

                                         Matching socks.

                                                                        
 Here are some other activities that they often worked with that wasn't captured on camera while they were working with them.

                                
                    Matching objects to pictures and learning some spanish along the way.

 Matching pictures to shadows. They are really good at this, I plan to trim around the pictures some more to add more of a challenge.

                                                                         
                                              Size sorting.
      

                                                                                  
To see other toddlers learning inspired by the montessori method pop over to One Hook Wonder.
                                                      

Toddler Tuesday

Finding works are not hard for them to do. They are very focused on their tasks at hand. Enjoy!

                              Peeling stickers and then putting them on paper.

                                  Extending this work with some writing.

                         Working with a shape puzzle.

                         
                              Pushing circles out of foam to make a craft.

              
                    This latchboard is still a favorite.

                          
                        Matching the planet objects to the picture.

                           Putting pegs in the hole.

                                             The Pink tower.

                                        Shadow matching puzzle.

                                                                                    
 To see other toddlers learning the montessori way please visit One Hook Wonder.