WORLD PROJECT

This is a huge project I have in mind. It will take time and effort to make but it will teach M. so many things about the world, its geography, people, cultures, animals and other things.
I got the inspiration from a world puzzle I saw in a Montessori classroom, which brought my memories back of when I used to work on it as a young child.
It is so difficult to find a world puzzle or is so expensive, so I thought I could make one using a very cheap poster of the world.
I bought two posters from the 99p shop.

MATERIALS:

2 world posters
utility knife
a thick card board the same size as the posters
glue


1. Start by laying one of the posters over the card-board
2. Keeping the poster firmly still, cut around the borders of every continent, making sure that the utility knife is also cutting through the card board.
3. you should obtain the cut out continents, their exact shape in card board, a world map without continents and a cardboard with empty continents shapes.
4. glue the cut out continents to their card board shapes, and put aside
5. glue the world poster without continents to the card-board, making sure that they perfectly match
6. glue the second poster to the cardboard so that its continents are visiable through the cardboard cut out continents shapes.
7. colour the back of each continents piece with the Montessori world colours (Africa: green; Europe: red; Asia: yellow; Australia: brown; North America: orange; South America: pink)
8. to make the puzzle last longer you could laminate the continents pieces or use sallotape instead.





Once the child is quite confident in putting together the puzzle and can recognize the continents, you can start witht the second part of the project.

ANIMAL WORLD PROJECT

Get lots of pictures of animals living or originated from differnt continents. Stick them on same size card boards.
Colour the back of the card boards with the right colours of the continent the animal belongs (for example tiger:yellow, zebra:green). Some animals can be found in different continents like the wolf or the owl, these while have more then one colour at the back.
At first show your child all the animals, tell him what they are.
Then place each animal on the right continent.
Eventually your child will be able to place all the animals on their right continent. The colours at the back are a control measure where your child will instantly know if he has placed the right animals on the right continent by turning them around and look at their colours.





Next I am planning to do the same thing with pictures of mothers and babies from differnt cultures, then with food and landmarks.