First writing

M. is doing very well with her letters. She is keen in taking the Montessori sandpaper letters and passing her fingers on the one she knows indipendently. Now there are just a couple of letters left to discover and then she will know the whole alphabet! The most wonderful thing is that I do not force her to learn the letters, she is actually interested in learning them, she actively seek to learn more letters and to memorize better the ones she already knows. When we are out and about she keeps on calling me because she has spotted some letters she recognizes!

This morning I prepare for her a fun way to draw her first letters. Floor and fingers

Montessori time

M. is getting to know her letters, we use the sand paper letters to memorize each letter using eyes and touch, and then she has to say the sound of it.
Now she is proud to show me each and every letter she recognizes on bill boards, shops signs, neswpaper, books and every where.
Since she is very confident in some letters, I started to use the movable alphabet with her. I use a tool box to put in each space a few magnetic letters, and some small toys she has to guess the letter they start with.
With some help she is enjoying doing it. (she is doing it in her mother's toungue)





We are also keep on re-visiting the sand paper numbers, even if now she is quite confident in all the numbers to 10. She is now doing the exercise indipendently.



M. is also doing counting with the spindle box and the other materials




Here is she using the blue rods and put them in order from the longest to the shortest

colour gradation

the first exercise is to match the colours contained in a box. The colours are: pink, red, white, orange, yellow, black, grey, green, blue, purple and brown.








The second exercise is the colour gradiation. This is an exercise in which the child has to put in a series colours from the darkest to the lighest or vice versa. The colours are: red, pink, orange, yellow, green, grey, purple, blue and brown and are contained in separate box from the matching colours box.
In doing this exercise the child will learn the names of the different tonalities of a colour and to identify dark, dull, light and bright colours.

puppets

This is a nice creative activity!

Materials:

a few wooden old style pegs
woobly eyes
pipes cleaners
crepe peper
other creative materials of your choice
glue


stick eyes to a peg and dress it as you like using the materials.
You can then make your own stage and act a play using your human pegs

Montessori materials DIY

This page is dedicated to my uncle and my aut who really help me a great deal making those beautiful materials. Thanks to their ideas, creativity and genious we can now have those expensive materials made spending pennies!

Thanks also to my mum that bear with my creative impulses, my mess and everything else while staying at her home. Thanks also to my dear friend G. who lend me a great deal of books on Montessori method.


SENSORIAL MATERIALS

boards of rough and smooth



rough gradiation tablets






fabric box 1 (different colours fabrics)




fabric box 2 (same colour fabrics)





long rods





geometric solids





LANGUAGE


sandpaper letters low case and upper case





MATH

number rods





numerals and counters

summer fruits

As soon the sun comes out we go for lovely walks in the meadows and woods. We collect blackberries and flowers.
Here some flower-arrangements M. did.







Those are our tomatoes!

pasta necklace

Here is a nice activity to spend the afternoon.

Get a few different pasta shapes the ones you can put through a string (penne, rigatoni, anellini etc)
a couple of strings
paint and brushes
old paper or card board to put the pasta to dry


1.Put an apron on
2. get your paint and brushes out
3. take one pasta shape and paint it any colour you like



4. put it to dry on the paper
5. do the same for all the other shapes



6. once the pasta is dry put it in a container
7. use it as pearls to make a beautiful and colourful necklace
8. you can then put the pasta back in the container and use it again and again as a practical life activity