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We’ve been learning about the continent Australia! One of our parents brought along some wonderful items from Australia to share with us. Boomerangs! Holding a Koala What’s on the Shelf? Here’s our unit studies shelf with materials about Australia Geography of Australia This is our Australia Geography folder full of images from Australia and the Pacific […]
Last week, I posted about line drawings that my kindergarten students made with oil pastels and watercolor paints. To finish these off, my students glued paper strip lines (folded to make zig zags, curled and pleated) to the bottom of the page. The students reinforced their learning of types of lines and were introduced to paper manipulation techniques. Then, we rolled and stapled them at the top and bottom to create a hanging windsock. A little bit of double stick … Read more... →
A few items from East Asia on our shelves for the children to examine These photo-description cards are from the Asia A-Z Montessori Printables Pack Writing numbers in Chinese Origami fun A simple zen garden found at the dollar store Learning how to make some Chinese and Japanese characters with our Sumi E Board […]
Montessori-inspired Asia learning activities and free printables for kids.
Awesome Elephants! Kindergarten students in Ms. Kerwick's class enjoyed creating fun elephants. They combined art and movement by acting out different body parts of an elephant. Also, they enjoyed learning to make the color grey by mixing black and white. This project was a great way to practice drawing and cutting skills. The students used a sponge brush to paint the elephants. Each student created a pattern at the top and bottom of the paper.
These simple world continent dot marker worksheets make a great fine motor complement to your preschool or kindergarten geography studies. You can use bingo daubers in the traditional Montessori colors to further reinforce your Montessori continent lessons. This set includes 8 continent pages: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania (with the same image as Australia). What you will receive: - One PDF file, size 8.5 by 11 inches - 8 dot marker worksheets with the continents labeled ------------------------------------------------- You may also be interested in these World Continents shadow matching cards: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1393829501/ Or you may like my world continent lacing cards: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1387287416/ ------------------------------------------------- ***Note: This is a DIGITAL product. No physical product will be mailed. You will receive your downloadable files immediately after purchase. These files are for personal or single classroom use only. Please do not share, alter, resell, or distribute the files in any way.***
One of my favorite open ended games to play within my classroom is the game "Which Doesn't Belong." This game not only encourages students with critical thinking skills, reasoning, and but is also great for vocabulary development and encourages students to explain their thinking. How to play? To play the game, students are presented with four pictures. They must select the picture that they think doesn't belong and the most important part is so explain why. It is opened ended so different students may have different answers for what they feel doesn't belong and there are no wrong answer as long as students can explain their reason as to why it doesn't belong. In my classroom, I have used cards that are perfect for kindergarten standards that focus on beginning sounds, rhyming, counting and shapes. Which Doesn't Belong Phonics These cards all have the same beginning sounds. For example, for the letter l card, a student may say that the turtle does not belong, since it does not begin with l. Another student may say that the log does not belong since it cannot walk. For the beginning sound c card, a students may say that the hammer does not belong since it does not begin with the "c" sound. Another student say hammer does not belong since it has 2 syllables, all of the other words only have 1 syllable. I will often takes participate as well, especially when introducing this activity, and model my thinking for selecting a picture. All of these pictures rhyme so students may say that on the bat, cat, pig and hat card, the pig does not belong since that word does not rhyme. Another student may say that the hat does not belong since all of the other pictures are animals or a student may see the color pink in all of the pictures except for the bat so another student may pick the bat. This activity is very open ended and as long as a student can justify their reasoning they are correct! For the card with the ten, hen, pen and tent, one student may pick tent because it does not rhyme. Another student may see yellow in all of the pictures except for the tent and may say that the tent does not belong. I might also model the number of phonemes/ sounds I hear in the word. If I segment, ten, pen, and hen, I would hear 3 sounds but if I segment the word tent, I hear 4 sounds so that would not belong. You may be surprised at all of the different ideas that your students think of and it is a great way to encourage higher level thinking. Which Doesn't Belong Math Your students may also like playing What Doesn't Belong counting game which works great whole group but also is perfect for a math center counting activity. I have included cards with an X symbol over the number for students to select as the number that is not the same to mark their answer as the number that is different, or students can put an x mark over the number that does not belong. Your students may also enjoy Which Doesn't Belong shapes, which provides great practice identifying the names of both 2d and 3d shapes. This game is great to play during morning meeting, at the beginning of math or phonics instruction or whenever you have an extra few minutes in your day. Students could also play independently in centers or it could be a teacher directed small group activity. You can find all of these activities in my Which Doesn't Belong Kindergarten Bundle Or you can find each game individually: Which Doesn't Belong Beginning Sounds, Which Doesn't Belong Rhyming, Which Doesn't Belong Counting Which Doesn't Belong Shapes I hope that you can your students enjoy this game in your classroom.
A great way to introduce your child to continents is to start with North America. Color in the continent and the animals living on it.
Kids will have fun while learning where do I Live with this printable activity perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
I pulled out my Asia storage box a couple of weeks ago and was overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I’ve put in it over the years. I decided it was finally time to get it properly organized. (More thoughts about organizing thematic units here.) Here are the preliminary results! I put a few […]
Number sense is a key skill to develop in the early years. Here in this One More One Less Number Sense Fish Math activity kids use a simple hands-on printable and fish theme manipulatives to practice counting and identifying one more and one less. Just right for preschool and kindergarten!
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
Learn all about China and lots of intesting facts About Chinese culture with these coloring pages! Simply print worksheets!
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
Don't miss these Adorable Kindergarten Worksheets for May. Get the math and literacy practice with the fun of flowers, bugs, and gardens.
Welcome to the Free Resource Library for Montessori, early childhood and lower elementary teachers, parents and educators! I am thrilled to provide you with a curated selection of free printables. […]
This project is relatively simple and takes learning about lines into the third dimension. I posted about this project back in 2013 and it was one of my most popular blog posts. I usually do a line painting project with the kindergartners. This is a great way to learn about types of lines, practice painting with a paintbrush and develop all those great fine motor skills you want the little ones to learn such as gluing and coloring. 1. The … Read more... →
The best kind of kindergarten STEM challenge is one that has children working together to find a solution to a fun, engaging problem using simple supplies that don't take lots of prep time. Enter The Floor is Lava STEM activity for kindergarteners. It's so simple, you can do it with preschoolers too! Don't forget to
I had posted about these projects in progress a couple weeks ago. Here are the finished products!
Set of FREE printable world map choices with blank maps and labeled options for learning geography, countries, capitals, famous landmarks
Wall Art by Gal Pittel on Photocircle.net. Custom formats for a diverse range of products such as posters, aluminium prints, acrylic glass prints, framed prints, canvas, and fine art prints.
FREE Asia Unit Study Resources
In this worksheet there is a crossword. There is also an activity where the students read and follow the instructions (Ex. Colour the t-shirt red) For lower level students you can read out the instructions instead. - ESL worksheets
Printables for toddlers and preschoolers. Alphabet games, Scissor skills pack, Pre-writing & more!
We are LOVING the story of Frederick by Leo Lioni ,which we currently have on loan from the library. Since we've been sick sick sick fo...
