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Our Phonogram Pouch Set is a treasured investment for the classroom. They are designed to go with our Phonogram word cards. Rhonda designed them for longevity and to compliment Montessori teaching principles. Each pouch opens left to right to reinforce the direction in which we read and is lined with green fabric to link to the color used on the cards. Every pouch is handcrafted out of 100% cotton with a button closure to support small motor skills and an intentional work ethic. The set includes 17 pouches with stamps featuring the phonogram. Pouches contain pockets to hold cards in the phonogram series. The natural exterior fabric with the surprise shot of color in the interior creates beauty and order and invites a child to interact with the materials. Interior fabrics vary. CARDS ARE SOLD SEPARATELY, BASKET NOT INCLUDED
One of my most favorite parts of the Montessori Primary classroom is the geography area. In particular, I love the continent boxes. Continent boxes (or drawers, or bags, or folders, depending on your set-up) contain items and pictures from each of the 7 continents on our earth. Each continent has it's own box (or drawer, or bag or folder....you get the idea, right?). My classroom is the newest one in our school and so I am slowly adding materials to it. This coming year I am planning to study each of the continents with the children culminating with Australia which is also our country of the year. I have been garage sale-ing (if that isn't a word, it should be) and have begun putting our boxes (or in my case, drawers) together. I found these drawers at a garage sale last weekend. The colors coordinate with the Montessori world puzzle map. The small box on top is for Antarctica. Not a whole lot of objects from that continent so I think the box will suffice! Here's how it works in the classroom: The child takes two rugs (in the Montessori classroom each child delineates his or her floor workspace with rugs - it helps keep others from stepping on one's work....most of the time) and places them side by side on the floor. The child retrieves the puzzle world map from the map cabinet and places it on the left side of the rugs (we always work left to right since that is the way we read). The child then retrieves the drawer they would like to investigate. Lets say they want to look at the Asia drawer. The child places the Asia drawer to the right of the map. The child places the puzzle piece of Asia under the map so he or she has some idea of the placement of the continent in the world. The child is then free to place all of the items/photos from the Asia drawer onto the rug as he or she looks at them all. This work is usually done by one or two students without much teacher involvement. The teacher can step in to talk with the child about the objects and to give any information in which the child seems interested. However, the learning objective of this activity is just to give the child some hands-on observation of things (people, places, money, dolls, animals, etc.) of one particular continent in our great big world. Maria Montessori (who lived in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century) was a believer in educating the child for peace. She believed that by helping the child learn about the whole world and all that is different and all that is the same, we will help build a more peaceful existence among each other. When I was a child, the only experience I had of the outside world and other countries was in church where we had a 'Junior Missions' program once per month. The only thing I can remember about that program are a few songs! Oh, the power of music. I am thrilled that we can provide much more information to the young child (remember I teach 3-6 year-olds). I know that the children will be thrilled with this new work in the classroom. Their love of knowledge and information is so powerful at this age! Items include an Arabian man and woman, flute from India, Japanese money, and lots of other things. I see now that I have mistakenly put out the papyrus that should be in my Africa drawer! oops, I'll fix that. Above is the photo of the items in my Asia drawer. EVERYTHING in this drawer was either given to me (like the Japanese money) or bought at a garage sale. I'm always amazed at what I can find that other people are discarding. I will continue to search for objects from the continents throughout the summer. Asia is my most full drawer. If anyone has ideas for where I can find other objects from the other continents, please, SHARE!!!
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In order to strengthen our math skills (and because dramatic play is fun), we played a shopping game! We used this fantastic resource from Teachers Pay Teachers. Alternatively, this addition game could be played with real props (cart, play food, register, the works), but for the sake of space this is just fine. Game Play One person is the cashier. The other(s) become the shopper(s). The first mat contains the food price list. The second mat has the foods to choose between. I told our shopper she may pick three to four items for her shopping basket. After the foods have been chosen, the shopper takes them to the check out tray. Then she asks, How much is the ____, and the cashier finds and reads the price from the first mat. My kids, despite many repetitions of the teen boards and nine layouts et al, still need some extra practice with this work. Then the shopper uses the stamp game to build each number. Click the video below to see it in action: [embed]https://www.facebook.com/jenicosmicmontessori/videos/1938241083099497/[/embed] Then the cashier records all the prices (and recounts the tiles -- more practice. Woot). The game proceeds in typical stamp game fashion: put all the units together and see if they need to be exchanged for tens. Puts the tens together to see if we need to bump up to the next place value and so on. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ubksxGCwFg[/embed] This game obviously can be adapted in so many ways. Practice decimal work; use real coins; use golden beads; try larger numbers or more simple values. Start with a set amount and have the kids subtract the value and see how much they have left. Or have them buy 2 vegetables and 3 fruits with whatever money they start with. Use the same item (we're going to use donuts) to show multiplication and division. Use a restaurant, toy shop, or bakery dramatic play set. So many ideas! Happy to have yet another math extension in our repertoire. One of my top homeschool goals for Josie is real world math. Think we are off to a wonderful start.
This is week four of our one country a week "travels" I must say that I expected to start to feel some burn out at this point but we are loving this study unit. I have even thought about adding to it during the summer to study a few more countries that we had not planned on. This week we found ourselves in The Netherlands. It ended up being a much more interesting country than I thought it would be. Here are the highlights. Coloring page from our workbook. She found it particularly funny that the boys name was Hans. Our weekly flag picture We found the pictures of Holland fascinating. Especially the aerial photos of the tulip fields. So beautiful. You should really check it out! We talked about why windmills are important to The Netherlands, and what they do. This was a great video about windmills. To go along with this lesson we made this windmill craft out of a toilet paper roll. Color and cut Glue, the paper clips help keep things in place until it dries. I found that we needed to punch a hole in the blade to help it turn better. We used a brad and the project was complete, her own working windmill! We also did a quick paint project that both girls were able to do together. It is nice when Emily can join us for one of our projects. These are plastic fork tulip paintings. We just dipped a plastic fork in paint and pressed it on the paper. Even Emily was able to do this with little assistance. We let them dry and added leaves the next day. Cute, simple, quick project for The Netherlands or spring! Holland was honestly my favorite country we have done so far. I really felt like Marissa and I both learned a lot. Before we wrap up all things Dutch, we need to do some baking. I found a recipe for a traditional dutch dessert that ended up having a name that was as fun to say, as it was to eat.
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Old Lady Flisat Insert, Book Flisat Insert, Flisat Table, Flisat Insert Printable, Flisat Insert Preschool, Sensory Table, Sensory Inserts This Flisat insert comes in two sizes, a small insert to fit the small bins and a large insert to fit the larger bins. Included is the the large and small old lady inserts and the animals that correspond to the song. Included is also instructions for printing and cutting the inserts, please read carefully. The small inserts come on one piece of paper, while the larger inserts are meant to be printed on two pages and then taped together. My goal has always to make it as easy as possible for people to use with their home printer. If you are interested in the larger size in any format (pdf, png, or jpeg) please reach out. 🟣 This is a digital download. Great for at home or at school. 🟢 This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you. 🟡 After purchase you will receive an email receipt from Etsy with a link to download your purchase. You can also download your files from the “Purchases and Reviews” section of your Etsy profile. Please be sure your e-mail is up to date. If you’re having trouble downloading feel free to send me a message! 🟠 You will receive a PDF file for printing on regular 8.5”x11” paper. I recommend printing on heavy cardstock and laminating for durability. 🔴 I love to see my learning activities being used by other kiddos, I’d love a tag! Find us on Facebook at the PreK Mama FB page and Instagram @theprekmama ⚫️ This printable is intended for personal use only. Not for resale. You may not copy, alter, or share these files.
Kids all over will be headed back to school before we know it. This series is intended to create meaningful moments for families as they head back to the classroom. This first part of this series…
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We learned multi-letter phonograms and the sounds they produce. Then we sorted through our sight words cards to find the phonograms.
