with Shelly Birger Phillips
A Montessori inspired preschool and toddler house for ages 2-6.
Tues. and Thurs. mornings only
Call Shelly at 415-312-1830 or email her
at shelly (at) awakeparent.com for more information
Montessori Inspired Plant Watering Activity
What you’ll need:
A tray that you don’t mind getting wet
A clear pitcher already filled with a small amount of water
A hardy plant that needs a drink
A nearby towel available for spills
Here my daughter discovers the activity and gets ready to pour.
Pouring!
Finishing the pour.
What you’ll need:
One Foam Board
5 sheets of 12×12 cardstock (4 green, 1 blue)
A pair of scissors
A gluestick
A papercutter helps!
Just glue the green down first covering most of the board. Cut out your lake and/or river and glue everything down.
Add some animals and you’re done!
Julia’s first sink/float activity!
I simply wrote sink and float at the top of a piece of card stock, drew a line down the center and then laminated it.
Then I collected some items that sink and some that float. I poured the water into the bucket for her and she had a blast testing each item and putting them on her chart in the appropriate location.
After introducing this yesterday, she woke up and immediately wanted to do this work again. It’s a hit!
Here’s a video of my daughter playing the new geography game we invented:
A few months ago I found this National Geographic world map and decided to glue it to a foam board to see if my daughter was interested in learning the continents.
Then, on our recent airplane trips we brought a small ball/globe and she started to show a real interest in geography, learning the names and locations of several countries.
When we got home we started to play a new game with the world map. We put her toy animals on their countries of origin. She loves it!