School Room: April 2016
I finally purchased the Keys of the World Primary Albums for ages 3-6! I'm about halfway finished reading the Theory album. Then I need to read the rest of them (all 1,000 pages....). Fortunately, Alexander turns 3 years in June, so I have two months to get myself together.
In the meantime, I decided to reorganize all of our school supplies into the school closet. I did it when we moved in, 3 months ago, but I've learned a lot more about Montessori, and since we'll be moving into something more official, in June, I wanted to make sure my space was easy to navigate. The closet has bins and boxes galore, organized in a lot of ways: colors, shapes, letters, numbers, practical life, fine motor, transferring tools, and so on. It looks a lot neater, and it gives me room to grow since many of the boxes are nearly empty.
While I was going through all the stuff, I was lying it into piles on the floor. I wanted Alexander to be a part of the process, so he was in the room, going through things in each pile. I took note of some of the items that he was drawn to, and I used that information to set up our April shelves. Some toys/activities haven't been displayed in months, and he was immediately drawn to those. A few of them bored him quickly. But some others held his attention, some things he wasn't quite able to complete a few months ago.
I want to share what we've got displayed now. You can see more activities on a daily basis on my Snapchat account. It's a free app, if you don't already have it, and I'm on there just about every single day. I share cooking tips, life tips, activity ideas, and sometimes just random pictures of my kids.
Here is our current setup!*
The left shelf has the following activities/trays (top to bottom, left to right):
- Fine Motor: pushing pipe cleaners through holes
- Fine Motor: using tongs to move felt balls
- Language: matching capital letters to lowercase cursive letters
- Melissa & Doug puzzle
- Stacking owl puzzle
- Melissa & Doug puzzle
- Practical Life: small mirror and comb
The right shelf:
- Object to Image matching: shapes
- Balancing Boat
- Flower Arranging
- Number Matching: self-correcting puzzles that match quantity to digit
- Melissa & Doug shape and height puzzle
- Gross Motor: Melissa & Doug hammer practice
The low shelf:
- Object to Image matching: animals
- Colored pencils + blank paper
Here's a link to the 123, 456, 789 prints that are on the wall above the shelves.
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