Monday, March 18, 2024

Art Supplies Vocabulary Cards

 

Montessori 3 Part Cards or vocabulary cards have been a huge tool for me in teaching my kids to read. My third baby is less "into" words than her brothers were, but she LOVES the Little Reader lessons I have made (I've been having trouble uploading lessons, so send me a message if you'd like the file). She also seems to like matching the cards. That means, I need to make more for her and this Art Supplies set is first up.




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Free Printable Montessori 3 Part Vocabulary Cards

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Easter Egg Pattern Matching Activity

When my kids hit the point of matching colors and shapes well, but I am not ready to introduce letters and numbers yet, pattern matching has been our logical transition activity (I've made mittens, shamrocks and hearts). This time, I made some fun patterned hearts that we can use for Valentine's Day and for our shape activities.


What is nice about these activities, is that they can start off as a matching activity and eventually progress to a memory activity. I do laminate mine for longevity.



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Monday, March 11, 2024

Tot School St Patrick's Day

Gotta love a theme! This week we did some St. Patrick's Day activities with Juniper, who was 20 months.

I got out several St. Patrick's Day books, but Happy St. Patrick's Day From the Crayons was really the only one she liked. However, we had to read it again and again.
Shamrock pattern matching. She did a few and got bored.


St Patrick's Shape Tracing (print here). This was the first time I introduced tracing shapes, so she definitely needed my help. Of course, she then wanted to do it on her own. (We used dry erase crayons on a dry erase center. We've had it since my oldest and it is much easier than the sleeves at this age.)
Afterwards, we did some line tracing with her bunny (print here). I should have done this before the shapes, but I had lost our old copy and had forgotten to print it.
Rainbow colored balance pods and activity rings were a huge hit! We did some matching, she did some balancing and both younger kids did lots of playing.
Pattern cards with wooden dominoes.You can print the pattern cards here.
I even wrote words on dry erase cards and she put those in the correct rings.
Pulling jumbo pickup sticks out of a basket.
We tried this cute Roll and Cover printable from Totschooling. She did not fully "get" the idea of rolling the die and then matching the number. She did a few and then lost interest. We will try again next year.

Playdough setup was just a dray with some cookie cutters, some shamrock buttons, gold gems and gold coins.
I printed a shamrock onto a blank transparency and gave her a bunch of green translucent manipulatives.
I let her use some chunky brushes to paint a bunch of green onto big paper. Then I cut it out into shamrocks. She seems to love painting.
To work on quantities, I set out this matching activity. I had planned on using gold gems, she decided to use pink magnets instead.
St Patrick's Day Sensory bin had various colors of green rice and pasta, gold gems, gold coins and little mini cauldrons.



 

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Middle East Week

 This week in our Around the World Homeschool Curriculum we did the Asian side of the Middle East

Books:

Activities:

He looked at his Learning Globe

Recipe:

This week we tried Mujadara from his Global Feast Cookbook. Everyone liked it.

Read Aloud:

We started the Turtle of Oman, but had to finish next week because it was a little long. It is about a little boy who has to move to the United States and has a lot of feelings about it. While I think relating to the emotions is good for kids, it did kind of end up feeling a little drawn out and repetitive. A lot of the silly and mindful talk from the grandpa, while pretty for me, was way over my 5.5 year old's head.


Art:

This week we did some Middle East inspired Geometric Tile Art from Babble Dabble Do.

Videos:





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Friday, March 1, 2024

We recently wrapped our FINAL WEEK color themes!  We did rainbow colors. Since she knows all of her colors, you can see my tot school goals here.
I found this little rainbow tray at Michaels and added a bunch of pom poms. Both younger kids enjoyed it.
I got out more little math cube pattern cards. She did ok, but it wasn't her favorite activity.
I found some great rainbow foam at Michaels and cut a bunch of shapes. I let the kids spray the window with water to see how the shapes stuck.
 Sorting food was a big hit this week. She had it out many times. She also liked talking on the "bananaphone"

Putting the colored blocks in the houses. She still does better using these lying down rather than standing.

Rainbow on the light table. I made the one on the right.
Rainbow sensory bin. I didn't get a closeup, but the base was yellow rice with painted wooden balls and shaped pasta.
Watercolors with big brother. She kept saying "rainbow colors" while painting.
Playing a color/shapes gross motor game (DIY template here)
Color two part puzzles. She's good at matching them but struggles to get them together. She doesn't want to pick one up, but tries to just mash them together.
Color sorting dinos on the light table. She likes to put them in the little boxes.
Butterfly shape puzzle. This one is a little challenging, but she did better than I expected.
Not color related, but she got some gross motor practice with Feed the Woozle.
I got out all of our "color" and a lot of our rainbow books. She's starting to like more picture books, so I included a lot of those. Some she LOVED (Pete the Cat) and some she never wanted to read, which was totally fine.
The Day the Crayons Quit (one of big brother's favorites)
I Know a Wee Piggy
Colorful World board book
Chameleon Colors (would not recommend)

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