Lessons Learned

Adapting Education

Farm stamp a story

In preparation for more work with the farm and language we got out the farm stamps. I paired it with the moveable alphabet so I could incorporate spelling as I told a story. The idea was to tell a story and leave a word out being a noun such as pig, cow, barn etc. I…
Math with Beads

Math has become a favorite for me to watch the kids explore. They are becoming more & more sure of themselves with each use of the materials. A few things have happened with math this past week. Above we see the girls using the beaded hanging stairs. They are Buildimg 1-9 and then 11-19. Both…
English

Here the kids are working on reading & writing skills. We choose a vowel box from the pink series Montessori language set. Then I choose some card matches word to picture & stir them up. The kids match the word to the appropriate picture. After this they spell the word out with the moveable alphabet.…
A shelf display.

We have our shelves with 2 parts right now. The kiddos seemed bored with the usual sensorial & practical life materials so I picked 2 subjects in science and we’ve explored that. One is sea turtles. The other is the solar system. Maggie has been asking a lot of earth questions and about the moon…
Solar System

We started out talking about the moon. A question came up the other day about planets and the moon and if other people lived on other planets also. I explained very briefly how our planet had all of the elements of life & just right circumstances & the others didn’t. Then I explained the moon…
Rainbow

The kiddos playing & learning with Grimm’s wooden sets. The rainbow is a favorite. I’m always intrigued at what Maggie & Lily come up with when they build something with it. Maggie’s last creation was a maze to fit the wooden balls through. Lily turned an arc upside down and made it a seesaw.…