Adapting Education
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Smelling bottles & pouring.
Maggie works with the scent bottles for the first time. Lily enjoys colored rice pouring excercises. Lily sifting and pouring. And maggie with the scent bottles. Sifting.
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Pouring Activities. Practical Life
Above pictured is Lily and Maggie doing their grow an egg. It was done around the same time as our chicken display. It gave them an idea of how long it might take an egg to crack and why the egg does in fact crack. Because the thing inside grows until it breaks the…
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Mostly Chickens.
A practical life activity with pouring. Above are a few examples. One being sand in a pitcher. The other pitcher is used to pour the sand back into the first pitcher it was in to begin with. Another activity involves pouring water into little glasses where food coloring has been added to the bottom of…
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Practical Life and Practical Fun
Today we spent most of our time learning about practical life and playing in the back yard. In practical life we did pouring exercises that also involved spooning back and forth the ingredients. One activity had beads (pony beads) and the other was a project with dry noodles. The girls really love these activities. Other…
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Shapes after Mat Man
After working on Mat Man we focused in on a book that comes with the HWT Mat Man set. One of the books with Mat Man as the hero is the Shapes book. So I took that book and picked out choice shapes from the metal insets and we worked on that for awhile. Lily…
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Mat Man
As part of the handwriting without tears program, we’ve been learning capital letters and how to write them. Again, I hesitated to use this program because I felt that writing letters in print was much more difficult than writing in cursive. But for Maggie’s sake of loving print I started the program. Mainly because at…
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