The Montessori language album that I use has a section titled “Art Folders”. The purpose is to expose the child to various forms of art and to stimulate conversation about art. I love this idea and it’s something I’d really like to do. However, the album says the materials include “three color-coded sets of folders, each containing 12-15 pictures of artwork.” The first set is for artists, one folder per artist. So assuming I had a folder for 10 famous…
Happy Valentine’s Day! Although I don’t do much with themes, DJ did participate in a Make & Mail Valentine exchange in his toddler playgroup this year. I was so incredibly impressed with the way he chose to paint the hearts. It made me a little sad to not be able to keep them! DJ was playing with his markers the other day, stacking them together and counting them. So I pulled out his number rods to compare each set of…
School these days is all about letters and maps, maps and letters. We have now done 13 of the 40 sounds, or about a third. I’m really impressed with DJ’s memory for sounds. And I’m beginning to catch him outside of school time exploring words on his own such as h-h-hat. And we haven’t even done /h/ yet! A new addition to our language shelves is a sand tray. It is used to practice writing letters without needing to use…
We continued our sandpaper letter work this week. The Keys of the World albums I use suggest that once you start, all the letters should be completed rather quickly in just a few weeks. We started with three (a, c & m), then added two more (d & t) and today added two more (s & p). Before adding the latest two, we did a review of the first 5 by playing a sorting game. I piled all our objects…