Happy Halloween! This week has been full of a lot of fun and DJ had his first experience Trick or Treating door-to-door in our neighborhood. He loved it! He received this Boo, Bunny book last year and has had me read it to him countless times over the past two weeks. So many times, he can now repeat the book word for word as he pretends to “read” it. That’s a new thing of his lately, requesting his books to…
DJ worked with the red rods quite a bit this week. These are supposed to be solid red at this stage and are used to get a sensory experience of the difference between 1 to 10. The basic use of these is to set them out in random order and then line them up from longest to shortest, with the left side aligned to show the different lengths along the right side. In this photo you can see DJ has…
We had a busy few days this week so we didn’t do much with the Montessori shelves but as usual, there were a handful of activities. This is something that is most exciting for me. This folding activity has been on the shelves for months, gathering dust. In fact, the last time he worked with them was back in June. He couldn’t figure them out then, so he just rolled them like work mats. But today, he did it! He…
We went to the pumpkin patch this week and brought back a BIG pumpkin. DJ actually helped plant this pumpkin himself back in April, sort of. We went with our toddler group to this farm in April and one of the activities was to plant pumpkin seeds. While they had intended to take us out to the field to plant the seeds directly, it was still a little too cold still so they had us prep them in their greenhouse….