This is Po's set of shelves:
He's working on:
- posting
- cookie cutter puzzles
- basic flower arrangement
- love your heart/healthy heart food bean bag toss
- pom-pom transfer with a spoon
- foam flower stacking or use as blocks
I also put a small assortment of valentine books out for him to look at as he loves books.
So far, his favorite is the toss and the posting. He can't walk past the shelves without posting.
This is Minnow's set-up:
Minnow is working on:
- Word finder-he says the word on the heart wand and finds that word in a assortment of books and says it whenever he sees it as he pages through the books.
- Salt letters- akin to sandpaper letters using a blunted pencil for proper grip as he's able to do them all with his fingertip now
- pom-pom pinch and sort- up until recently he couldn't squeeze a regular sized clothespin so we're working on that.
- heart size sort into small medium large trays using reference cards
- water pouring- going to have colored scented water for him to practice pouring
- flower arrangement- he's working a lot on small medium large so I've cut his flowers in that configuration by color and we'll see how it goes or if he even notices. He's very fond of arranging flowers
- Red bear 0 family adding- on the advice of some Montessorians I'm starting with the 0 family, working on them all, then moving on. Fingers crossed that it will be easier for him, I think this will help him considerably
- The obligatory valentine art basket- We have various cookie cutters to use as stencils, hearts, arrow hearts, flowers, teddy bears, and all the letters to spell valentine if he chooses; as well as an assortment of markers, colored pencils, and crayons. I also tossed a pair of scissors in there in case he REALLY wants to get creative.
It's all ready to go and so I leave you with this pic of the boys today. They are REALLY tired today, can you tell?
Happy Montessori days to you all :)
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