Saturday 10 July 2010

It's summer and I for one am trying to take a break from formal Montessori activities.  L has other ideas though.  I have to say I'm happy, especially in the mornings she will go and pick something now that she hasn't picked in ages and want to do it.
The other day she picked the mystery bag.  After doing it the usual way I made up an extension where I got two of every object and put one of each in the bag.  She would feel one object and then try and find it's match in the bag.  She really enjoyed this and found it quite easy.
We did this wonderful activity that we did last year again but this time I mixed up the colors and L painted each compartment.  She then went round the garden and found things that matched.
After doing our instrument activities and learning about Peter and the Wolf L made her own instrument.  A rain maker.  We got an old paper towel tube and taped aluminum foil to one end.  Then L poured in some rice and we sealed up the other end with foil as well.
We made paper mache out of water and flour and L tore up the newspaper.
Once it was dry L painted it and glued on lots of sequins.  Here she's using it outside since happily this is the only sound of rain we've heard in a while!

7 comments:

Deborah Stewart said...

I remembered that egg carton nature hunt activity and loved it. I would love to bookmark it but unfortunately the link goes to Peter and The Wolf:) I will check back!

Unknown said...

Nice activities. L does a wonderful job using the funnel.

Insightful Brain said...

Ooooh! I haven't tried the rainmaker and egg carton activity... those look like so much fun. Thank you for your kind words!

Montessori Beginnings said...

Hi Deborah. Sorry about the link. That seems to happen to me a fair bit. I've changed it now.

Ariella said...

lovely as always!

Förskoleburken said...

I love the extension of the mystery bag! I'm definately going to try it at my preschool! Thanks!

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