in the spirit of maria montessori, i take care in PREPARING THE ENVIRONMENT. today it was setting out colored markers for our writing boards. beautiful and constructive!
Author Archives: Ms Kristin
b is for box car children
they weren’t so much the box car children, but children making box cars and box trucks and box trains, etc. with old snack boxes, stickers, tape, tickets, crayons, scissors (though tearing works as well sometimes), paper fasteners pencils and glue, they made more transportation! some knew they wanted “smoke stuff” to come out of thatContinue reading “b is for box car children”
a is for airplaine
in our conversations about travel and transportation, we discussed airplanes. figured out was that they can go over water, but they can also go over land. they can go from country to country, but also city to city. one answer i didn’t have was what is the SHORTEST distance an airplane can take us. howContinue reading “a is for airplaine”
r is for rivers, roads and rails
this is a wonderful puzzle game. i made it simpler by using only the pieces with one river, road or rail.
t is for ticket
another $5 well spent. this roll of tickets has lasted us 2 years. they increase the dramatic play simply by having them available. and when there is a ticket master and chairs lined up, well, you can almost hear the train horn.
