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!
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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”
t is for tracks
my idea was to have trays of fine colored sand to move trains through to make tracks. i even matched the train cars with the color of sand. i didn’t expect it to stay seperate, but i was curious how long it would. the children were interested in this for about 15 minutes. then theyContinue reading “t is for tracks”
t is for transportation
oh, how i wish model magic was more affordable! since it isn’t, our friday class was the group to sculpt transportation. we named the colors, counted together as i cut them apart (since that couldn’t be done ahead of time in fear of it hardening), then gave each child a plate of pieces. there wereContinue reading “t is for transportation”
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