Color Mixing

We are doing color mixing this month and I am doing this lesson a little different. For this lesson we will need is food color, three clear bottles ( without lids), small bottles with dropper, tray, paper towel and pitcher.

 Tray with Pitcher and bottles with droplets

3 clear bottles

 Child pouring water in bottles

Red color 

Color getting dissolved

Mixing red color

Primary colors ( Red, Blue and Yellow)

Children mixing colors, they will now put a different color in the bottles

Mixing red and blue color

yellow and blue making green color

yellow and red makes orange

Changed colors

Children love this activity as they see color changing sometimes they take a step forward and mix all the colors and it sometimes is black and sometimes is brown.

Pasta Pumpkin

Halloween is here and this month I have set up classroom with Pumpkin theme. For this work we need Wheel Pasta,  food coloring(Yellow and Red), glue and black paper. 

I colored the pasta by mixing yellow and red color.

 Tray for making Pumpkin Pasta

Child putting glue inside pumpkin

Child putting wheel pasta on glue

 Gluing pasta

 Putting wheel pasta on sides

Kaleidoscope

A Kaleidoscope operates on the principle of multiple reflection, where several mirrors are placed at an angle to one another. Children love to see these reflections and they get so exited when turning the Kaleidscope and the tumbling of the colored objects presents varying colors and patterns.This is fun for all ages. I got this kaleidoscope from Zgallerie. It is very attractive for all ages. Children close one eye and see through it. My younger ones looking at the older ones try it, but can't close one eye. 

Heavy and Light

One of the important sensorial lessons this september is Heavy and Light. This lesson helps children to realize what is heavy and what is light. In this lesson children weight the objects in their hand and feel if they are heavy or light to weight.

Science Tray ( Heavy and Light)

 Children Place Heavy and Light on a small mat

A child checking if it is heavy or light 

Lesson Complete 

Needle and Thread

This lesson helps Children build Pincer Grasp, concentration and coordination. I am doing this lesson as a beginner sewing lesson. During summer I had some older kids and I realized that they had no idea about how to put thread in needle. I thought this will be a great lesson for kids to learn about needle and threads. For this lesson I used child safe needles ( I used plastic needles), and Thread. 

 Needle and Thread Tray

 We need a small mat to place needle and threads

Placing Matching needles and thread 

 Child putting thread in a needle

Child pulling the thread all the way 

 Placing needle and threads on mat

 Taking out thread from needle and placing them

Putting Away

Apple Counting Booklet

This lesson is a great lesson for beginners in counting and recognizing numbers and for older kids Its a nice way to recognize teen numbers and count them. For this lesson you need “Apple” shaped stamp or pen, booklet and colors. I got my "Apple" shaped pen online.

 Apple Booklet Lesson

 

Cover Page for Counting booklet

(children color the front page using crayons)

 The First Page says "1" which means children will stamp one apple

 A child stamping

"1" Apple Stamped 

 I also made these booklets for children learning teen numbers 

from "11 - 15"

Last Page for teen number booklet

Peace Bird

For this lesson you will need Peace Bird Outline and dot stampers. For this lesson I downloaded the Peace Bird from Internet. 

This lesson can be good for toddlers too. They simply love stamping on paper. For older kids they have started to work on different patterns.

 Peace Bird display

 Child getting ready to stamp

 Child stamping 

Peace Bird

Peace Bracelet for Peace Day

This is a fun post and a fun lesson for kids.....

Last week I went to Michael's and they had "Peace Sign" beads, when i got them I was not sure kids will be able to work with it or not. But to my surprise they loved it. 
Making Peace bracelet help kids
to build concentration 
to have strong pincer grasp 
to have strong hand-eye coordination

For this lesson you will need "Peace sign" beads, simple beads and Pipe cleaners. 

 Peace Bracelet Tray

 Child putting the Beads

Moving the beads all the way

Our Peace Bracelet

Cutting

Cutting is one of the essential activities in a Montessori classroom. 

Cutting helps children 

• build hand-eye coordination
• building fine motor skills
• encourages bilateral coordination

In this lesson we need a child safe scissors, zip-lock bag, a tray, a square shaped bowl and a page to cut. 

 Cutting lesson set-up

I have set up three type of cutting pages:

 Single Short Line Cutting

 Single Long Line Cutting

 Zig-Zag Cutting

 Kid Cutting

 Child Opening ziplock bag to put the cutting

Child putting her cutting in ziplock bag