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

Walking On the line

This is one of the new lessons I have set up for new academic year. 
 In this lesson we need is a tray, ribbon, paper weight, spoon, a ball, a book and bell. 

1. Children will first get the mat and open it. 
2. They get the tray and put it on the mat.
3. Child will open the ribbon in a straight line.
4. Child will put paper weight on both the sides of ribbon.
5. First the child will walk just trying to balance, for extensions child can use spoon and ball, book or bell.( only if child is ready)

This is a great Montessori lesson that helps child to build balance and concentration. 

 Kid walking very carefully on the line....

Very slowly and carefully

Three Part Montessori Cards

Three Part cards are language materials which is helpful in all curriculum areas. This material helps young children with matching and older kids for their record on paper.

Parts of Apple......

This is the representation of our parts of apple in form of Three Part Montessori Cards. I first of all cut the apple into halves and showed them the parts of apple with pictures.

This lesson has 3 major parts 

1. Control cards : Cards with Picture and Word
2. Picture cards : Cards with just picture
3. Word cards : Cards with just words

The lesson is as follows

1. On a mat we layout about 4-5 Control cards. 
2. We then match the pictures to Control cards.
3. After matching the pictures children if reading or knows their sounds try to match the word cards. 

Children putting control cards 

Matching control cards and picture cards

Children putting Word cards

We are making booklets also for parts of apple. Kids just loved this lesson and are doing it a lot. 

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