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Language

Dotted alphabet for tracing

Capital and lower case letter matching - post

Beginning Letter Matching Cards

Mathematics

Practice with ten beads - Post

Checkerboard Cards - Post

Make A Clock

O'clock Three Part Cards

Large and Small Number Cards

Geometry

Congruent Similar and Equivalent - Post

Triangle Cards - Post

Science

Organ Cards - post

Animal Question Cards - Post

Sun Game - Post

Geography

Land Water and Air Cards - Post

Animals and transport for Land Water and Air - Post

Compass Rose - Post

Country, City and Flag Sheet - Post

Months of the Year 

Vertical and Horizontal Lines

Little-N has been working with line activities in the geometry curriculum. He has learnt about vertical and horizontal lines. 

A bowl of water with a floating stick  is used to demonstrate a horizontal line. A plumbers line was supposed to be used to demonstrate a vertical line. I didn't have a plumbers line, instead I used a padlock on the end of string [not clear in the picture but he got the idea].

Once Little-N was clear on the differences between vertical and horizontal lines, I gave him a load of his pictures to sort into vertical and horizontal pictures.

Pentagons

I love geometry and love to share my love of it with the children I work with. Below are a few photographs of group activities about pentagons. Some of these activities were inspired by work I saw on The Moveable Alphabet.

 Looking at photographs of pentagons found in nature.

Each child used a few pentagons to make patterns.

The children took turns to place pentagons on this pattern.

After the group I set this activity up on the shelf so that the children can take the pentagons out themselves and create their own patterns.

I have a few more pentagon activities that I will be doing with the children after Easter.

Parts of The Line

Little-N has been working with line activities in the geometry curriculum. Below is the first activity where he learns the names of the different parts of the line: origin, ray, endpoint, line segment.

Here he uses a string to represent the line and labels the parts. 

Here Little-N is using the parts of the line cards.

Point, Line, Surface, Solid

Here is Little-N working with a geometry activity. The golden beads are used to represent a point, line, surface and solid.

Congruent, Similar and Equivalent

I recently did this activity with Little-N and Big-S. I followed the presentation in the Geometry Album I downloaded from Cultivating Drama. We used plastic fractions that I purchased from Learning Resource. I wrote the meaning of each word on a card and drew one set of symbols. Little-N and Big-S drew their own set of symbols and used the fractions to understand the relationship between the shapes. When we finished I got them to draw shapes in their books and label them. The above book is Big-S's, her writing has come a long way and is now very neat :) as for Little-N I let him stick the definition cards in his book so that he didn't have to spend too much time writing them out. I hope one day his writing will improve.

I have made three part cards for this activity you can download them from here.

Pictures of our latest work

I have had a busy few weeks, I finally finished my Montessori Foundation Degree and thought that I would have plenty of free time. However I was wrong, I discovered a pile of things that needed doing, things that I have neglected for the last six months. School has been great, it's calm with plenty of time for me to make materials as the children work. I have been adding materials to the classroom daily and will post about each section once it's completed. For now, here are some pictures of the work the children have done:

Language:

Little-s has been working through the blue series of reading materials. He can read and write in French and need to learn the differences when reading or writing in English.

Big-S has been working on the 'Suffix' this is presentation 1.

Suffix presentation 3.

Little-S working with the blue cards and moveable alphabet.

Big-S revising all the grammar symbols before we move onto the next part of speech.

Little-N cutting words into syllables.

Sensorial:

Little-S has mastered the binomial cube and is now working on the trinomial cube.

Big-S was making patterns using different triangles. She was looking at how different angles change the patterns.

Little-N completed the decanomial squares.

Cultural:

Big-S has complete a country research on Spain. I downloaded the sheet from Montessori En El Hogar and translated it into English.

Little-S and Little-N have been matching animals to their continents. I downloaded these cards from here.

Little-S has learnt all the continents and was able to match the cards.

Big-S has been enjoying science experiences using a kit that I bought from a car boot sale.

Mathematics and Geometry:

Little-N has been working on the 6 bead chain.

Little-S has been working with the tens beads counting from 1 -99.

Big-S is working on her multiplication tables and factors. Here she is working with the Pythagoras board.

Big-S has been working with angles, I copied this idea from this blog.

Here Big-S is matching numbers from the Pythagoras board to their relevant times tables.

Little-N is really enjoying the division board. He has worked with it so much over the last two weeks that he is now beginning to work out the hard answers without using the board.

Big-S has been practising on the division charts.

Big-S is still working on her sewing project.

Little-S working on the Tens board.

Art: Geometric Patterns

Big-S did some wonderful work with geometric tiles. I bought these from here. They're transparent which seems to excite the children more. There are 15 shapes and they all fit together.

First she made her pattern from the tiles.

This is the pattern complete. It's beautiful :)

Next she used other tiles to trace her pattern onto paper.

She then covered her traced pattern with tracing paper and coloured in the tiles with felt-tip pens.

Her final piece of art!!! It was too good she had to take it home.

Activities of the week : June 2010

Here are some pictures of this weeks work. My class has three children Big-S who is nine and a half, Little-N who is 6 and Little-S who is almost 6.

Little-S working with the plain binomial cube.

Big-S making patterns from geometric tiles.

Big-S learning the names of the counties of England and Wales. I got this map at a car boot sale for £1.50.

Little-S working with ten beads. Revising quantities till 90.

Little-S working with the Teen board and beads.

Little-N on a trip to science museum to visit 1001 inventions exhibition.

Children baked cinnamon rolls.

Little-N having lunch in the garden.

Little-N working with 6 bead chain.

Little-N building the Eiffel tower.

Little-S working with a tangram.

Little-N reading history books

Little-S working with continent map work.

Big-s cutting out hexagons and pentagons. More details in a separate post.

Big-S sewing hexagons together

Little-N's work with grammar symbols.

Little-N working on division board.

Big-S constructed a bucky ball, the kit is from here.

Big-s making a buggy kit.