Bracelet Game (r, n, h, i, f)

BraceletGame(rnhif)
As promised. Same as the previous Bracelet Game, but with letters r, n, h, i, and f.

First Letter Fill-In Cards (r, n, h, i, f)

First Letter Fill-In Cards (Excel Worksheet)
Same as the last ones I posted, just with pictures that begin with r, n, h, i, and f.

Practical Life

Just so I don't leave out the little learners! The practical life exercises are pretty self-explanatory:

Separating tri-color glass pebbles.

Transferring poof-balls using a (large!) pair of tongs. The best part of this work is the "poof" that Avery says as she transfers each ball.

Transferring popping corn from one bowl to another with a melon baller. Transferring exercises are supposed to move from left to right to prepare for reading, but I must have been having a brain fart that day.

This activity uses those re-usable ice cube things. Avery can spend a looooooong time fishing them out and putting them back. The tongs are a little stiff for her, but she manages. I've been trying to find little sugar tongs in-store buy haven't been able to so far!

Nomenclature Cards--Fruits and Vegetables

Nomenclature Cards(Word Document)
Purpose: To teach classification techniques.

Seguin Teen Boards (numbers 11-19)

Seguin Teen Boards (11-19) (Word Document)
Purpose: To teach recognition of the numbers 11-19 and the quantities they represent.

Additional recommended materials: one ten-bar and nine individual beads. If you don't have those, individual quantities of anything would do in a pinch (such as buttons).

Addition Strip Board

Addition Strip Board
Age: 5 1/2+ supposedly

Purpose: to help child understand basic addition.

Directions: Place the board in front of the child, and the strips below the board. Have the child pick a red strip and a blue strip and place them on the board in a line. The child will determine the answer by looking at the numbers along the top of the board. Have the child write down the answers (an addition table would help, maybe I'll make one up).

Patterning

Sequencing
Printing Instructions: Print and cut out the eight-square strips (that is, don't cut out the individual squares). Cut out the pictures from the four-square strips individually.

Directions: Place the eight-square strip in front of the child and put the individual picture squares beneath the strip. Have the child complete the pattern by putting the individual picture squares on the blank spaces on the eight-square strip.

Age: This activity is a little easy for Riley (4 1/2) and likely too hard for Avery (2 1/2) so perhaps best for a 3-year-old?

Bracelet Game

BraceletGame(a,b,c,m,s,t)
Again, a, b, c, m, s, and t for now. I am working on r, n, h, i, and f now, so those will be coming soon.

Riley's school uses the plastic bracelets (you know the ones, the "jelly bracelets" from the '80s!) to "circle" the correct pictures. I laminate them and use a dry-erase or wet-erase marker. Either way...

First Letter Fill-In Cards

First Letter Fill-In Cards
Printing Instructions: Just print and laminate, then cut the cards apart. Use a dry-erase or wet-erase marker to fill in the first letter. The "___" representing the missing letter did not re-format well when I was uploading the document, so you may want to re-write one, or not.

Just a note: Riley's school teaches a, b, c, m, s, and t first, and then r, n, h, i, and f. These pictures all have a beginning letter of a, b, c, m, s, or t but some other letters are thrown in as an option. I will upload more letters as I make them!

Just Getting Started!!

So, I've been kind of a freak about getting Montessori materials ready for Riley and Avery for summertime use. So I thought to myself, why not put them up on the web for others to use too? And this is also a way for me to keep all the stuff I've created in one place, rather than hidden among a million Word and Excel files.