Crazy About Montessori

The children have to find the missing beginning and middle letter sound. Cards like these can be found at Montessori Print Shop , Monte...

The children match the lowercase (baby gingerbread) letter with the uppercase (mama gingerbread) letter.  I wrote numbers on the uppercas...

Spooning   Tonging  

This is a favorite practical life work in our room.  The children take the toothpicks and drop them into the holes in the shaker.  I have...

Counting by 10's: the children put the mittens in order and then they can make their own counting by 10's mitten book. Here is ...

I have seperated the letter sounds for the alphabet into 4 groups.  Each group has a color and each color has a set of drawers that holds...

These works can be used during any season by switching the type of counters used.   I made some cards with addition equations that eq...

We created a nature basket on our science shelf after the children started bringing in leaves and pine cones from our nature walks.  The ...

While on a walk in the field by our school we found a pile of rocks.  The children were very interested in rocks and they all wanted to b...

I cut open a pumpkin so the children could look at the inside. Parts of a pumpkin nomenclature cards: The children match the picture...

I made a pattern card for the children to use to make a Halloween pattern strip.  I also encouraged the children to come up with their ow...

After reading the book "Five Little Pumpkins" many times to the children, I put out this work on the shelf.  I used some brown...

I made copies of straight and diagonal lines onto white, yellow and orange construction paper.  I also printed candy corn clip art labele...

I had the students glue one pumpkin paper punch in each square.  This helps promote one to one correspondence needed for counting.

As a pre-reading activity, the students match the jack-o-lantern faces.

I printed these cute color pilgrims from childcareland.com .  The students place a clothes pin on the color that matches the rectangle t...

I sewed a piece of felt to one end of a ribbon.  I sewed a button to the other end.  I then cut some slits into the center of the leaves...

Leaf sorting Leaf tweezing     Bead centerpiece:  The students place the pipe cleaners into the holes of the salt shaker.  T...

The students glued a tree cutout onto construction paper and then used a leaf paper punch to make leaf shapes.  They glued the leaves on...

I cut some tree shapes and glued them onto a black background.  I wrote the numbers 1-10 on the trees and I laminated them.  The student...

I cut out leaf shapes and then cut them in half with different designs.  I then wrote an uppercase letter on the top of the leaf and the...

I made the parts of the leaf out of felt so the students can reconstruct a leaf and then label the parts.  They can use the control char...

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  I made the parts of the tree out of felt so that the students can reconstruct a tree and then label the tree parts.  They can use the...

I found some ornaments in the dollar section at Target and decided to use them as counters for the numbers 1-10.  Some of the other stude...

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I know it is the beginning of December and I am posting some of my Halloween pictures.  Oops!  I was going to post some of my November/Thank...

My aunt helped me make these cute bags for the pink material picture/word matching.  There are 5 bags labeled with each vowel.  Here is t...