Crazy About Montessori

I have noticed that there is alot of activity on my blog and that thrills me.  If you have some ideas that you would like to share, then sen...

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...

I traced the continents from the continent puzzle onto construction paper that matched the colors from the Montessori continent globe.  T...

The students place the puzzle pieces on the control then they traced each piece.  After they traced the pieces they can then label the pa...

I traced the brown stairs and copied it onto brown paper.  The students then cut the stairs out and glue then in order from largest to sm...

I collected a variety of objects for the students to test.  I found a measuring spoon, a popsicle stick, a candle, a rubberband, a gourd,...

After the students had been introduced to a group of letters then we play the knock, knock game.  We lay the sand paper letters face down...

The students use the ellipse and the triangle metal insets to make a bat.

Pumpkin Pounding I drew a face on a pumpkin and then the students used a hammer to pound some golf tees into the pumpkin on the line.  ...

I decided to venture outside of my comfort zone and put a painting activity out during our extended day program (older students or studen...

I got these cut printouts from 1plus1equals1 .  I stored them in a large mailing envelope for lack of a better place to store them at the...

I guess since October is half over I should probably post some of our Halloween themed works.  I will start with practical life. Cauldro...

I got this idea from Our Montessori Homeschool.   I got some paint samples from a hardware store (2 of each).  I laminated on set and then...

These fabric squares have lines sewn down the middle both ways.  The students fold the fabric on each line.  This teaches the students to...

Pom pom sorting is a BIG hit in our class I found a four sectioned tray at The Goodwill.  I then cut red, yellow, green, and blue pa...

I found some objects that are CVC words.  I then made some cards that had a picture of the object and the 3-letter word on them.  I then ...

Here a student is making an egg using an idea card. Here are the idea cards that I made for the students to use to get inspired to u...

The students put the numbers in order 1-10 then place the correct number of seeds (black beads) on the apples.

I presented the life cycle of an apple tree to the students (the cards that I used are not pictured).  The students then cut out the pict...