I was so giddy visiting this Montessori elementary classroom. It's not that often that I can visit my
directress friend when her students are not around. She gave me a bunch of handouts so I can make my own
nonclementure cards!
Yay! I was strapped for time because Cheeky was a little bored (it was a first-sixth grade class after all) and
Koko got hungry from all the work she did, so I didn't have time to photograph the material properly on rugs. You understand, right?
I loved this days of the week book explaining the meanings of all the days of the week. I am totally going to make one myself!
These geometric sticks seem worth purchasing for the purpose. I wish I could have seen it in action, but alas, we were short on time.
And I think
Koko might be ready for this money lesson soon!
The bead cabinet in its full glory!
My husband initially wanted to make this cabinet himself, but after a while, he said, "Let's just buy it. Too much work!"
One of the basic first exercises with the bead cabinet. Demonstrating how 2 squared is 4 and is actual a square shape. My friend recommends purchasing this for
Koko now, because there are a lot of lessons she can do even at her young age and I'll get more use out of my money.
Touching the backbone of a turtle's carapace.
Koko doing the
trinomial cube. It's a lot of work and after a while, my friend stopped doing the algebraic sequence and just let her finish in the order she choose. I can't believe this little cube teaches the foundations of algebra!
Koko sorting through living and non-living items. Can't wait to replicate this at home!
The landforms set up on the shelf. They usually use brown
plasticine, but they ran out, so they're using red for now. Included is a little measuring cup that they fill with blue dye and water, small round containers, and little knives to carve out the shapes.
I was surprised at the small round containers she used for landforms. Thinking out of the typical square...
She made her landforms with ink and coloring pencils and then her students made them with construction paper!
I loved this days of the week book explaining the meanings of all the days of the week. I am totally going to make one myself!
These geometric sticks seem worth purchasing for the purpose. I wish I could have seen it in action, but alas, we were short on time.
And I think Koko might be ready for this money lesson soon!
The bead cabinet in its full glory!
My husband initially wanted to make this cabinet himself, but after a while, he said, "Let's just buy it. Too much work!"
One of the basic first exercises with the bead cabinet. Demonstrating how 2 squared is 4 and is actual a square shape. My friend recommends purchasing this for Koko now, because there are a lot of lessons she can do even at her young age and I'll get more use out of my money.
Touching the backbone of a turtle's carapace.
Koko doing the trinomial cube. It's a lot of work and after a while, my friend stopped doing the algebraic sequence and just let her finish in the order she choose. I can't believe this little cube teaches the foundations of algebra!
Koko sorting through living and non-living items. Can't wait to replicate this at home!
The landforms set up on the shelf. They usually use brown plasticine, but they ran out, so they're using red for now. Included is a little measuring cup that they fill with blue dye and water, small round containers, and little knives to carve out the shapes.
I was surprised at the small round containers she used for landforms. Thinking out of the typical square...
She made her landforms with ink and coloring pencils and then her students made them with construction paper!
4 comments:
How fun! I have been fascinated by the geometry stick work for awhile! Do you think it can be made?
Shannon, I have no idea if you can make those sticks. I didn't have enough time to check it out. But let's investigate a little further!
"Demonstrating how 2 squared is 4 and is actual a cube shape."
You mean a square shape (versus a cube in a 3D space)? At any rate, can't guarantee I'll check all your posts, but I will read the ones with interesting titles!
My bad. I meant square shape. When you do cubing, you do see an actual cube though...
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