Aidan’s Counting Cups

To help reinforce his numbers, I put this activity together for Aidan. He lines up the numbers and then gives each number a cup. (For those of you familiar with Montessori, these particular numbers belong to our set of sandpaper numbers.) Then he can count objects...

Simple Do-It-Yourself Work

This is a simple and cheap (you may even have everything at home already) activity for preschool children. It is a good practical life activity, practicing for hanging clothes on a line. (HINT: If you don’t hang your clothes to dry, you can put up a small line...

Leaf Work Revisited

For those of you who have been following my blog from the beginning, you will remember this work. The leaf identification cards have been on our shelf for about a month, but have not been used recently. Today Caleb spontaneously brought them out and was working on...

Practical Real Life

Practical life is real life…our project for today:Before:During:After:Ok, I admit…I bribed them with an afternoon movie and popcorn party to help me get it done and put away, but alas the job is finished!

Vision Mobile

Well a small part of my infant/toddler research is coming to fruition… I made some vision cards from images I printed off this website (I did reduce their size to 50%). I printed them on card stock and then laminated them and put ribbon loops on the back so they...

“I didn’t need any help!”

Tim and I picked up this puzzle on date night last Friday. Caleb loves to do puzzles and this one is no exception! He wanted help to do it over the weekend, but this morning I told him I would sit on the couch and nurse Kylee while he worked. It was a slow start and...