What we've been up to this week

Here is a little of what's been happening in our classroom this week.

 

Halloween counting work

Part/whole matching cards

Acting out Dog's Colorful Day with the story props

Making a necklace

Pattern cards

Pumpkin number stamping

45 layout.............I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this math work. LOVE...............IT!!!!!  I may do a whole future post on it.........I just love it so much.  And I was so excited to be able to present it for the first time this week.

This is the Red object box 2.  Several children have completed their sound books and activities for the red shelf and they are getting started on their yellow sound books now.

This child is working on making their own color book.  I recently replaced the colored pencils in this work with the crayon roll you see here.  This has renewed the interest in this activity.

Pin-punching seasonal shapes is always a favorite activity for the children.  If you are the parent of a student who brings lots of these home, I want to remind you of how proud you should be of their work.  It takes tremendous coordination and concentration to complete this work.  I am amazed on a daily basis that they choose this activity which requires such focus and determination AND they choose it over and over.  This work is wonderful for developing the fine motor skills that will be needed for writing.

Another student was excited to complete the 100 board this week with only a few numbers turned upside down.

Comments

[Melanie Vaughn]

Can someone tell the whole lesson including black Elk's vision? I would love to to have the whole in order rather than trying to figurte it out my self.
Thanks,
attwil

[RM]

I love all of these ideas.
Thanks for the inspiration once again. I love the pumpkin numbers and the stamping. I was so annoyed that I couldn't get the dog's colourful day book in any of the book shops near me. I looooove that matching game too.
Egg is doing super duper with his letters and spelling (blowing my own trumpet but phonetics!!)so I love that idea, I have seen it in the school catalogues I have but it has always been in kits which cost a lot, but of course I could do it myself, thanks for the reminder! Do a future post, it will make you very happy, lol. One last thing, sorry, what is the item for the letter t, I just cannot make it out.

[Momslifesavers]

Just absolutely wonderful! My girls are now in 1st and 2nd year Montessori (River Valley Charter School in Massachusetts) and we are doing different works now, but I truly miss this work very much! :)