tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61452888612267568622024-03-18T21:10:11.891-07:00Sorting SprinklesMontessori-Inspired Activities for Toddlers and PreschoolersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-15557940366623808312015-01-28T05:29:00.000-08:002015-01-28T05:29:05.435-08:00Cats Week for Preschoolers - Part 1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I</span> love cats. Always have and always will. My kids are also big cat lovers, especially my daughter. As I write this, she is happily cuddling a dozen plush cats in bed...so needless to say, when Cat Week arrived, she was very excited! We had a "pets" topic last year and she liked it but I felt that choosing only one pet would allow us to do more than touch the surface this time so I picked kitties. Below, you will find a few activities enjoyed by my 4 year old.</div>
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The poor kitty cats are sick. Each needs some medication added to their bowl of milk. Each card in front of each cat indicates how many dropper-ful needs to be added to each bowl. By the way, instead of using milk, I simply put some diluted white paint in each bowl and the fluid medication was simply water. </div>
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This was simple and fun. I didn't feel like painting a lot of toilet paper rolls to show my daughter how to make her own step-by-step as you would see in a Montessori school so I simply did it along with her. First, we painted the tube black. Once dried, we added the white dots (we used Q-tips) and stripes. Then came the pink paint for the nose and mouth and finally the black dots for the pupils. I chose to bend the top a bit to illustrate ears but my daughter decided not to. Her cat was scared by fireworks she said and thus was crying and had his ears bent backwards. :) I first saw this on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/536983955540832543/">Pinterest</a> (and they looked much more professional but hey, I never said I was an artist! :))</div>
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Holding a pencil is not hard for my daughter and she loves to imitate her big brother when he writes so to fulfill her desire, I always try to have a packet for her to write on. For this theme, I picked up a free copy of <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2011/09/cats-preschool-pack-free-printables/">1+1+1=1's printable pack</a>. It contained lots of pages but I chose only the relevant ones of course. The cute cards you saw above with the numbers also came from the pack!</div>
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This concept is fun to me but seems a bit stale/boring for my preschooler. I guess she gets it and is ready to move on to more novel stuff...Anyway, each cat needed a bell toy. I had just enough cats for the quantity of bells of course.</div>
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Cute paw stamps? Check! Pictures with lots of cats? Check! Kids love using stamps and since my daughter was the only one using these cards, I thought it'd be fun to stamp the quantity of cats in each picture instead of using clothespins or objects. The paw stampers are from Oriental Trading Co. and they were already in our stash as we gave them away as birthday favors. I made the cards myself and they ranged from 1 to 8. My daughter can easily count that far but reading numbers above 5 is still challenging so this proved a bit difficult for her.</div>
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We've been working a lot on letter sounds lately and using the Sandpaper Letters almost daily. We've worked our way from s,m,a,t, to c,r,i,p, and finally have arrived at b,f,o,g. As a way to review their sounds, I try to make little games and activities. Here, I found a picture of a yawning cat and wrote a different letter on each tongue. I pre-cut little felt circles and called them cat treats. When my daughter heard me say a letter sound, she'd find the cat and feed it a snack. She loved the concept! </div>
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Although any cat picture could work, I wanted to use one where my daughter appeared. The photograph is actually old so she didn't remember much about where and when it was taken. Not a bad thing. She eventually found the answer through my questions anyway. My goal here was to see what she could tell me about the picture. Who was there? What were they doing? Where could they be? Was it winter? How can we tell? What happened after the picture was taken? Did the cat go away? Why was the cat at the playground anyway? And so on.</div>
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Using a few of her plushes, I organized a "contest" and prepared ribbons for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Quite demanding in the contest department but my daughter loved the ribbons! We had a cat race where I made them slide on the floor to see who got the farthest, we had a jumping contest which involved throwing the plushes, and so on.</div>
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Somehow, my kids are not really fond of coloring. Even coloring small body parts of a cat seemed like a mighty chore. My daughter still managed to finish her cat booklet though. Included were the head, body, tail, whiskers, eyes, nose, ears, paws, etc.</div>
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Directly from <a href="http://www.kidssoup.com/pets-activities/pets-activities.html">Kidssoup </a>in their freebie section was this sheet I've used with Adrian before. The worksheet is quite simple: read the number and add that amount of whiskers. It was tough. My daughter, although she can count far cannot necessarily read numbers that high. So she drew whiskers and added more or erased a few after counting.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">W</span>hen I came up with the "Fashion Week" theme, I thought it'd be better than simply having a "clothing" theme. It was "more broad" in a way. I knew with a theme like that, I'd be able to include buttons, but also hair accessories, shoes, and so on. Speaking of shoes, I totally forgot to add the "shoe polishing" activity to our week! In retrospective, I think this theme would have been better if it had been a bit more limited...</div>
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I initially thought my daughter could decorate her name with buttons but then I thought again and well...names can be lengthy. In the end, I offered an array of letters we have already mastered the sounds of for her to embellish. She really liked this activity by the way.</div>
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Let's face it: it could have been any clothing item but the tie is somewhat straightforward work. A skirt would work well too. If you choose to do this work as well, carefully supervise the children: this size of pin is not only prickly, it is also definitely a choking hazard!</div>
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This was definitely very challenging. Not sure why. The idea was for her to look at the content of the jewelry box and then identify what went missing after I closed it. I initially thought it was too difficult because there were too many pieces so I reduced it to 4 items but even that was very hard and mostly left to luck it seems. My 6 year old son loved this box though. :) We'll give this another try with other items at a later time I think.</div>
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Hmm. A commercial activity! Too easy to put together! :) Love Melissa & Doug. From Melissa & Doug but not pictured, my daughter also dressed up some magnetic dolls.</div>
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Yet another punching activity! This one required different muscles though. :) It's a simple paper punch for corners so maybe the shirt was not the best clothing item to "embellish" but it still looked neat.</div>
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My kids never cared much for color tablets. They'd much rather have the colors be presented to them as something else. Here, these felt squares were "fabric swatches" being matched by color for example. No problems here. All these colors are well mastered. I thought about putting out a fabric box as well but couldn't find new and interesting fabric...</div>
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This activity was great on so many levels. First, it was a matching activity but since I gathered socks from various family members, it also gave us an opportunity to review the terms "small, medium, large". For a bit of practical life fun, we also rolled the socks into balls. Once we had lots of little sock-balls, we used the laundry basket as a target and proceeded to throw our sock-balls into it. This was a much loved activity as you can imagine.</div>
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What a nice presentation is makes in stores when all the accessories are on holders! With that in mind, I had Zahavah organize her own pony tail holders on these corks. It was the perfect size. Had it been too big, it would have been hard to stretch the elastic and hold the cork at the same time.</div>
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I had seen this bracelet activity earlier this year on <a href="http://happyhooligans.ca/toilet-roll-bracelet/">Happy Hooligans</a> and thought it'd make for a nice craft during for Fashion Week. Now I wanted the paint to be shiny so I added corn syrup to the tempera paint. I do think I went a little overboard with the syrup...The paint was not so thick anymore and was kind of runny but my daughter loved the glossy finish. For decoration, we had gems and glitter pens.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">D</span>on't you hate it when you have an idea for a theme and it just doesn't pan out as well as you thought it ought? This was one of those themes I was sure would be great to explore and would offer an array of possibilities for work stations and now, I just feel "meh" about it. It wasn't bad by any means but it wasn't great either. My daughter, who loves her school hours, loves most everything though so this week was just fine for her...which is what really matters! :)<br />
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I like these buttons. They all look like flowers and are so colorful. Even better, they come in different sizes too! For this activity, we only worked on sorting them by color but in the future, we could take it to the next level! To help with the color sorting, I provided yogurt cups in purple, blue, green, orange, yellow and red.</div>
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Bingo is loved here and now that my daughter has learned more letter sounds, it makes for good practice to hold a letter sounds bingo! It's great for reviewing letter sounds of course but it's also a good opportunity for children to see how letters are sometimes written differently from the Sandpaper Letters. For example, at first, the printed "t" caused a bit of confusion but she eventually figured it out. If you too want to make your own bingo cards (I make some for sight words for my first grader so it really is a lifelong learning tool), you can use the free bingo generator from <a href="http://osric.com/bingo-card-generator/">Osric</a> like I did.</div>
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This was most definitely the favorite this week. I offered two sizes of clothespins: the traditional ones (bigger but harder to control) and the medium ones (smaller but easier to pry open) as well as doll clothes for hanging. My little one loved doing her own "laundry" and repeated the activity several times. Finally, the clothespins are catching on!</div>
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Now this came from an idea I pinned a while ago. Using scrap felt pieces and cotton balls, the idea was to make a cozy winter hat. I put my finished model in view and that was it! Easy craft for everyone. Once again, we focused on using liquid glue and controlling the amount squirted out. We also learned to fluff up cotton balls to make them less round. My preschooler tried to cut through the felt by the way but it was very difficult as it was thick so I provided her with strips. The <a href="http://www.thingstoshareandremember.com/cozy-winter-hats/">original idea </a>used ribbons mostly as well as coloring. Just as pretty. We just tend to use what we have on hand. :)<br />
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I miss having kitty cats but...I don't miss finding their hairs on my clothes. In the meantime, I have young children who constantly make the dust come out of who knows where so this practical life activity was perfect to introduce the lint roller. I provided a "travel size" one to make it easier for little hands to manipulate. </div>
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I always liked these 3 part cards. They came as a free printable with my purchase of a <a href="http://khtmontessori.com/shop/">KHT Montessori</a> album. I printed a set for use on our Morning Circle Time Board and kept a set as 3 part cards. This was our formal introduction to the seasons but they had been informally "visited" during calendar time and well, through life of course! After this work, I encouraged my daughter to check out the clothing sorting activity...</div>
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Piled up on our couch were a few clothing items to be sorted by seasons. Some fitted more than one of course but it made for a great discussion. Why do we not wear wool socks in the summer? Why would I want a pair of tights in the fall?</div>
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Loved this idea when I first saw it on <a href="http://mrsleeskinderkids.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-frosty-fun.html">Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten</a>. My set didn't turn out nearly as pretty as that classroom's but it did the job just fine. Printed some sweater and pants clipart. Stuck some stickers on the sweater and penned some numbers on the pants. The work? count the "buttons" on the sweater and match with the pants adorned by that number. We only went up to number 5 but next year, we could add numbers and make these outfits cuter...and bigger possibly.</div>
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Well, I never bought the dressing frames as you can see. They're essential life skills work sure, but each frame runs around $12 and they can be handmade for much less. Here, I took a weaving hoop (I believe that is what it's called...) and inserted a velcroed jacket. The material was thick so it didn't work that well but my little one knows how velcro works anyway... :)</div>
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This was very easy to put together and fun to do for my daughter. She counted the ornaments on the trees and then added the star featuring that number on top of it. Simple and educational. Thank you Erica for this <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/12/preschool-christmas-activities.html">free printable</a>!</div>
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I originally saw these as beautiful Christmas cards in a GREAT<a href="http://www.redtedart.com/2014/04/22/button-craft-ideas/"> Red Ted Art article</a> about buttons (loved SO many ideas there) and thought it could easily be turned into a simple gluing activity. Glue sticks are easy to maneuver but liquid glue in a squeezing container can be harder because little hands need to control the pressure and the movement. For this, I pre-draw the lines and bows and greeting. My preschooler simply had to choose buttons, apply liquid glue and press the buttons in. She quickly realized that too much glue would show through the button holes and that too little would mean the buttons wouldn't stick.</div>
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Big dice (a Learning Resource product) are a big deal here. I originally purchased them for my first grader to do math subtraction and stuff like that but they come in handy for my youngest too. Who doesn't like giant foam dice after all? <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Roll-a-Santa-Freebie-427924">Donna Glynn at Teachers Pay Teachers</a> made this cute game where each number on the die will help you build a Santa. My daughter loved it and highly recommends it!</div>
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I always hesitate when it comes to craft. Don't get me wrong, my kids love crafting BUT, I find it hard to turn crafts into Montessori-type crafts where the child can simply follow a few easy steps just looking at a progression chart. On top of it all, many crafts are not developmentally appropriate for preschoolers (think: you do most of the work or prep). The craft pictured above did require me to cut several openings prior to my daughter doing the work but as for the rest, it can be done by a child. Cutting silk paper squares (or even tearing them up for that matter) and sticking them on a piece of contact paper is doable. My daughter loved the nativity scene and the colorful squares sticking. She did it all herself and was very happy with the result. Thumbs up from Zahavah and kudos to <a href="http://www.housingaforest.com/stained-glass-nativity/">Housing a Forest</a> for sharing this idea! P.S. I found the image on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/rosemaryglock/nativity/">Pinterest</a>!</div>
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Using the biggest bells I had and of course some sparkly pipe cleaners, I showed my daughter how to make her own jingly bracelet. It looks easy but it's actually a tight fit. The bells don't have a big hole and the sparkly pipe cleaners bend and have so much "sparkle" that they are thicker than the average pipe cleaner...I wanted to put out another sound matching activity with the bells but until I get more glass containers, I'll wait. It was hard to match the sounds with the plastic containers I thought.</div>
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Ah...Patterning is still completely escaping my daughter. We tried and put it away again. In time!</div>
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Like I said, I skipped making gingerbread cookies this year so this was the closest the kids came to decorating some. I made a batch of brown play dough, provided a small play dough cutter (where in the world are my gingerbread cookie cutters anyway?) and some decorations: beads, buttons, gems, glass pebbles, small Santa hat, etc. This was a great tray that came out many times over the two weeks it was out there.</div>
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I promised myself I would remember the existence of those this year. I remembered seeing them during the year and had made a note of downloading these from PreKinders when Christmas neared. Aren't they neat? Head over to <a href="http://www.prekinders.com/christmas-pattern-blocks/">PreKinders</a> for your own set of Christmas pattern cards. Younger students like to put the tiles (made mine with foam) on top of the picture. Older kids like to make their own next to the picture.</div>
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For years I've had a decorative sleigh with "fake" presents in it. This year, the children were happy to finally get their hands on them despite the fact that they are nothing more than wrapped boxes. The activity was quite simple...Each present needed one bow on top! 1:1 correspondence at its best.</div>
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Here is something my kids love to do. You'll see many versions of these in Montessori schools as well. I was fortunate enough to buy a mini tree a few years ago back in Denmark and kept it as a family decoration. We usually put tiny glass ornaments on it but if a preschooler is going to decorate this itty bitty thing, it had better be with some unbreakable ornaments. Not wanting to invest in plastic ones, I relied on a big "seller", namely, the sparkly pompoms and sparkly pipe cleaners. My daughter of course reminded me that a star was needed on top of the tree so I'll be handcrafting one for next year I guess! :)</div>
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I looked and looked for a printable like this but didn't find anything I liked, so I made my own using clipart. I only had tiny clothespins so we used those for this activity. My daughter was not thrilled. The tiny ones are hard to work with and required a lot of patience. Note to self: must buy big Christmas clothespins! :)</div>
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I am not sure why but some classic Montessori materials rarely make their way out. I think my kids love thematic activities so much that they forget/don't like the classics anymore so I have to get inventive. For this activity, Zahavah had to measure Christmas presents. Mind you these were straight from under the tree so getting to "touch" her presents was already a big deal to her. She did have fun measuring the length and width of each present. Sometimes she also measured the height. </div>
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Who would have thought the Pink tower could turn into such fun? My kids never cared much for the pink tower...until now that is. Seeing all these pink cubes sitting in a corner, I imagined them turning into presents so I followed my thought and prepared this activity as a size discrimination one. No stacking this time; only sizing from smallest to biggest...or vice versa!</div>
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Well, this isn't new. I believe it's quite popular in Montessori schools actually. I proposed two different versions of the tree drawing using the triangle inset. My daughter opted for the "easiest". Thought she'd get around to doing the second one as well but she didn't.</div>
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Ooo. While any kind of pompom could be used for this work, my kids relished these for their sparkly factor. It made the activity SO much more interesting! :) Who knew spooning could be so much fun, right?</div>
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<a href="http://homeschoolcreations.com/GingerbreadBabyPrintables.html">Homeschool Creations' Gingerbread Baby pack</a> had these cute cards perfect for the season. Couldn't resist. I tried finding Christmas clothespins but to no avail so I went to the next best thing: Christmas chocolates! Yummy!</div>
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My kids like the regular Sandpaper letters but after seeing this idea on <a href="http://prekandksharing.blogspot.de/2012/12/montessori-inspired-christmas-language-activities.html">Pre-K+K Sharing</a>, I thought it'd be a nice spin on them for the holidays. Once again, the Gingerbread Baby pack came in handy! Each letter we've learned so far was covered in glitter glue for tactile definition (not easy to do by the way!). As I printed them, I realized they were quite small. Will have to enlarge for next year but these still worked well overall since my child has mall fingers.</div>
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It was so hard for my daughter NOT to look into the stocking while feeling the objects! She loved this activity and guessed all of things right (I picked holiday related items and used my old childhood stocking). She enjoyed making her own for me afterwards! :)</div>
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Thank you, thank you, thank you Katie @ <a href="http://www.giftofcuriosity.com/christmas-activities-for-kids/#printables">The Gift of Curiosity</a>. I'm always happy to drop by Katie's website. She provides so generously all kinds of printables including the ones pictured above. My little one LOVES do a dot paint and since she's still working on her first letters, this was perfect on so many levels!</div>
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So basic for a preschooler. It took a whole 30 seconds for my daughter to do but it was still fun. Thanks to the <a href="http://www.stirthewonder.com/tot-trays-christmas/">Stir of Wonder</a> for the idea!</div>
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Free Santa! My daughter has been cutting for a good two years now but she still could use some practice. Straight lines and diagonal lines are quite easy for her but wavy lines and spirals? Not so much. She didn't really feel like giving this tray a shot until I presented it as a "freeing" activity. Santa was trapped in the snow maze and needed to be freed so he could deliver the presents. Her cutting along the spiral would do just that. Convinced, she proceeded to cut all her strips. In her defense...the strips were not exactly attractive. I had planned on buying shiny Christmas stickers but time got away from me and I had to use the stampers we had on hand. These did come in handy though when we tried to work on patterning later...</div>
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Hmm. Cookies. Amazingly enough, although I baked 5 different kinds of cookies this year, I did not make any gingerbread folks. Other than being cute, they don't do much for me taste-wise and I know it's the same for most everyone in the house so I skipped but still liked the idea of this cookie so I made a few out of felt! :) Perfect for flipping. My daughter loved flipping them and pretend she was baking and then decorating them. On another note, my felt wasn't the stiff kind so it was a tad bit hard when it came to flipping with the wooden spatula. Will be switching to better spatula and stiff felt or foam next year if we repeat.</div>
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Now I've seen this idea somewhere and I usually write down where I find the inspiration from but didn't for this one I guess. Anyhow, basically, I used a shoebox, drew a Christmas tree and poked holes for future toothpicks to come into them. This worked as a 1:1 correspondence activity. There were enough holes for the pompom toothpicks provided.</div>
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Cute activity here using wrapping paper remnants. I cut small squares and asked my daughter to match these samples to the roll she thought it came from. She really enjoyed it but it was quite easy. Next year, I'll be adding more samples and possibly smaller ones! :)</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">T</span>ada! After "many" years of blogging here on Sorting Sprinkles, I realize that I've never actually posted anything about our Christmas trays. Sad, isn't it? So I thought I'd make a special effort and publish some this year! Yay! I know it's a tad bit late for all of you to use BUT, Christmas will return next year, and the year after and...well forever and ever.</div>
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When I saw this beautiful activity on <a href="http://teachbesideme.com/christmas-tree-felt-board-printable-cards/">Teach Beside Me</a>, my heart was set on having it on my Christmas shelves. Of course, it took a bit of preparation on my part but after that, what fun to be had. My preschooler picked a card and decorated her felt tree just as seen on the card...and in the end, she made up her own pattern!</div>
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After seeing this idea on <a href="http://neverpictureperfect.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/preschool-montessori-christmas-activities/">Never Picture Perfect</a> I started looking for some bell clipart. I knew it'd be a popular activity so I really wanted to put it together...and did. As expected, my daughter loved it. We worked only from number 1-5. A strong basis is very important to me but I can see my daughter is quick and exact each time now so after the holidays, we'll go from 1-9.</div>
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This may not look like a great activity but it is quite difficult for some children to use liquid glue. For this star, I pre-cut the shape and drew pencil lines. My daughter had to use the liquid glue and spread it only on the lines and then shake just a bit of glitter on top. It demanded quite a bit of fine motor control to use the actual liquid glue container. Squeezing along the lines just enough glue is challenging! For older children, pin punching the star or cutting it out themselves will increase the fun. So will drawing their own lines! Next year, we'll try that and to make it more attractive I plan on using gold foil! :)</div>
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Seeing how sparkly pompoms made everything more Christmassy, I provided a clean plastic paint palette to mimic a Christmas wreath along with the right amount of pompoms. Very basic. Too basic in fact...so I added a pair of wooden toast tong for pompom transfer. Voila! A tougher challenge already! :)</div>
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Sequencing a story is not easy for children. For my preschooler, I provided only 3 pictures per story. One illustrated the making of gingerbread people and the other, the making-delivery-opening of Christmas presents. </div>
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Well, this is kind of a traditional Christmas activity for many Montessori schools. My kids love wrapping presents and pretend it's a birthday or Christmas any time of year so silk paper, gift bags, ribbons and all come out quite often. I had a basket of supplies, tape and small wooden blocks for wrapping. </div>
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<a href="http://www.totschooling.net/2014/11/free-christmas-playdough-mats.html">Tot Schooling</a> had the cutest play dough mat for Christmas so I quickly printed the entire set. My kids loved the mats! Who doesn't want to make antlers for a reindeer or a beard for Santa after all? I even gave it a shot! :)</div>
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I made this huge challenging Christmas tree puzzle for my newly turned 4 year old. She didn't really care for it. Maybe it was just too big or maybe it just wasn't attractive enough. Who knows? Next year, I may present a smaller version of it for her to cut and glue on a Christmas card...</div>
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Presents and bows seem to go together, don't they? So that made bows perfect for so many activities. Here, a very simple sorting tray that can easily turn into a matching bows color later...</div>
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Another visual discrimination activity we had during our Christmas themed weeks was this one featuring 4 big Christmas trees and 4 smaller versions of the same tree. Matching cards of the same size are great but this, I felt, presented a bigger challenge. Zahavah really had to pay attention so the right trees would be matched. Some really looked alike!</div>
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Having bought a big bag of gumdrops to decorate our own Gingerbread house, I realized it would also make the perfect school activity. Homeschool Creations had an entire set of <a href="http://homeschoolcreations.com/GingerbreadBabyPrintables.html">printables</a> that included these cards so I printed them and provided just enough gumdrops for the counters. Mind you if anybody else did the activity after, they might have been missing a few counters...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-82315978217786540072014-12-28T06:41:00.000-08:002014-12-28T06:41:21.652-08:00Kitty Cat Birthday Party<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">D</span>ecember is one busy month for us. Many birthdays to celebrate on top of the holidays and well, I'm sure you know what it's like if you too, celebrate Christmas. Still, one of the highlights of the month is my sweet little daughter's birthday. This year, she turned four and requested well in advance a kitty cat themed birthday!<br />
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I have been baking a storm lately with the holidays around the corner. Baked many different kinds of cookies, maple cupcakes and...this birthday cake. I knew I wouldn't have a lot of time to put this one together so I tried to keep it simple. A nice vanilla scented cake with a vanilla buttercream frosting. Orange accents made with fondant and paws cut out of marshmallows. Meow!</div>
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Instead of buying the favors bags, I decided to design my own. Paper bags are cheap after all and so is construction paper. I would have loved to find grey gift bags though...Oh well.</div>
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Inside each kitty cat bag, the children could find a sheet of kitty cat stickers, a bag of stampers featuring paws of every color AND a set of cat rubber ducks! :) Stampers and rubber ducks were purchased from the Oriental Trading Company and the stickers are Mrs. Grossmann's.</div>
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Pinning the tail on the donkey is one traditional birthday game. Well, this one wasn't so far from the real thing except the donkey was traded in for a cat...and the tail was switched for a pink bow! </div>
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Ah....I missed a few famous kitties for my quiz! How did THAT happen? I totally forgot Splat and all that. Oh well, for this activity, I printed pictures featuring cats most children know. Then it was quiz time. In case you wonder, the picture of the real cat features Maru, a beloved kitty my kids watch on YouTube! :)</div>
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So cute! Found several cat pictures and tried to find pictures of their paws for this matching activity. Some were easier than others of course (think Sphinx over beige cat).</div>
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Who wouldn't want to adopt a kitty? These beautiful Aurora plushes are all the rage at our house. I got an array of "wild cats" and "domestic cats" ready for the adoption. I intended on getting only the pet ones but my son seemed more inclined towards to bigger felines! :) Free certificate of adoption courtesy of <a href="http://blog.chickabug.com/2012/10/free-printable-cat-adoption-kits.html">Chickabug</a>.</div>
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A little crafty fun for the plushes! A simple activity where a medallion is decorated with "bling" and glitter and offered to a kitty cat as a necklace.<br />
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Not pictured but also great for photo ops were my handmade kitty cat ears. Children had access to black face paint to draw whiskers and a nose if they wished.</div>
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Fun times! I must give credit to HWTM for a lot of the ideas! Check out the kitty cat party she featured and get more ideas and see the fancier version of her kitty party <a href="http://blog.hwtm.com/2013/05/cute-kitty-cat-party/">here</a>.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">T</span>ransportation units are fun: there are just so many possibilities in terms of work for the children. I always try to include a lot of choices involving fine motor skills, art, math, language, and all. Here is a sample of the rest of our transportation week...</div>
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Looking for a way to develop your child's fine motor skills? This might just be it. Using a spray bottle is not easy for children but it works the muscles needed for handwriting so give it a go by suggesting your child spray paint a new coat of paint onto a car. In the summertime, I usually draw a HUGE car and send the kids to spray paint outside. In the colder months, a small sheet of paper with a plastic tray does just fine.</div>
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In terms of practical life, hammering is a good one. Most people will pick up a hammer at some point in their life so it's useful to know how to hold a nail and how to hit it right. To make it fun, I proposed an egg carton, golf tees and a hammer too in order to build a makeshift train track. It wasn't easy to hold the nail and hammer in the right place but my daughter got through it proudly. </div>
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We've worked a lot with the circle inset and it is going well so I added the oval inset this week. Instead of simply tracing the inside, I suggested we make an airplane out of it. Tracing just to trace has become a bit boring for my 3 year old so adding "a design" makes it more enjoyable.</div>
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We have an impressive collection of peg puzzles and floor puzzles here but they seem to be accumulating dust lately. In honor of transportation week, I thus decided to bring some out! Some made sounds, some helped with the ABCs, some were pattern matching ones, and so overall, it provided a good variety.</div>
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I saw this cute printable a year ago or so on <a href="http://www.themeasuredmom.com/printable-counting-mat-fill-the-dump-truck/">The Measured Mom</a> (who, by the way, is terrific at creating free and original printables!) and saved it for later days. You see, my son, who is 6, would find this work way to easy so I waited patiently for my daughter to age so I could print it and offer it on her shelves. Well, here it is! I provided numbers 1-5 and several girly blocks for the truck. She'd pick a number and put that quantity of blocks on the dump truck.</div>
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Well, this is something we've done before...at least, I did make this for my son's Cars birthday party a few years ago. It was easy to make so this time, I thought the kids could do it themselves...and they did. I had a model car of course and one ready for assembly. Easy peasy!</div>
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So we don't own a full size set of red rods. Hey, we home school so sometimes, I prefer to invest in other things. We made our own set of red rods (a miniature set) and it works just as well, believe me. My daughter has mastered sizing up the rods so to offer an extension, I showed her how to make a maze with the rods. She loved it and built it several times. We added mini Cars vehicles and it made it even better!</div>
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Although not a major type of transportation, I always feel like the hot air balloon is forgotten! :( I precut 4 shapes resembling a hot air balloon and all that needed to be done was a fold in the middle of each and then each fold had to be glued to another one until it came full circle. I looked for a string but of course, they were all gone so we used a pipe cleaner to suspend it. The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/03/craft-project-hot-air-balloon-mobile">original post </a>suggested more than 4 shapes by the way and theirs looks much more colorful for for my youngsters, I felt this would be plenty!</div>
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Unable to find a picture of my daughter in or close to a vehicle, I picked one of her brother sitting on a motorcycle. My goal: to get her talking about the picture by asking open-ended questions that get her thinking. Of course she started with who was in the picture and what he was sitting on but she had to think more about the weather that day or the season for example. She required clues for those (look at the clothing. Any shade anywhere?) Questions such as : "Why is he sitting on this motorcycle?" were easier for her since they were more speculative. I got her cracking when I asked her if it was Adrian's motorcycle! :)</div>
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Fun times. How far can little tires go? Zahavah rolled each one and we discussed which one was furthest/closest. Which one was first and last in the tire race and such. Fun, easy, wordy. </div>
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Transportation offers such good simple science activities! This one is of of my favorites. We inclined a plank of wood so a car could roll down. We varied the incline using different props to see if the car would go further or not and as a pièce de résistance, we modified the plank itself by adding components on top to see if some materials would make the car roll faster/slower. Needless to say, it created quite a ruckus in the "classroom". It was fun to see what the kids thought would accelerate/decelerate the car too. As you can see, tape did not help Lightning McQueen win THIS race! :)</div>
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First time exploring air, land, water is always a bit "prickly". Water is quite easy to understand and identify, land is well, quite allright too but air? Always a tough concept for the kiddos. Thankfully, with the Montessori approach, it's a lot easier. More "tangible" if you will. Although at first sight, there is "nothing" in the first jar, there actually is and it's all around us: air! I presented the jars and <a href="http://thehelpfulgarden.blogspot.com/2012/07/land-water-air-presentation-cards.html">cards</a> and we talked about about how our lungs fill with air and we can feel our ribcage moving as such. </div>
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A quick follow up for the previous activity can be done with different types of vehicles: namely planes, boats, cars, etc. Zahavah's job was to sort through the vehicles and match them to the appropriate <a href="http://thehelpfulgarden.blogspot.com/2012/07/land-water-air-presentation-cards.html">card</a>. No trouble here! Concept was learned!</div>
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Reinforcement for the air, land, water concept is always nice (so is revision of course!) so I printed these <a href="http://thehelpfulgarden.blogspot.com/2012/07/land-water-air-presentation-cards.html">cards</a> to match with the air, water, land cards. Once again, Zahavah confirmed that she understood the difference in between all three.</div>
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Hmm. These challenges, although fun are hard to my daughter. I offered a bundle of straws, a long sheet of foil and a plastic cup. The goal: Make a boat for the the Lego man using the materials provided. At first, she didn't know where to start. I prompted her with a "do boats float or sink?" She knew they floated so I asked her to look for materials that floated. She started with the foil. It floated but was it strong enough? The straws floated too but they scattered. Not good. The man would fall through; the foil would get water on. She decided to combine both. She wrapped a bunch of straws with the foil. It worked...for a while. Water started to get in the straws! That's when the cup got handy for the man. To make sure it wouldn't sink though, she re-wrapped her straws so the endings would be covered in foil too. Success!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I</span>'m not gonna lie: a big part of me associates the transportation theme with little boys! I know, it's shameful. Extremely sexist but once against, my daughter set the clocks right for me at least! :) A lot of our activities were actually "borrowed" from my son's when he did a similar week back in preschool and I received no protests from my girly girl. I also brought it some new ones of course! :)</div>
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Vroom, vroom, vroom. Or is it zoom, zoom, zoom? No matter what kind of noise your cars make, this activity is a win-win! Tape each car with a letter and make a "parking lot" with the same letters. The child now has to match car and parking space. I personally chose the letters we've been working on : s, m, a, t, c, r, i, p, h, j, u, l. It helps with letter recognition and is fun at the same time. Original idea? <a href="http://mymontessorijourney.typepad.com/my_montessori_journey/2008/06/parking-lot-gam.html">My Montessori Journey</a>. </div>
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All aboard! But wait! Has the conductor punched your ticket yet? This activity was so beloved that I had to re-print tickets! I was more than happy to oblige. Hole punching seems very simple but it's actually very hard for little hands. It helps develop the small muscles needed to write so I highly encourage it. Make it harder by providing construction paper or cardstock. Make it easier by replacing with foil or...by using a scrapbooking type of puncher. Tickets needed? I grabbed mine at <a href="http://www.thespaghettiwesterner.com/2012/06/free-printables-modern-diy-train-themed.html">The Spaghetti Westerner</a>.</div>
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Oh no! The car is out of coolant! Time to re-fill! Thanks to colored water, a funnel and glass, the job is "easy"...at first. Re-filling the tiny bottle was quite challenging and demanded great care and attention.</div>
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Does every car has the same tires? Do you think they will make the same tracks? Let's find out! With some paint and a few cars, nothing's easier! Zahavah enjoyed making straight lines in yellow, green and red. She noticed how going slow versus fast also produced a different effect on the paper. Matching the tracks with the cars once her piece of art was finished was also fun.</div>
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Well now that the cars were dirty with paint, we had better give them a wash down, right? And we did! During the summer, we did a car wash but now that it's much cooler, it had to be an indoor one. I provided shaving cream for the soap, a cube sponge (extra work for fine motors), a small pitcher of clean water for rinse-off, a cloth for drying and some sponges for polishing. The tray was a hit. Zahavah washed all the cars...several times. </div>
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Puffing along! Steam trains puff smoke so using cotton balls and trains from my son's collection, I asked my daughter to put a certain amount of puffs of smoke over each train. She is not at the stage when she recognizes written numbers above 5 so we did it orally since she can go well above 10 in that department! :)</div>
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Do a Dot sheets are all the rage here so I couldn't resist printing a few from the <a href="http://www.giftofcuriosity.com/transportation-toys-do-a-dot-printables/">Gift of Curiosity's transportation pack</a>. Each was unique, some even had counting or associations so it was fun AND educational!</div>
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During the week, we also did "regular stuff". We practiced our sandpaper letters tracing and sounds and we added a new element of history to our activity time: day and night distinction. Now my daughter has known about day and night for quite a while but it was great to see her sort the day and night cards so fast. She felt so proud of herself for doing this work perfectly the first time! :)<br />
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Yes, play dough is still very much popular in our house; usually, a lot more when it's home made dough and creative challenges. Play dough mats, as I found out, are not all that! :( In case your preschooler wants to give these a try (I thought the ideas were most clever!), head over the <a href="http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/1366-1370/sb1368.html#.VIG-8-AWjuw">Sparklebox</a> for your freebies.</div>
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<a href="http://funfamilycrafts.com/cardboard-tube-cars-2/">Family Fun Crafts </a>had the cutest craft made out of a toilet paper roll, paints and brads. Had to give it a try with my 3 year old. I prepared the car pieces of course. Her job was to paint, assemble the wheels and glue the stickers on. It was ok. Better for older kids. When the adult prepares most of the craft, it's not fun...</div>
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Providing only two wooden blocks and straw, I asked my preschooler if she could build a bridge that would support 4lbs of sugar. She examined the straws, weighed the sugar and seemed to think I was challenging her to something impossible. At first, she put the straws down and it didn't look like a bridge at all so I had to remind her that boats should be able to go under AND cars over. Then she started putting several straws on and the sugar went on and held. She was awfully proud. I asked her why she didn't put only one straw and she told me the sugar would be too heavy for it. I also asked her why she put all the straws closely and not far apart and she told me the sugar would fall through. We tried those options and of course, she was right in both cases. <a href="http://theimaginationtree.com/2013/04/designing-and-building-bridges-activity.html">The Imagination Tree</a> did a similar activity which greatly inspired this one. Their straws were smaller than ours and the flexi kind so it took more straws and tape was also involved I believe.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow's the fairy unit inspiring you? Gathered some ideas already? It was quite a fun time for us to explore such a fascinating topic. Best of all, some of these activities will remain available for further play now that the unit has come to an end (i.e. the fairy garden play dough and the house you see below).</div>
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Granted this was not entirely produced by my preschooler, she'll gladly boast to having painted every single cloud and tree you see here. The rest of the credit goes to an idea seen (but no longer seen...) on Disney.Family.Go website and to me for the cutting of the cardboard. The idea was to provide entertainment sure, but also to show how to play gently with items. Too often, children are rough with their toys and this one was most definitely not going to sustain such rough play...The house did not take nearly as long as I expected to cut and assemble (even without the free templates the website used to provide!)...especially considering how happy my little girl was in helping making it, seeing the final result and letting her new fairies try it!</div>
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Butterflies are somehow likely to be associated with fairies so I took this opportunity to get out my beautiful butterfly gems. It made for a great activity of sorting. The blue and dark purple butterflies were so close in color that at first, they were grouped together! Once the final sorting had taken place, we switched to a counting activity. Zahavah loves to count everything so she was very happy to see how many winged creatures were in each group.</div>
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More butterflies? Why not? Using a bathtub anti-slip applique, Zahavah transfered and balanced her favorite new school material : water pearls. It wasn't easy but she delighted in being allowed to manipulate the beads (and seeing them roll off of course!).<br />
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Hmm. Non-healthy snack in sight? Well, while exploring Oceania with my eldest, we did a lot of Montessori-style activities to keep him engaged. One of those was to make "fairy bread". Needless to say, it also happened to be perfect for Zahavah's thematic week so she was also allowed to make her own fairy bread too...and enjoyed it thoroughly! :)<br />
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This unit also included a bit of "paperwork", courtesy of <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/SpringFairyPrintables.html">1+1+1=1</a>. I didn't print too many pages since little Z doesn't enjoy worksheets much but for the times where she wants to mimic her big brother, it was helpful and fun.<br />
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In preparation for handwriting, Zahavah also got to "write" on her own chalkboard with colorful chalk. She's used it before but each time it comes out, she is so happy to see it.<br />
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Well this was rather hard. Somehow when she is using a worksheet, discovering what comes next is always easy but building a pattern sequence was awfully hard for my little one. Analyzing what came next was also difficult. Hmm. Maybe she was just having an off day...<br />
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Opening and Closing doors quietly like the tooth fairy</td></tr>
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A fairy week would of course not be complete without a grace and courtesy lesson! How does the tooth fairy come in our bedroom to exchange a tooth for money without being seen? She knows how to open and close the bedroom door super quietly of course! We pretended to be fairies with our doors and it seems the lesson has been learned...</div>
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These are always fun! Printed off <a href="http://www.prekinders.com/butterfly-matching-cards/">PreKinders</a>, I got for free this nice set of real butterfly photographs for matching. </div>
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Writing has been quite fascinating for my daughter. Her brother writes the longest "books" so she's quite wanting to "put down her own words" too. Unfortunately, she isn't quite there yet but to show her that those written symbols do carry a meaning, I printed off this picture for her and asked her to tell me the story that goes with it. I wrote it down for her and showed her each word as we went. She's asked me to read her story several times since.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">L</span>ike most little girls her age, Zahavah loves fairies. Nevermind that they are mythical creatures rarely (if ever) seen in Montessori classrooms...Despite the fictional theme, I still tried to keep in line with some work you'd see in Montessori environments. Here's what my littlest has been up to last week...</div>
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Playdough is practically a necessity with preschoolers. I used to always buy the pre-made cans but I've now switched to making my own. Based on an idea seen a while back on <a href="http://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/fairy-garden-play-dough.html">Fantastic Fun and Learning</a>, I decided to offer Zahavah the opportunity to create her own fairy garden by providing brown glittery play dough, small twigs, fresh leaves, glass gems, silk flowers, shiny rocks and a Safari Toob of Fairies. Needless to say, this was a very popular activity and it came out every single day.</div>
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I have been told that fairies can make a jingly and beautiful little noise when they move about. I thought it'd be the perfect time to introduce Zahavah to a homemade version of the Montessori sound canisters. I used empty Kinder Surprise egg shells and three different sizes of bells. My daughter quickly discovered that shaking the container slowly and close to her ear was the best way to discern the sound and allow for a great match. Shaking hard made them all sound the same! :)</div>
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Has the tooth fairy come by your house already? My eldest has been visited twice already and sometimes, the fairy leaves a residue of fairy dust (really just salt and glitter). I had the chance to collect some and used it for an activity here: sweeping fairy dust. Not an easy task!</div>
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Water beads are a newer material in our "school". I bought it last year and ended up forgetting about it. Whilst cleaning during the summer, I found them again and made sure they'd get our of their bottle this year! :) How perfect are these for a fairy activity? I only had blue on hand but an array of colors would have been delightful. We called them "fairy water pearls" to add some appeal to this transfer activity. It was very much loved and "Z" transferred and transferred over again. She especially loved how the last 1-2 beads would sort of flee when the spoon came near by!<br />
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Polka dot mushrooms are fun! I made these myself a few years ago and they've always been well received. This time, we chose to count the dots on each mushroom. It was easy until it got to 9 and 10 (my little one would count up to 16 dots at times!) :) We also scattered them for a wild mushroom foraging activity. Mushroom foraging is very popular in our area and the kids desperately want to go pick their own food in the forest every time they see neighbors come back with a basket full of cool mushrooms. As such, I announced that the famous Amanita Muscaria is a toxic mushroom and that although it can be found in our local forest, it should not be eaten (well, some people swear it can but only with proper prep)! :)<br />
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A crafty little idea that I've seen on so many different <a href="http://lifewithmoorebabies.blogspot.com/2013/05/pipe-cleaner-bubble-wands_12.html">blogs</a> this summer and last. Children love blowing bubbles and well, mine are no different. I've made my own bubble solution countless times now but had never made my own wand. In this activity, Zahavah made her own fairy wand using pipe cleaners and decorative beads. They can be shaped any way really and of various sizes as well. I'm not sure what she enjoyed most: the making the wand or the "using" of the wand! :)</div>
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How do fairies make all these rainbow colors? They mix them of course. Using translucent "tokens" in the primary colors, we discovered how two colors put together could give use secondary colors. This was nothing new to Zahavah who has mixed her own paint colors a while ago but it was a different, mess-free, approach.</div>
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Of course, I had to keep up with "regular" stuff too. We revised our "S,m,a,t" sandpaper letters and added other non-thematic elements such as the mini cylinder block 1.<br />
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Now, fairies spend a fair amount of time in the garden so it's only normal they should know about plants, right? 3 part cards, booklets, wall chart, puzzle, any of these can be helpful in presenting/reinforcing this kind of learning. I chose to present a real plant: my beloved orchid and a set of 3 part cards provided graciously by <a href="http://thehelpfulgarden.blogspot.de/2012/11/montessori-botany-nomenclature-set-for.html">The Helpful Garden</a> (which by the way provides the most amazing and beautiful FREE Montessori materials by the way). </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-15234217455686459932014-10-03T05:42:00.002-07:002014-10-03T05:42:43.144-07:00Down by the Seashore - Part 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">E</span>very good thing has apparently to come to an end. As such, last week, we said good-bye to our beloved "Down by the Seashore" theme. This thematic is definitely a keeper. I chose not to include any ocean components this week but that is only because I'd like to give our oceans the focus they deserve. Come Summer, we'll most likely have time to allow for an entire week to this beautiful topic. Until then, here are a few more activities Zahavah did during her beach week.</div>
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Folding beach towels. Most toddlers are delighted to help when it comes to big people's chores. Zahavah being closer to 4, chores are starting to look a bit more like such in many aspects. I tried to disguise this practical life activity into something less formal than you'd usually see in a Montessori setting. I provided two washcloths, both marked with a big fat line down the middle and told Z that these were her plush cats' beach towels and needed folding so they could be packed for their next trip. After a demonstration, Z quickly set to work and even had some cats come pretend they went to the beach...<br />
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I truly wish I had access to a bigger variety of fabric but for now, I guess we'll call it a "start". For a first time matching fabric by touch, I didn't want it to be overwhelming either! I served this activity as beach towels matching. I had some fleece towels, some lace towels and a netting towel set. In the future, I'm hoping to get my hands on some burlap, silk, cotton, leather and such. This was, by the way, a very quick activity for my 3 year old. She matched the towels in no time so I furthered the activity by asking her which she'd rather use as a beach towel and why. We discussed the thickness, the sand possibly passing through others, and so on.</div>
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An immense thank you to Katie at <a href="http://www.giftofcuriosity.com/">The Gift of Curiosity</a> for putting together this HUGE printable pack with a beach theme. Zahavah is not much into "paperwork" but she sometimes like to "imitate" her big brother (who actually would like to see less "paperwork") so I printed several pages out of the pack for little Z in case she'd want to sit down and "write". To my biggest surprise, she loved this so much that she went right through the dozen pages I printed for her in one sitting!</div>
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With a theme like "Down by the Seashore", it's hard to escape the beach sand connection...so, I brought it in disguised under a dry pouring activity. Zahavah was very good at it and loved it too. She really wanted to poke her fingers into the small pitchers too! :)</div>
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I love the smell of sunscreen, don't you? It just reminds me of a calm, serene and warm beach. Whenever I smell it, it brings me back! For this activity, I thought I'd do a twist on the traditional Montessori smelling bottles by asking Zahavah to help me with the newest sunscreen fragrances. I provided 3 different scents and they all had to be matched (blindfolded). In the end, she was welcomed to choose whichever fragrance she thought would be best suited for a new suntan lotion! If you're curious to know what we used inside, it's quite delirious: vinegar, hot sauce and a flower scented hand lotion! :) Needless to say, it was easy to match AND decide which would be best in a suntan lotion...<br />
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Zahavah would have loved to wash the big seashell but I felt it would be overwhelming. Instead, I provided her with another smaller and simpler seashell so she could scrub it. She's previously not enjoyed the meticulous washing of items so I tried to make it more fun for her by letting her explore how to wash more than how she should be washing. Not very Montessori in that aspect but I'm hoping she'll see how best to wash by herself!</div>
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Pretending to go on vacation is neat. Going is even better but we do not have any plans at this time. Still, it's better to be prepared and as such, I set out an activity where Zahavah had to select what to bring to the beach. Would she pick a bathing suit? A pair of pair of pajamas? I let her pick reminder her we would be at the beach on a warm sunny day. Once she was happy with her picked items, she had to fill her beach bag with her folded belongings.</div>
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Art is something Zahavah loves. She likes craft a lot though so I always try to think of things we could make together. As far as painting and drawing goes, she already does a lot with her brother during our art appreciation classes so when it's "preschool time", I try to keep it simple and fun. For this week, I picked a first palette craft, which recreates a beach scene. It was very fun to do for everyone who tried their hand at it and I highly recommend it! I modified the version found online to suit my preschooler's desires by the way. She wanted to use her own props instead of making them out of clay and preferred using play dough for the sand so her small animals could truly dig in the sand. Check out the steps and materials necessary on <a href="http://www.firstpalette.com/Craft_themes/Nature/minibeach/minibeach.html">First Palette's website</a>.</div>
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Planned on using a sugar caster tool for this but it seems to be missing, so I put a kid size slotted spatula instead. The goal was to find the seashells hiding in the sand using the tool. I used real beach sand and real seashells found on an Israeli beach. They were small and as such, provided a better challenge than the store-bought kind.</div>
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Our first Nature Center for the year featured...you got it: beach treasures! I tried to provide a variety of items for exploring and touching but as we are far from the beach and not big into trinkets, we did not have that much in our center...On hand, I had an array of seashells. Some bought in stores, some provided by Adrian's own personal collection (he loves collecting shells at the beach!). I also had the big "centerpiece" seashell, a souvenir from the Bahamas. I added some real beach sand as well to remind the kids that beach sand is really just rocks that were eroded. This sand really showed that (thank you to the beautiful Florida panhandle beaches for their donation). I also added a vase from Tenerife to show that not all beach sand is beige. My vase included grey/black sand from the volcanic beach of the island. Beach glass, sand dollars and natural sponges were also in the center for exploration. Even my oldest took interest in the center and wanted to know more. "Was beach glass real glass?", "How did it get so smooth?", "Where did it come from?", "What are the holes under the sand dollars?", "It was alive?", "Where can I get my own huge seashell, mama?", Sponges grow?", "but I went to Cyprus too and didn't see any!"</div>
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A great and easy language activity can easily be prepared with pictures printed at home or shown onto a computer monitor. For this activity, I picked a few pictures of Zahavah at the beach and asked her to tell me about the picture (the other ones were put aside for other days). When she got stalled, I'd ask her questions to prompt for more information. Where was it? (can you believe she remembers? "Israel!", "Sardinia!") What are you doing? Was the water cold? Did you collect seashells? She got quite talkative and loved the opportunity to share about her day at the beach and...requesting another one! :) </div>
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As a first thermal activity, I thought we'd do a twist on those metal thermal bottles by using little cups filled with water. I prepared 3 different cups and doubled them. As such Zahavah had 2 very cold cups, 2 very warm cups (not scalding hot of course!) and 2 cups at body temperature. She had to feel the water in each cup with her finger and decide which matched which and finally had to tell me which she'd rather swim in. Can you guess which that was?</div>
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Felt swimsuit anyone? I couldn't resists putting a little twist on the color tablets! As this was our first introduction to the tablets this year, I prepared the little swimsuits in only the 3 first colors: red, blue and yellow. Needless to say, it was an easy match and the 3 period lesson lasted about just as long as 3 seconds! :)</div>
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Well it's about that time when a child should learn the letter sounds, right? Zahavah will be turning 4 this winter and so I'm starting to introduce the sandpaper letters. At this age, my son already knew the names and sounds of the letters but Z is not exactly interested in letters. I'll be trying to change that this year. The first letters introduced in a Montessori setting are the ones above so I'll be working on these with Zahavah until she masters them. Her big brother was so happy to see these again!<br />
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Play dough is, needless to say, a staple in most preschool aged kids' environment. I'm afraid our playdoh has been used so much that it is now either dry or of funky coloring due to color mixing so I did what I do every so often: made a batch of homemade play dough. I didn't dye it so it looked somewhat like sand and was used to...replicate a beach this of course! I put tiny accessories in a basket and Z loved decorating her "sand" to turn it into a nice beach. She even invited her Disney princesses to come relax on the beach and added more seashells for them to collect! This activity came out every day...several times a day! Thanks to <a href="http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com/2010/07/beach-sensory-tub-playdough.html">Counting Coconuts</a> for inspiring this one!<br />
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Not nearly as popular as the play dough beach was the play dough prints and fossils center... I liked it. Very pretty but it did not fascinate my daughter one bit. :(<br />
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Zahavah is not a pro at handling the metal insets (in our case...the plastic insets) but she loves them. Her favorite thing to do with them is to pretend they are puzzles. This week though, I showed her how a new way to use them. We practiced the single outline of the circle. I showed her how I transformed my circle into a beach ball and she was sold. Couldn't resist making her own beach ball using the inset...neither could my 6 year old actually! :) We also discussed the shape she created and went about looking for more circles in the house.</div>
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I thought this week would be perfect to introduce the rough and smooth board...after all, it is sand on the board! Zahavah felt the rough sandpaper and the smooth balsam wood with her fingers and declared it felt like sand on the top. She didn't like the texture as much as she liked the bottom of course. We discussed the difference between smooth and rough and went about the house finding rough and smooth items to reinforce the concept. Z loves to move so I try to give her opportunities to leave her rug.<br />
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And that is partly how our first school week got started...For more beach-themed activities presented during our first school week, stay tuned! :)</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">L</span>ike most everything in life, changes sometimes have to be made to ensure the timelessness of the invention. Such was the case with our <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2013/08/our-classroom-calendar-bit-of-history.html">calendar cork board built last year</a>. I knew this day would come and was not afraid to change things a bit. I kept most of the board intact actually since my oldest is reluctant to change but wanted to adapt it a bit to add some elements; namely a section called "In the News" and another one called "This Day in History".</div>
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I had those ideas back when I first put the board together so I knew I'd have room when the time would come for these additions but I still had to shift other pockets slightly. Both pockets were well received by the kids. Now, there isn't always "fresh news" or a post about "this day in history" but when the sections are filled, the kids are always excited. I try to have at least one pocket filled each day. </div>
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In the News section, I simply print off...fresh news! Nothing that would not be age appropriate of course and nothing long but always something with a picture. I also try to pick news that I know will appeal my son and daughter. For example, last week, my son was excited to read about the big asteroid that passed close to Earth. He was also jumping with joy when he saw that yet another volcano erupted (sorry Papua-New Guinea!). </div>
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This Day in History is also something fun to have. Every month, I pull up what happened years ago on that day and choose one for each day; one that once again, will be relevant to my youngsters and geared towards preschool/primary kids. Sometimes, I actually don't find anything they could relate to and don't put anything down for that day. So far, Adrian was most excited about the day in history when a race was conducted in between a horse and a steam locomotive! He could not believe the horse actually won! :) </div>
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Above our board, I've also added, using tack, reward charts, a behavioral chart, the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem of the United States. I find it important that as citizens, my children know the words to both (besides, if they were in a public American school, chances are, they'd recite at least the pledge daily). Each morning, we recite and sing. Sometimes, we watch a video of other kids/performers singing the anthem too. The behavioral chart idea actually came from another blog I'm now following : <a href="http://fun-in-first.blogspot.com/">Fun in First</a>. Although Jodi uses the chart for an entire first grade classroom, I thought I could use it for Adrian and Zahavah. To read more about how it works, <a href="http://fun-in-first.blogspot.com/2011/06/behavior-system.html">head here</a>. I started using these after Adrian showed resistance to his "extended" school days. It curbs most complains now and gets him to do his work neatly and at a regular pace. At the end of the month, I have a prize each child gets for having at least 15 stars on their chart. Of course, the charts do not include week-ends! ;)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">S</span>chool officially started on August 25 for us and that is also when our new reading program was implemented. Don't get me wrong, we read plenty last year and the years before. In fact, I've been reading to both my children daily since the day they were born (that's right...I actually had some books in my hospital bag!) but August 25 marked the beginning of a new era in terms of book selection. In the past, I always picked books to match our weekly theme and based on the kids' interests. This year, it's different. My oldest being 6 years old (and in his first grade), I knew thematic units would not be a weekly occurrence but I also knew that I want to shift my focus during our storytime: I wanted to deepen his reading comprehension. What's more...his little 3 year old sister wouldn't mind. She'd still enjoy the stories and could very well participate in our discussions afterwards. So here is, without further introduction, the book list I created for one of our concept explored: Key details (who, when, when, what, how, why, of the story) ! These were the books we read during the week of August 25.<br />
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Owl Moon by Jane Yolen</div>
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Elmer by David McKee</div>
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The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant</div>
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Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Croning</div>
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Weslandia by Paul Fleischman</div>
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If you Were a Penguin by Florence Minor</div>
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky</div>
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Fire! Fire! by Gail Gibbons</div>
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How Much, How Many, How Far, How Heavy, How Tall is 1000? by Helen Nolan</div>
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Hungry, Hungry, Sharks by Joana Cole</div>
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Of course, not every single book was a big hit but others were! I've even been asked to get some of these titles for our ever growing private collection. When picking books, I try to make a conscious effort to include both poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, short books and long books. I also try to pick multicultural titles here and there. </div>
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This list does not include what Adrian reads on his own either. The books above are only the ones we read aloud. Later, I'll post about our guided reading sessions and our leveled reading list.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-58780561687921527332014-09-13T03:38:00.000-07:002015-01-23T05:59:10.983-08:001st Grade Home School Subjects & Curriculum<div style="text-align: justify;">
First grade! Never in my wildest dreams had I thought I would homeschool my kids during grade school. I somehow always thought I'd be back to work and that the kids would attend public school. BUT, this is not what happened. Being that we live in Germany, attending local school means one should probably be quite fluent in German and while my son did attend German Kindergarten two years, I still felt uncomfortable sending him with the big German-speaking kids. I also knew that one day, we'd be back on American soil and that he'd need to read, write and count in English. Unfortunately, the "English" school is quite far. Neither me nor my husband felt like doing the driving everyday, especially with a 3 year old in the back...And so began our homeschooling journey. I researched tons and made lot of decisions, mostly based on our "home state" of New York. New York requires me to instruct my first grader in at least 12 subjects over 180 days (aka 36 weeks, 5 hours a day). Because we live abroad though, I do not have to follow their requirements but will still abide by them simply because they are stringent and well...to my liking overall! Besides I do intend to send my kids back into the public domain once we are back "home". :) Below is the "course of study" I designed:</div>
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Singapore Math - Primary Math 1A + 1B (U.S. Ed.)</div>
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Apologia - Young Explorer Series (Zoology 1,2,3 + Botany)</div>
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KHT Montessori - Botany, Physical Science, Astronomy, Geology, Ecology albums</div>
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Abeka - My America & My World<br />
The Story of the World: Volume 1</div>
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Lollipop Lagic K-2 Book 1<br />
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That above list was designed over the course of a summer. All the materials are here and being used at this time, BUT...I already do not like some of these materials. *sigh* It all sounded good on paper (and oh boy! did I read reviews!) but once my son started working with some, it quickly became evident that it wouldn't work out. For example, while I love the idea behind the series "Life of Fred", it doesn't do much for my six years old. He'd rather be doing actual math problems than read how "Fred" uses math in his daily life through these chapter books (I WILL keep the series for when he's older I think and starts asking; "why does math matter?"). In the end, it's a live and learn situation! :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-71814276427746611652014-09-10T09:13:00.000-07:002014-09-13T03:36:18.774-07:00"Hiatus"<div style="text-align: justify;">
A little while ago, I put a notice on Sorting Sprinkles' Facebook page in regards to my long break from the blog. I thought it might be nice to also put a notice here, in case I did not reach everybody:</div>
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Sometime during the late Spring, I started making inquiries about 1st grade for my son Adrian. Being that we live abroad, I knew the choices for schooling would be somewhat "limited". In the end, we decided to go the homeschooling route. Of course, it is much more time consuming than the local school option but at the same time, we all thought it was the best decision. Adrian has since started first grade at home and things are slowly starting to adjust themselves. I am hoping to be able to start planning some educational and thematic activities for my little one very soon. When this happens, I'll do my very best to share these with you. For now, I only wanted to drop by with a quick "hello" and some news! In case anyone is curious as to what Adrian is doing this year, I'll post about it shortly. Thanks for your continued support!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-28284132506635573732014-07-28T06:05:00.004-07:002014-07-28T06:05:53.036-07:00Dr. Getzwell's Doctor's Office Pretend Play<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>t has been a very long time since my last post, don't you guys think? I'm sorry I've been keeping you all waiting. Summer is always busy with little trips here and there and lots of friends and family coming by to visit us so I'm always a bit slower at posting during the season but today, I'm taking the time to post about our last pretend play station. In anticipation for a doctor's visit, I put together a Doctor's Office pretend play station. The weather was nice and warm so everything was set up outside to the delight of my little ones. Here's how we set up the play:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Doctor's Office was complete with <a href="http://professorpoppins.blogspot.de/2013/03/doctor-pretend-play-kit.html">patient forms</a>, <a href="http://professorpoppins.blogspot.de/2013/03/doctor-pretend-play-kit.html">Prescription Pad</a>, <br />
Notepad and of course, lollipops for the brave kids who receive vaccines! :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daddy provided a white shirt for our local doctor as well as<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the examination room, one could find swabs, cotton balls, bandages,<br />
tongue depressors, syringes (really just colorful pens shaped like syringes),<br />
gloves and the <a href="http://professorpoppins.blogspot.de/2013/03/doctor-pretend-play-kit.html">physical exam forms</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zahavah getting Adrian to perform an <a href="http://k-hardingham1013-dc.blogspot.de/2012/04/image-brief-three-scale-frame-format.html">eye exam</a></td></tr>
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The Doctor's Office was quite a popular station. Both kids enjoyed it. Both played patient and both played the doctor's role as well. They loved the non-latex gloves and the fact that I allowed the use od real bandages and blood pressure machine. Sadly, although they were very attractive, the forms didn't get much attention. They just preferred to be hands-on that day I guess...<br />
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Throughout the summer, we also enjoyed other stations. I've linked them all up to the main post so if you want to get some ideas as to how we set up a car wash or grooming salon, <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/04/pretend-play-stations-invitations.html">click here</a>! We will hopefully have time to set up the remaining stations before summer ends!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">T</span>he post office is a place we rarely "visit" but somehow the children still know this is where we ship and pick up our packages and as such...the post office is an awesome place. For this station, I thought we'd do more than simply pick up packages and drop them off though. I wanted the children to wrap and "address" their packages, affix postage and cancel their "stamps", etc. I also wanted to offer "extra" activities that correlated with the post office: a philatelic society where the children could learn about stamps, handle a few and start a collection. Needless to say, they quite liked that club and are quite happy to have their own little collection of stamps...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Post Office Register; a nice week means we<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few small empty boxes, air packs and bubble wrap. The children<br />
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stickers shaped like stamps!) for sale and canceling stamp.</td></tr>
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Sadly, more and more stamps are stickers and can't quite be peeled.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For our Philatelic Society, I purchased (as a treat!) two stamp kits:<br />
a dinosaur one for my son and an insect one for my daughter.<br />
They examined their stamp and learned how to mount them!</td></tr>
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Wrapping objects has long been an activity the kids enjoy. They sometimes borrow gift bags and silk paper to make pretend presents just so they can open them, so of course, the post office packaging section was busy for a while. Stamping the stamps was also a big winner (who doesn't like stamps?) but not nearly as much as the Philatelic Society. They loved opening their little kits and looking at their new stamps. Mounting them with the hinges was rather difficult so we didn't do a lot of that but discussing where the stamps came from, what was featured on each, trying to sort them by collection...that was good enough for them! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-8894926186218692222014-06-16T05:22:00.001-07:002014-06-16T05:22:35.870-07:00Super Propre Car Wash Pretend Play<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">W</span>ho is getting hot summery temps? I must say last week was a super hot, sunny and "sadly" non-breezy week for us in Germany. We hit the pool but also needed more to keep us cool. The kids suggested popsicles and gelato but I thought better...something more lasting and less calorific: a car wash! Oh the fun we had! Mind you if you plan on trying this at home, make sure that like me, the kids (and possibly yourself) are in bathing suits. They will get wet and that is a big part of the fun and refreshment of a hot "summer" day. Our pretend play was indeed a bit less pretend this week as the kids really got to wash cars but well, I didn't go so far as to let them wash our real vehicles...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to the Super Propre Car Wash! Sponges, cloths, squeegee,<br />
bucket of soapy water, hose, "window cleaner", duster, you name it!</td></tr>
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The car wash was the pretend play station my son most related to. I had mentioned that we'd do this one as soon as the temperatures would get into the 30s (Celsius) and there was no pushing this one further by one day. He was looking forward to it and participated longer than he usually does in our pretend play sessions (he is very anchored in reality and doesn't do the pretend thingy...). My little girl, well, she is asking everyday to host a car wash despite the fact that the temperatures have dropped by OVER 10 degrees now. :) She washed and detailed her car for over 1hour that day! That's right! Simply loved it. But then again, she loves to play pretend. Loved the <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/05/puuurfect-paws-grooming-salon-pretend.html">grooming salon</a>, liked the <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/06/aux-beaux-pieds-shoe-store-pretend-play.html">shoe store</a> and <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/06/childrens-library-pretend-play.html">library set up</a> as well and will probably enjoy whatever we'll do next! To see our <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/04/pretend-play-stations-invitations.html">pretend play station line up for the summer</a>, check out my previous post <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/04/pretend-play-stations-invitations.html">here</a>.</div>
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P.S. Let the kids be the kids today...if you put the hose out for use, let them handle it by themselves after a short lesson on how it works and how to use it. They will be so proud of themselves and it's good for their fine motor skills to work that trigger. You may, on the other hand, make it clear that the hose is for rinsing the play cars only before the final hand-out...You'd be surprised at how creative kids can be when it comes to watering down the "stuff" around them...:)</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A</span>s a child, I loved playing "library". To tell you the truth, I think it had something to do with those little library cards in pockets housed at the back of the books. I simply loved stamping them and changing the dates on the stamp and all that. Nowadays, the pockets, cards with return dates and stampers have pretty much disappeared from libraries. When my children accidentally find an empty pocket at the end of a book we borrowed from the library, they always ask me what it's for. :) Times are changing... As such, for our library pretend play station, there was sadly no stamper with cards and pockets (although I DID consider it). Instead, the entirety of that was replaced by a "simple" scanning device such as the one we use at our own library! :) The weather was gorgeous and warm this week by the way so we played outside. (I apologize in advance for the glare in the pictures!).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our library fundraiser: gummy worms for bookworms! :)<br />
These were very popular indeed! Bag topper: <a href="http://simpleasthatblog.com/2011/07/summer-reading-log-free-printable.html">Simple As That</a></td></tr>
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Library Pretend Play is pretty much a classic station but I felt this one required a bit more involvement on my part as I did read the stories. I do prefer when pretend play is really all about the kids doing the actions and using their imagination. Also, the kids didn't enjoy this set up as much as the <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/05/puuurfect-paws-grooming-salon-pretend.html">grooming salon</a> and <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/06/aux-beaux-pieds-shoe-store-pretend-play.html">shoe store</a> we did previously. I think the warmth of the day (that redness on the cheeks ain't from rouge!) had to do with it but it might also have been due to the fact that there wasn't enough to "pretend about/with". Once they were done looking at the books (and they knew 90% of them), they wanted to move on to story and craft time. That was the best part for them for sure. Oh well. So what's next? Well, they are forecasting a heat wave for us so I think we might be heading to the car wash station next week but if the heat ceases or if the thunder clouds roll in, we'll pick another station from our <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/04/pretend-play-stations-invitations.html">line up of pretend play stations</a>!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">F</span>irst things first: I must thank my beautiful children for inspiring this pretend play station YEARS ago...That's right. For years I've witnessed them trying on my shoes and my husband's shoes and somehow, I always thought it'd be a neat thing to make an activity out of it since they liked it so much. Somehow, kids, young and old, always seem to have a fascination for walking around in someone's else shoes (literally and figuratively I must say...). This set up would, at last, provide a good, lasting opportunity to try on an endless array of footwear (heels, oxfords, slippers, sandals...). I had all the best intentions on making this playdate outside once again but the weather had different plans...all week. It rained and rained and rained some more and let's not mention how cold it was. Although we did the <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/05/puuurfect-paws-grooming-salon-pretend.html">grooming salon station</a> last week under the sun and its 28C rays, this week, it was a big "generous" 8C. Not too warm for the tootsies. As such, I set up the pretend play station in the "man's attic" (shhh. We've put everything back since). Here's how we rolled...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our store also provided some services such as an in-store shoe cobbler . There, one could "buy" <br />
insoles, shoe products, laces, etc and get old shoes fixed!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the best shoe cobbler in town: recommended me<br />
a neutral wax for some scuffing on my tan heels!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shoe Store Pretend Play : Shoe boxes and little blocks will<br />
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And that folks, is how we managed our shoe store pretend play station. Next week, we'll be hosting a brand new themed station and hopefully, it will be just as exciting (and outside please!). To see the upcoming stations we have this summer, check out our <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/04/pretend-play-stations-invitations.html">line up here</a>.<br />
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P.S. Let the children be the children today (aka you are not allowed to cry if they damage the shoes you put out...thus do not put out the ones you'd cry over if they were to be ill-treated! :) ). Also, use your good judgment when the kids try on and walk with the shoes...Some children may be too young for heels for example or may need a hand to walk steadily. Supervision will be key!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I</span>f I'm not mistaken, I have not posted a new menu since last Autumn...I truly hope you guys have not been waiting for me to post a new one to cook up something delicious though! :) Anyway, in case you are looking for inspiration for the summer, I am publishing today my June Menu. Clicking on the picture will enlarge it and you'll be able to see the delicious meals listed but if you'd like to print out your own copy, contact me through Facebook or by e-mail me and I'll send you a free pdf copy. (I eventually plan on putting up these free menus on a file sharing site but until it's done...you'll have to go through me! :) )</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-14262420715331450592014-05-29T05:23:00.000-07:002014-05-29T05:23:20.620-07:00Busy Bags for Kindergartners / Boredom Busters<div style="text-align: justify;">
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This summer though, the school work load will probably be drastically diminished, leaving me with a gap of "quiet time" to fill in (we always try to keep the house relatively quiet during naptimes). Sure my Kindergartner can keep himself "entertained" for a while but not for "2 hours" every day and I could always use a few minutes to...say...plan future school units, cook meals, work out, shower, schedule appointments, pay bills... you know, the usual stuff! :) With these thoughts in mind, I decided to give the busy bags/boxes a try. But exactly just what are busy bags and boxes?</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A busy bag is a tote</span> (often a bag or small box) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">into which a person will find all that is needed to accomplish one activity with no help.</span> These activities are usually geared towards the toddlers-kindergartners (2-5) age group and are often designed to be done quietly and are also usually educational. The activities found in the bags have also usually been deemed age appropriate for the person they are intended for, therefore annihilating any possible frustrations on the behalf of the recipient as they are expected to work on the bags by themselves. </div>
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Many people choose to limit the amount of time the person spends on each bag and instead provides several bags for rotation. A common scheme is the daily bag replacement (new bag everyday of the week but same bags week after week). Others prefer to replace the bag after a week has elapsed to really give the chance to an older child to finish a project for example (some simply hand the bag to the child whenever and take it whenever as well.). For my part, I chose to go the daily way, providing a new bin (each labeled "Monday" through "Friday") containing a few self-contained bags for each day and allowing my son access to a bin of his choice on the week-ends.</div>
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Inside his bins, I am aiming to provide a minimum of three bags (thus providing a choice of three activities daily), each filled with an autonomous project (after initial presentation of course). These bags and bins will, needless to say, be changed every so often. Projects will be completed after a certain amount of time, others won't grab any attention and so on, but for now, here is what I have gathered for my near 6 year old (he is currently 5, turning 6 in the summer):<br />
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-Melissa & Doug Reusable Habitats Sticker Pad</div>
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-A few "I Spy..." Books by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick</div>
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-Lincoln Log Horseshoe Hill Station</div>
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-Legos with a project book (Legos are always available but if I add a booklet filled with projects to build, they'll be attractive)</div>
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-Montessori Insets with a booklet of drawings (my son will first have to figure out which insets were used to make that drawing and then do his own and personalized it)</div>
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-Wood blocks (aka floating foam) projects with booklet (assembly of birdhouse and such with the Durafoam according to instructions) (blocks and projects come from Step2's Real Project Workshop)</div>
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-Lite Brite (project sheets came with the flatscreen)</div>
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-Cutting Projects (homemade. My son loves cutting different materials and shapes so I'll prepare some projects for him to cut and piece together)</div>
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Of course, these <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">choices are based on</span> my son's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">needs and interest</span>s (for example...I know he could use some extra fine motor work so needlepoint was my pick...not his but the dinosaur puzzle...that will probably be a high interest activity for him; something he'd have picked himself!). I'll also add that building these bins wasn't cheap considering my choice of projects but I think they will go a long way each day and week as they will be out during a limited time only (aka little sister's naptime on weekdays only...and only during our summer break). It was important to me to make each activity a little bit a of treat and a challenge too. Sure I could have put a play dough can in a bag and called it a day but play dough is always available in our pantry and fridge...so the interest would not have been very grand. By the way...Bags and bins for the younger crowds are mostly homemade and usually built pretty inexpensively. I'm starting to think of some for my when my little one stops napping in case you're interested so I may post about hers at a later time.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16286098109706338772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145288861226756862.post-45957435789492792492014-05-26T05:23:00.004-07:002014-05-26T05:23:52.738-07:00"Puuurfect Paws" Grooming Salon Pretend Play<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">H</span>ave you hosted a Grooming Salon pretend play date yet? If not...it's a must! I don't know if it's because it was our first time experimenting with a "real" dramatic play set up or because our theme was really fun but it was a huge success and I cannot wait to put together our next pretend play time. In the meantime, here's how this one was set up (and because a picture is worth a 1,000 words...this will be mostly pictures and few words...):<br />
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As Europe's finest weather has finally arrived, I chose to set up our station outside for everyone to enjoy the warm (ok...a tad bit hot) and sunny weather. The children helped me carry everything in and out of the house but I did place everything without them prior to playtime for the surprise effect. I also gave them a tour of the salon once it was ready and pretended they were new salon staff and had to know where everything was and how it worked...Then, the fun began. My son didn't care for it nearly as much as my daughter did but that was not exactly a big surprise. He never liked plush toys, never played pretend and well...is almost 6 years old. My daughter on the other hand thought everything was so pretty, loves plushes (especially cats) and plays pretend daily. She remained at the grooming salon for over an hour...and to this day, still asks me to bring back most of the items used in the salon so she can groom her kitty cats. :)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrons had to "fill in" a <a href="http://www.4loveofpets.com/pdf/Snout-To-Tail.pdf">questionnaire</a> about the service requested for their pet that day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I created loyalty cards for the salon so they could be stamped after each visit. <br />
This was a very popular feature!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The grooming salon's bath area with a wash basin, plenty of "hand towels" and "washcloths".<br />
Lots of small empty bottles, clean combs and brushes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Content of the salon' s bath area basket: Tried to keep within a certain color scheme<br />
and decorated with silk flowers to make everything pleasing to the eyes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grooming Salon's Grooming and Relaxation Area: Pet books and everything for pet grooming:<br />
brushes, combs, dryer, swabs, cotton balls, etc. Wanted to add out electric clipper but they were<br />
still charged so I decided against it! :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Relaxation Corner of our Salon: cushions & pet books!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handmade scarves, ties and bow ties for kitties and doggies:<br />
I bought elastic and scraps of cotton and made these in an evening!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The grooming area of the grooming salon featured lots of grooming<br />
and styling tools...all presented on a nice tray! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doggies were treated to nice felt bones that day: Made<br />
these for our pet unit two years ago.</td></tr>
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Ta da! That is how our first pretend play station of the season was set up. We have many more to come. I actually intend to put together one every week and I do expect most of them to be taking place outside as well (love spending time outdoors!). For a list of the stations to be taking place this summer, <a href="http://sortingsprinkles.blogspot.com/2014/04/pretend-play-stations-invitations.html">click here</a>.<br />
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P.S. Interruptions during pretend play are never fun...If you have some ground rules to establish...Do it prior to the kids getting to work. Knowing my kids, I knew they'd play nicely with the station but I also knew it was our first time taking the plushes outside and wanted to make something clear: No plushes were to touch the ground. :)<br />
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