I had intended to introduce shapes to Indie (18
months) and reintroduce 3-D shapes to Bear (4 1/2) this week
but...that didn't happen yet...I even had my whole blog post ready
for what we did and how it went. Guess I got ahead of myself a little
bit....
Today Bear went straight for the skeleton cards (montessori print shop). I
went through a three period lesson again to help him remember the
names. I introduced them a couple of weeks ago and it's been a
favorite since.
After that we started looking through the Schick
Notebook Charts which is a beautiful book of anatomical charts
that I found while thrifting. My degree is in biology and I find it
hard to resist books in that field. I had purchased it for myself but
the kids showed so much interest I put it with our materials!
It was a good 90 minutes or so before he came up for
air. Refreshed and ready for the next task of the day.
This afternoon was a perfect example of child lead
learning.
It's so easy to get caught up in the newest
inspiration on pinterest or other blogs and forget that the kids may
have a perfectly acceptable version of their day all on their own.
I'm taking a minute today to remember those things
and be so very thankful for the flexibility to learn based on
interests with no time constraints. One of the very reasons we jumped
into this whole Montessori thing in the first place.
What have your kids taught you this week? Was
it what you expected?
-Lauren
Lovely to see children interested in and learning about the sciences! Great job!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa! But to be honest, I just provided the environment. He did most of this on his own!
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