Learning Materials at 22 Months and {Learn & Play Link Up}

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A summary of learning materials for Vito this month:

TOP: feather color sorting using Galt Pop Up toy, parts of the body toddler edition, Duplo Baby Zoo

MIDDLE:  Alphabet puzzle by Hape, Letter e phonics sound and objects, zoo animal patterns

BOTTOM:  letter E craft, zoo animal tracks, Dear Zoo story telling

 

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Here are the featured activities for this week!

 

 

 

Fall Sensory Bin with Practical Life Activities from Living Montessori Now

Seashell Washing Practical Life Activity from Christian Montessori Network

Montessori Math Introduction to Toddler from Mama’s Happy Hive

Squiggle Monster Craft from There’s Just One Mommy

Hacks for travelling with Kids from Child Led Life

10 Crossing Midline Activities for Toddlers from Growing Hands-on Kids

 

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• Free Educational Printables
• Family-Oriented Activities
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Letter E: Parts of the Body Unit Activities

Last week, I put up a body parts unit study for Vito with emphasis on the letter E.  I’d like to share some of the materials and activities I prepared for him, of which he truly enjoyed.

1.  Recognition of body parts.

Vito knows most of his body parts so I introduced our Body Parts Cards to him for abstract presentation.  The cards were used for identification, but in different ways. 

• I would show the card and ask “what’s this?” Vito would answer and at the same time point to that part of his body.
• I used the doll for identification (3rd person) like “where is the dolly’s hair?”
• I could see him at times looking at the cards and imitate the picture.  So cute!

We are using my The Parts of the Body cards which you can get from here.

2.  Letter E objects

I’ve got three objects for our letter e:  eye, elephant and egg.  I so love this method! To expand the child’s vocabulary, learn phonics and letters all at the same time!

Vito always goes to this tray and would give me the object and say its name.  As for letter e, I love that he can remember the sound of ‘e’ whenever he encounters this in books! How amazing!

3.  Writing using our Egg shaped crayons

We are using Crayola here.

4.  Tracing the body

Oh yes, this was fun! Mavi participated as well!      

                            

5.  Letter E for egg

So he worked on peeling the eggshells…

and devoured the egg!

                        

And we later on used the eggshell in our letter E craft.

 

6.  Making a face

I cut out some different shapes, used a yarn for the hair and paper plate for the head and we have this cute face!  Vito was happy enough to wipe out all the glue as well.

7.  Body Parts Puzzle

Yes, if there’s one time that a little toddler can do with body parts is to start using a simple dress-up bear puzzle, with head, body and legs portion and being emphasized.  He couldn’t fit perfectly the pieces yet but he knows exactly where to  put the head, limb and legs.  We’ll do more of this!

And that’s about our activities for learning the body parts.  Don’t forget to pin this for later!

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Animals Around the World and {Learn & Play Link Up}

Mavi still couldn’t get enough of his animal collections.  After putting Vito to sleep, I saw this in the carpet laid out, sorting his animal collections according to the continent in which they thrive. The continent puzzle is from Tower High Learning and the animals are combinations of Schleich and Safari Toobs.

He also managed to use our Animal Fact cards. Oh we love these cards! It indicates in what habitat these animals belong.

 

Aside from sorting, I would see him tell stories of these animals, each one has a role and portraying a character. Quite cute and funny too!

Welcome to the Learn & Play Link Party!

Here are the featured activities for this week!

 

 

 

Pirate Tot School from Every Star Is Different

Montessori Inspired Frog Activities from Mama’s Happy Hive

Lion King Unit Study from Study At Home Mama

Dinosaur Ice Melt Science Experiment from Living Montessori Now

 

Now it’s time for this week’s link party! This is a BRAND new link up for all blog posts that include learn and play activities and hands-on education for kids. We are excited to read your blog posts and to see what you have to share! Please link up below and grab our button to display on your blog.

If you are a blogger, share your family friendly posts here. We are looking for things which include:

• Montessori Education
• Homeschool
• Sensory Play
• Tot and Preschool Trays
• Fine and Gross Motor Activities
• Kids in the Kitchen
• Healthy Recipes for Kids
• Arts and Crafts
• Natural Living
• Free Educational Printables
• Family-Oriented Activities
• Healthy Living

Your post will be featured on each of our blogs where we will pick our favourite posts every other week. That means there is more of a chance that you will be featured!

Everyone, please meet our link party hosts:

Christian Montessori Blog ~ Please visit our CMN FB group ~ Pinterest

Vanessa from Mama’s Happy Hive~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter

Jennifer from Study at Home Mama~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter

Marie from Child Led Life~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter

Jae from Pinay Homeschooler~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter

Heather from Golden Reflections Blog~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter

Renae from Every Star is Different~FB~Pinterest

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• Please link up 1-3 posts
• Follow each of the hosts on social media
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Montessori Decimal System (Base 10) with Golden Beads

It's the time of our 12 Month of Montessori Series, and today I'm sharing with you how Mavi learned the concept of the decimal system and base 10 using the Montessori golden beads materials.  We worked on this when he was about 4yrs old and at times he still wanted to do the complete layout (see the bottom of the post for this).   The aim of studying the decimal system is for the child to understand, organize and  classify the numerical quantities into different hierarchies of units, tens, hundreds and thousands.

One of the best thing about these golden beads material is that it provides a sensorial approach in learning mathematics.  In using the golden beads, a child can easily differentiate a unit from tens, from hundreds and thousands through its depth, weight and quantity.  In effect, there is retention to the concepts because the child can easily visualize the quantity of numbers. 

So without further ado, here’s Mavi’s presentation of how we use the golden beads in learning the decimal system.
Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands

Here’s a short presentation which  Mavi and I created on how to use the materials in introducing units, tens, hundreds and thousands.

The Layout

Now for the overall view of the decimal system, combining the number symbols and the quantity, here’s Mavi working on the decimal system layout.  Sorry if he only worked till 4000, as we do not have enough thousand cubes   Enjoy!

This post is part of the 12 Months of Montessori Learning which is hosted by Natural Beach Living and The Natural Homeschool.

Amazing blogs involved in the 12 Months of Montessori Learning

Natural Beach Living ~ The Natural Homeschool ~ Living Montessori Now ~ Planting Peas

The Kavanaugh Report ~ Mama’s Happy Hive ~ Study at Home Mama ~ Child Led Life

The Pinay Homeschooler ~ Every Star Is Different ~ Grace and Green Pastures