A few weeks ago, I introduced my son Vito to different weather conditions as we had experienced extreme weather in a single day. I shared on my Instagram post that we even had hail during the early weeks of summer! To teach him about weather, I prepared some materials for him, including Weather Cards from my shop, a Weather book from National Geographic, and The Weather from My First Discovery book. The booklet you see in the photo is from our Weather Cards set. These books are excellent, and we usually read them at night, but sometimes Vito would take them out of the basket and look at the pictures or pretend to read them just like me.
The activity was straightforward the first time we talked about the weather, but Vito learned a lot from it. We are still using the weather chart we created from that activity up to now!
Okay, so your little ones can count up to ten, so what’s next? In this post, I’m going to show you how the Montessori math method, teaches a child the quantity and number symbols of eleven to nineteen. There’s a BIG difference being able to “count” from one to twenty or a hundred compared to grasping the concept of what these numbers stand for. This is where the beauty of Montessori math would stand out, it allows the child to experience the use of materials and its purpose, and once confidence is gained the child can work with the material independently.
To demonstrate this, here’s our journey of learning the “teens”.
