Month: October 2014

Month: October 2014

Handwriting – Cursive script
October 30, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Following on from my post about print letter formation here is Part 2 – a guide for cursive handwriting. Freya’s new school uses cursive writing so I have been doing some research on how to support her. I want to do it in a way that she can independently check her letter formation so I

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Helping with Letter Reversal
October 29, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Here are some helpful tricks we use to help with letter reversal. I know there are lots out there but this one we have found to be the least confusing. There are two here for b and d as well as p and g. If you know any more please share on my facebook page.

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Halloween – Free Printables
October 27, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

I have recently done two halloween blogs – have you seen them? Blog 1 ideas for Pumpkin maths, DIY halloween window gels and spider investigations! Blog 2 has ideas on how to make a toy spider, Halloween feely bag game and Hammering golf tees into a pumpkin! Great fun!! Today I wanted to share links

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Diwali celebration
October 27, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Just a quick post as it is the last day of Diwali – here are some activities I will be doing with Freya and Seb throughout the day. First we looke at some Diwali photo cards – it was great to start a discussion about Diwali with the kids. Afterwards we looked at this Diwali

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Halloween – we just can’t stop!
October 26, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Here are some more ideas for Halloween – we’ve had great fun doing them I hope you enjoy them too! Window Gels As we are having friends over on Friday Freya wanted to decorate the house – I saw a great post on Pinterest about window gels from TeachingMama. You basically mix 2 tablespoons of

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Halloween
October 25, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

  It’s hard to avoid Halloween – its every where you look. I have been putting together Halloween activities ready for Friday for Freya and Seb and a couple of friends. I don’t want to go down the witches and ghosts route with Freya and Seb I think that they are too young for this

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Learning about Space
October 18, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

      As I posted earlier in the week Freya and Seb have been fascinated by the stars and moon at the moment. I suppose it makes up for the early dark nights we’re having that the children can see the moon and stars before bedtime! So our starting point – the Night sky.

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Autumn
October 15, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

  Just a quick post as its Autumn, we have been looking at leaves. I have created some Montessori cards – Parts of a leaf and Types of leaves.   We have also been preserving leaves to make into a mobile. We had a great time hunting for different colours and shapes in the leaves.

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New space printables
October 14, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

I am getting ready for the weekend – we are going to be looking at space!  It is getting dark so early here in the UK at the moment that the kids are loving looking at the stars. I have just created a new astronomy category in my downloads section why not take a look.

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Geometric Solids extension
October 13, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

If you read my post about whales you will have seen the wonderful 3D boat picture that Freya came up with. It reminded me of this fantastic extension for the geometric solids. I can’t take the credit for the idea – it was in one of the presentations at the MCI Annual conference. I have

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