Author: montessorisoul

Author: montessorisoul

Top Tips for Christmas Cakes with kids
December 19, 2014 Uncategorized montessorisoul

My Top Tips for decorating cakes with Children! I love making Christmas cakes and have done them for as long as I can remember. I used to make them with my Mum as a child and remember her making proper royal icing. Over the years I have spent hours making our cake look as beautiful

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Nativity Story Bracelet
December 17, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

I have heard of other Nurseries making Nativity Story bracelets so had a look around online. I found on on My Montessori Journey, thank you. It inspired me to rewrite the Nativity stroy in a simple story to encourage children to read it themselves. I have also included suggested bead colours but you may want

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Nativity Story Bracelet
December 17, 2014 Teaching Ideas, Uncategorized montessorisoul

I have heard of other Nurseries making Nativity Story bracelets so had a look around online. I found on on My Montessori Journey, thank you. It inspired me to rewrite the Nativity stroy in a simple story to encourage children to read it themselves. I have also included suggested bead colours but you may want

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Nativity Story Bracelet
December 17, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

I have heard of other Nurseries making Nativity Story bracelets so had a look around online. I found on on My Montessori Journey, thank you. It inspired me to rewrite the Nativity stroy in a simple story to encourage children to read it themselves. I have also included suggested bead colours but you may want

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Nativity Story Bracelet
December 17, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

I have heard of other Nurseries making Nativity Story bracelets so had a look around online. I found on on My Montessori Journey, thank you. It inspired me to rewrite the Nativity stroy in a simple story to encourage children to read it themselves. I have also included suggested bead colours but you may want

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Freya made Reindeer cards
December 7, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Freya wanted to make cards for her friends and teachers at school. I wanted to find something that was easy to achieve a good effect as she has over 20 to make! When we were in the craft shop getting an ink pad I saw the embossing bits which reminded me of my stash at

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Christmas Tree Numeracy Fun!
December 7, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

A few weeks ago at halloween (wow seems like a long time ago!) Seb really enjoyed the pumpkin number activity that I made for him. With that in mind I wanted to create a number activity for him. I an idea on Rockabye Butterfly for decorating trees with the correct number of pop poms and

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Snowman Garland by Freya age 5 and 3/4
December 6, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

I must spend hours looking on Pinterest for ideas to inspire Freya and Seb. I saw this amazing Snowman advent garland by Whimsy love. Reading her post though it wasn’t very easy for Freya to do independently so with a bit of tweaking here is my version! PS I just discovered PicMonkey for image editting

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Paper Christmas Wish Tree
December 3, 2014 Teaching Ideas, Uncategorized montessorisoul

Just 10 pages of yellow A4 paper and about 10 sheets of Green A4 paper and voila…. a beautiful Paper Christmas tree. It was such a hit in the classroom today – I love my colleagues idea of adding stars with childrens wishes on and doesn’t it look amazing! Our room is starting to feel

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Paper Christmas Wish Tree
December 3, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Just 10 pages of yellow A4 paper and about 10 sheets of Green A4 paper and voila…. a beautiful Paper Christmas tree. It was such a hit in the classroom today – I love my colleagues idea of adding stars with childrens wishes on and doesn’t it look amazing! Our room is starting to feel

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