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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 solid extension
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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A Whale of a weekend!
October 13, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

  This week Seb has been studying whales at school – he said he wanted to do some more this weekend. What a challenge! As a family we love whales though as Aunty Nico works with humpback whales so it was easy to find some inspiration. This blog shows some of the things we have

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Handwriting – Letter formation Part 1
October 8, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Every school seems to have a different handwriting policy, most schools use either cursive or pre-cursive letters. Pre-cursive means that each letter is designed to be individual. Cursive font is designed so that you don’t have to take the pen off the paper allowing the wrting to flow better. Each school may also have different

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All about Turtles
October 4, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

We had an amazing holiday in Mexico and we were lucky enough to swim with turtles:   We have loved learning about turtles and we wanted to share some of the things we have done. To start I had a collection of books out. I have struggled to find many books related to turtles, certainly

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Great extensions for Short bead stair and Seguin boards
October 2, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

Just a quick post about the new materials I just put in the upload section.  Using the short bead stair and Seguin boards is a great way for children to build a concrete understanding of number.  I have just created two downloadable extensions for these exercises where the children can record there learning. Download short

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Teaching phonics
Pure Sounds phonics
October 1, 2014 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

  The current trend for teaching reading is using phonics… which is great as that is how Montessori has always done it. For those that don’t know, learning to read using phonics is done by teaching children sounds. There are 44 phonemes (sounds) which relate to the letters of the alphabet (25, q is taught

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