Polygons!
It’s polygons for Sensorial! Can you recall how much time it took for you to remember and understand the name of polygons? Through materialized concepts, children can understand these abstract concepts.
The Importance of Teaching Your Child to Use Chopsticks
Using chopsticks is not only learning about a culture, but it is also enhancing children’s fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. It also helps to stimulate intellectual brain development, develops the small muscles and allows the child to become familiar with the handwriting position at an early age.
Art & Craft Lesson Makes You Happier
Children love to share happiness when they make the craft on their own.
Cute tigers are roaring! Creative children are working on arts & crafts using different materials.
The art classes are inspiring and I always look forward to seeing the children’s finished work and their expression of it. The dragonfly gave children the imagination to hold it in their little hands and fly around the house. And the paper spinner is just entertaining to watch.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau.
Montessori Learning Principles of CCIO
There is nothing better than training the kids from a young age to look after their clothes. Folding socks and clothes are a practical life activity for children that aims to develop concentration, coordination, independence and order. The folding socks activity also helps the child become independent by doing daily chores of life and instils a sense of confidence in them. “The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.” – Dr Maria Montessori.
In my experience with the needle as a child, I remember the focus I felt immediately, which encouraged me to stay in a task longer. The key to any success starts with concentration. Maria Montessori says: ” The life of the spirit prepares the dynamic power to daily life and on its side, daily life encourages thought by means of ordinary work.” -The child in the family, page 31
Montessori Practical Life Activities to Use in the Home During the Pandemic
With children and families spending most of their time at home in our current crisis, this could be an opportunity to help children develop some of these life skills.
1. Peeling the carrot.
Fruits and vegetables are an important part of the diet for children. They provide many of the vitamins and minerals needed to establish and maintain the healthy functioning of the various parts of the body. Let me show you how to peel the carrots first.
2. Ironing the handkerchief.
The best way to introduce our kids to ironing is by helping them do their laundry. Also, please take this opportunity to interact with them and have a bit of fun. Folding laundry could be turned into a social event for our son or daughter and us. Get them their miniature board and iron so that they could iron beside us. Let them begin with handkerchiefs, then proceed to other clothes such as a shirt, trousers, skirt, and dress as they master the skill.
3. Assemble a flashlight or other battery operated.
Children love to learn basic knowledge about how a flashlight, remote control, alarm clock, or mouse work. They also get to practice fine motor skills as they screw and unscrew the cover. They also know the basic introduction to batteries, that batteries have a positive and negative terminal. This appealing and straightforward activity achieves all of these goals.
The Project to Help Children Gain Some Confidence.
Scrapbooking is a great way to create something unique and keep it with us for the rest of our lives. We scrapbook everything about the leaf we learned for the past four weeks during our Culture online. Scrapbooking is a favourite pastime amongst kids worldwide because it allows them to make something that they can keep and test their creativity. With all the available digital data and technology, there is something about having a physical copy of something that one creates.
Culture studies about leaves their colours, shapes, and naming each part of a leaf. Children’s interaction with paint to emphasize the leaf’s veins is always a success! Learning about plants, where children can observe changes as the seeds begin to sprout and grow over time and record their observations on the recording sheet!
Our young child has probably seen or heard about farm animals even if we live in a city or the suburbs, miles from the nearest grazing cow. Perhaps we’ve sung “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” or read a story featuring sheep, ducks, and horses. It may sound like simple toddler fun, but learning this vocabulary at a young age helps our child develop savvy pre-academic and social skills.
