Izzy discovers her world!

  These are a few videos of Izumi who has started to crawl this week.  The first where she is concentrating on a small wooden ring and the second video she is climbing on a chair.  She has discovered the world is hers for the taking and is determined to explore everywhere and everything within her reach. 

This may be my number 4 but the pressure is still on when it comes to babies and small objects. AGGHH

Rei and Missing Middle

Here Rei is working on putting the correct middle letter onto the word and picture cards.  The noise you can hear at the beginning is an aeroplane overhead.

I love that when Rei has finished her work she quietly just packs away and places it back on the shelf.

Cai's school show

Today we went to watch Cai's school show, I know this has nothing to do with his English learning but I hope you enjoy. He is in the back row on the right side and second in.  You can see that he really enjoyed himself.  He speaks at 3.20.

Weaving

Rei really enjoyed this activity yesterday. 

We used thick Blue paper folded in half, we cut lines to about 3cm of the edge of the paper.  Rei opened the Blue card flat and began weaving her colored paper in and out.

Blue series - Cai

Cai is using the top part of the shelves, he can use the lower pink series shelves also if he wants but he tends to stick with the top Blue series shelves.  We do not have much space so I am using 2 little set's of draws to keep Cai's Blue series in.  They are very beautiful as well as handy.

The brown pot on the top contains 4 and 5 letter words and is used for reading and also with the movable alphabet to spell the words.  The 3 draws contain beginning, middle and ending cards.

The top yellow basket contains Blue series spelling cards and the white basket contains frequently used words written on hands and the children can call out the words as you hold up each hand (I will demonstrate later).  The 2 lower trays contain 2 letter missing beginning and endings.

The top 2 draws contain word and picture match, the third draw contains pictures and 2 letter sounds like pl, cr,fr and Cai will match the pictures to the beginning sounds.  The last draw contains pictures that end with double L, Cai spells them out.

Pink series = Sakura and Rei

So these are the shelves that contain the Pink series, Sakura is working 3 times a week with these shelves, she gets to choose the order in which she does them but she completes all the activities.  We have a work sheet with a list of all the activities on the shelf and when an activity is competed we put a stamp to show it has been competed. 

There are sentence cards and spelling cards all using phonic 3 letter words.  There is a basket of 3 letter words that is used with the movable alphabet.

This top shelf has a basket containing  phonic 3 letter pictures cards which the girls will spell out using the movable alphabet.  On the tray are spelling cards and the dish contains the letter cards for them to spell out the pictures on the cards.  The lower shelf baskets contain missing middles and missing endings.

The top shelf contains Rhyming cards and a Domino set.  The lower shelf contains missing beginning cards.

The top draw of the box contains colors and their written names, the second draw contains numbers to ten and their written names and the lower draw of the box contains the months of the year.

The new shelves

Okay so the new system seems to be working, I am only using Montessori's method.  Sakura and Rei are using the Pink series and Cai is working with the Blue series.  Here are some photos of the shelves.......

I wish I had more space but our room is so small I can only use this space.  Luckily Montessori's style is so organised with everything having it's own place I think it is working.

Bizzy Izzy

I was very happy to find this activity for Izzy, It is a small wooden ball that she puts into the hole and it comes straight back out through the holes in the side.....well she is supposed to put the ball into the hole, but here is what actually happened............

Okay...a ball and a box...

 UUGGGG don't want eat this...

 OOHHH this looks good....

 BORING MUM......

 Okay, the ball is cool...thanks Mum