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You are here: Home / Activities / Geography / Learning About South America

Learning About South America

April 13, 2014 By Seemi

Learning About South America. Activities and ideas for a Montessori preschool classroom.

 

Build Your South America Unit

As you gather materials for your South America continent studies, you may be interested in these resources from some of my favorite Montessori printable creators!

  • South America Continents Pack from Every Star is Different
  • South America Preschool Pack from Trillium Montessori
  • South America A-Z from Trillium Montessori
  • Rainforest Phonological Awareness from Trillium Montessori

 

Materials for Learning About South America

This is what our Geography shelf looks like with the South America Materials

Books about South America

Books for Children About South America

Photo cards from South America (Source: Montessori Printshop)


3-part cards to go with the South America A-Z printable book (Source: South America A-Z)  The pack also comes with a clipart version of the book along with blacklines so the children can make their own booklet.

Sorting living and non-living things from South America (Source:South America A-Z)

Sorting plants and animals from South America (Source: South America A-Z)

Sorting Landmarks, food, and instruments from South America  (Source: Montessori Printshop)

Matching animals from South America.   The cards are from Montessori Printshop and the animals are from a set of Safari TOOBs.

Parts of a Toco Toucan printable book  (Source:South America A-Z)

Parts of a Toco Toucan 3-Part Cards  (Source:South America A-Z)

Biomes of South America 3-part cards  (Source:South America A-Z)  The map is from Waseca Biomes. You may also like to include the Tropical Rain Forest Curriculum from Montessori Nature as part of your biome studies of South America!

South America Pinpunching

Pinpunching (or push-pin) South America

South America Syllable Cards from Every Star is Different

I love this syllable counting work from Every Star is Different

Phonetic reading sentences for South America ( I printed out the pink version but there’s a blue version if you’d prefer to put it on your Language shelves with your blue series work) 

And a pink theme on our fine motor shelves to coordinate with our South America work

Ribbon weaving using a cabinet organizer shelf 

Sorting birds from South America!  Toucans and Macaws! (Source: South America Preschool Pack)

 

Color sorting pictures from South America (Source: South America Preschool Pack)

 

The Question Game is always a hit in a small group!  Distribute the picture cards, and the children have to figure out if they have the correct picture based on the clues you read out on the question cards. (Source: South America Preschool Pack)

 

Size sorting with images from South America (including native cultures) (Source: South America Preschool Pack)

South America Pictures and Shadow Matching (Source: South America Preschool Pack)

 


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