Preparing a Thanksgiving Feast in a Montessori Classroom 1. Decide what you want to prepare with your class. In our 3-6 classroom, we made apple butter, cornbread, vegetable soup, and butter. 2. Choose what job everyone will be doing. When it comes to preparing a feast, there are many jobs with multiple […]
Autumn
Free Printable: Get Ready for November
The November Seasonal Guide is ready! All of our November seasonal activities have been compiled into one easy printable. You can also see pictures of many of these activities in the following posts from last year: November Fine Motor Shelf November Printables Learning About Leaves Thanksgiving in Our Class How to get this printable I’ve added this to […]
Pumpkin Patch Fun
Pumpkin Patch Fun We will be taking a field trip to the pumpkin patch in a couple of weeks. To prepare, our classroom is starting to fill up with “pumpkiny” activities. If you haven’t already downloaded my October Seasonal Guide for the Classroom with pictures of all our seasonal activities for the month, you can get all […]
Free Printable: Get Ready for October
Can you smell autumn in the air? Neither can I 🙂 But that doesn’t mean it’s not here! Pretty soon there will be a nip in the air, the leaves will begin changing color and pumpkins will start showing up on door steps. It’s time for us to start thinking about how to bring signs […]
Thanksgiving in Our Class
We wanted to share some pictures from last year’s Thanksgiving Feast. This is the one holiday we always celebrate together as a class. It ties in so well with our study of North America (blog post coming soon), of plants and food, and is a culmination of so many of the practical life skills we’ve […]
Learning About Leaves
Matching pressed leaves Matching leaf silhouettes Identifying leaves and trees This is a great fan deck with images of leaves and the trees they grow on Sorting big and little leaves Parts of a Leaf 3-part cards Learning about leaf shapes with the botany cabinet Leaf Counting On the […]
November Printables
There are so many great educational printables around the web for November! Here are some of our favorites: Language Oral Language “Hide, Turkey, Hide!” Prepositions Game. We found these little turkeys at Michael’s (a craft store). The lovely cards are from Kinder Kapers. Thanksgiving theme Who/What/Where questions by Kim Sutherland. These are so great for […]
November Fine Motor Shelf
Here are some of the fine motor activities we have lined up for November! Gotta bring out the turkey baster in November! Tweezing corn kernels. We picked up some ears of corn when we went on our field trip to the farm a couple of weeks ago. This one requires a little more dexterity. Picking […]
Pumpkins in Our Montessori Class
How Does a Pumpkin Grow? We went to the pumpkin patch to find out! We love it when our alumni come to visit! We planted some pumpkin seeds to watch them grow You can find these great cards at Montessori For Everyone. We made these pumpkin sequencing cards using images from Google. What’s Inside a […]
October Printables
Here are some of the card materials we have on our Math and Language shelves this month. We’ve been trying to bring in the themes of Fall and Halloween to celebrate October. I still have mixed feelings about Halloween in the classroom since it’s such a fantasy-based holiday. However, it is a big part of […]