Preschoolers really enjoy winter activities! I’ve pulled together some great resources from around the web to help you create a winter theme for your classroom. Montessori Activities for Winter In Montessori we aim to give children experiences with real life as much as possible. Preschoolers will enjoy practical life activities such as: Shoveling snow Scraping ice […]
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Free Printable: Get Ready for January
The January Seasonal Guide is ready! You can also see pictures of many of these activities in the following posts from previous years: Fine Motor Activities for January What’s New on the Art Shelves in January? More Winter Activities Animals in Winter Animals in Winter Unit January Printables More Winter Printables The Mitten How to get this printable I’ve […]
December Activities for Preschool
Here are a few more December activities to round off the month! Sensorial Smelling and matching Christmas scented candles. Use a blindfold for a fun challenge! Language We LOVE this “I Have Who Has” vocabulary development game from Kindergarten Squared Matching Christmas erasers with their outlines. That is some seriously shiny gold wrapping paper! Here’s […]
Get Ready for December: A Merry Montessori Christmas
I’ve been having fun creating monthly printable ebooks for seasonal Montessori activities this school year. You can find the October and November ebooks on the subscriber page. But it’s already December 5th and I don’t have one published for December yet. Do you know why? Because I found someone else who’s already made one! I recently purchased “A […]
A Celebration of Light – The Winter Solstice
By Lisa Anderson Spending this time of the year with children reminds me of the beauty the holidays have to offer. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds and we try to acknowledge each family’s cultural traditions and share the joys of the season. This year we are celebrating the winter solstice and preparing […]
Holiday Gifts Your Child Can Sew
Please welcome Aimee Fagan! Aimee’s work on the Montessori Works Blog has been an inspiration to me for a long time. Aimee is a trained Montessori teacher and she has some wonderful resources for the practical life area of the classroom. She also writes about her experiences raising her children in a Montessori home. Today she […]
Winter Olympics
Are you excited about the Winter Olympics coming up in Sochi this year? We’ve got a few activities planned to keep up with all the fun! Stamping the Olympic rings with paper tubes and paint Cut (or pin-punch) a torch and glue some colored tissue to make a flame String beads to make the Olympic […]
Animals in Winter Unit
Here are some of the materials I put together to add to our Animals in Winter unit. This is a non-fiction book we will be using to introduce the unit. I might keep the cards apart and put them up on display one at a time as we talk about what it says. (Source: Animals […]
The Mitten
“The Mitten” by Jan Brett is such a great book to read with the children in winter. I made up some phonological awareness games for our pre-literacy shelf to go with the book. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDOzlaOc3Us[/youtube] Skill: Isolating Words You will need a basket of blocks to play this game. The teacher reads a sentence card and […]
More Winter Printables
There are so many simple ways to bring a winter theme into the classroom. Last week we shared pictures of some of the new materials we have out in January. Here are a few more! Winter Clothing color sort. I decided to print out the black-line set on colored construction paper this time to save […]