It’s time to start getting ready for May! Try the following resources to help you prepare your preschool and Montessori shelves. Click the images below for details and tons of ideas! Free Printables These printables are available in my Resource Library. Click the images below for more details. Related Products Click the […]
Seasonal
Get Ready for March
It’s time to start getting ready for March! Try the following resources to help you prepare your preschool and Montessori shelves. Click the images below for details and tons of ideas! Related Products Click the images for details. (Affiliate links may be included in this post. See full disclosures here.)
Pumpkin Patch Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
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 free October Seasonal Guide for the Classroom with pictures of our seasonal activities for the month, you can get all the details in the […]
Spring Ideas for the Preschool Classroom
Spring is in the air and it’s the perfect time for all sorts of nature studies with your preschoolers! Go outside and get your hands dirty as much as you can! Every week, the members of the Trillium {Community} Facebook group share photos of their shelves and activities in our weekly “Shelfie Saturday” share thread. […]
Earth Day Preschool Activities
Here are some of the activities we have on our Montessori preschool shelves while we celebrate Earth Day! On the Art Shelf Cutting Strips This is a great activity for who children who are just beginning to learn how to hold scissors properly. (Source: Earth Day Preschool Pack ) Cutting Lines Cutting on the […]
Easter Preschool Activities
This week I’m honored to share with you some photos contributed by one of our long time readers, Dagmar Brumovska! She has a lot fun ideas that you can try on your preschool shelves for Easter. We also have photos of the printable cards included in the Trillium Montessori Easter Preschool Pack. Between the two, your […]
Montessori and Preschool Activities for Winter
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 […]
A Montessori Thanksgiving
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 difficulty […]
Montessori at the Beach
Today, I am delighted to introduce you to my good friend Virginia Lozuke. Virginia is the head of school and lead teacher at the Montessori Farm School in Durham, NC. She was inspired to write this post as she enjoyed some time at the beach this summer. You can follow her awesome school on Facebook. […]
Strawberry Patch
We enjoyed a family field trip to go strawberry picking last weekend! The weather was perfect The berries were plentiful And we couldn’t wait to eat them! Slicing strawberries with an egg slicer (affiliate link) Strawberry Theme Activities in the Classroom We had some red and berry themed activities on our fine motor shelf Spooning little […]