Free Printable: Get Ready for January

The January Seasonal Idea Book is ready!

This resource includes ideas for practical life, language, and science lessons that are easy to implement and designed to complement your existing Montessori materials. Whether you’re looking to add variety to your routine or bring in some seasonal inspiration, the activities in this book offer simple yet meaningful options.

All materials featured here are available through the Hands-On Kids Activities Club (HOKA), a monthly membership that supports curriculum planning for busy educators.

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Montessori and Preschool Activities for Winter

Preschoolers really enjoy winter activities! The winter season is a great opportunity to introduce children to new experiences, concepts and skills. Below you’ll find some great resources from around the web to help you create a winter theme for your classroom and provide fun and engaging preschool activities for winter. Montessori Preschool Activities for Winter:……

Free Printable: Get Ready for January

The January Seasonal Idea Book is ready! This resource includes ideas for practical life, language, and science lessons that are easy to implement and designed to complement your existing Montessori materials. Whether you’re looking to add variety to your routine or bring in some seasonal inspiration, the activities in this book offer simple yet meaningful options.……

Winter Olympics

Are you excited about the Winter Olympics coming up 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 rings. Figuring……

Animals in Winter Unit

Here are some of the materials I put together for 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 in……

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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDOzlaOc3Us Skill: Isolating Words You will need a basket of blocks to play this game. The teacher reads a sentence card……

Montessori and Preschool Printables for Winter

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……

January Printables

Winter themed printables for a Montessori or preschool Kindergarten class

It’s a new year and a new month and time to put out some new materials! Here are some of the Wintery works we have on the shelves for January. On the Pre-Literacy Shelf We love the Question Game for vocabulary development and improving inferencing skills. These questions are little more advanced than the……

January in Action

Here are the latest videos from our class! If you’ve been following our blog for the past month, check out these videos to see all of our winter activities in use! Parents, check your emails for our January Newsletter. https://vimeo.com/58674569 https://vimeo.com/58674571 See our earlier videos on Vimeo and YouTube Linked to these great early education……

Animals in Winter

This is our Unit Studies shelf with activities to help children explore what animals do in winter. Here’s our setup for making animal tracks in playdoh. A little glitter in the white playdoh can make the work even more attractive. I used the animals from our North America box for this activity. ……

Free Preschool Printables for Winter

A roundup of free preschool and kindergarten printables for winter!

Here are some highlights from our early literacy shelf (pictured above) in January: What’s Missing on the Snowman? from A Child’s Place. Scroll down to the “printouts” section near the bottom of the page for this free printable PDF. Snowman Sequencing from Teach It With Class. I Have, Who Has… Winter Words from……

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Seemi holds a Master's degree in education, and an AMS Early Childhood credential. She has twenty years of experience in Montessori as a teacher, school administrator, and school owner. Seemi is the founder of TrilliumMontessori.org.