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Tot School

February 15, 2011
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We’re learning to differentiate between sizes: small, medium, large. He’s having a little difficulty with the terms, so I’m considering switching to big, bigger, biggest or small, big, bigger.

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When they’re absorbed in a task

January 12, 2011

don’t interrupt! Not for praise, not to encourage them. That can come later. I’ve distracted Joey a time or two while he was working simply because of my own excitement of what he was accomplishing. When a child is actively engaged in a task they’re working. They’re learning. Figuring out how they can manipulate the [...]

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Spooning Ice Cubes

September 13, 2010

Our theme for this month is a combination of The Body, All About Me, and the 5 senses. After naptime today we did a little activity that appealed to the sense of touch. And it was cold! I took a bowl, filled it  with water, and dumped two trays of ice cubes in it. Then [...]

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Tot School

September 13, 2010

I’ve been reading and enjoying Tot School over at Carisa’s 1+1+1=1 blog for awhile and–finally–remembered to take pictures this week so I could link-up. Joey is {almost} 22 months. We’re working on learning the names of the numbers and their quantity. Coloring is a new favorite activity and he’s been doing a good job of [...]

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Theme: Transportation

March 3, 2010

Our monthly theme in January/February was transportation. I had a lot of fun with this theme, though it was hard to create Montessori style “work” pertaining to planes, trains, and automobiles. What Joey did do was gaining familiarity with the types of transportation, beginning to retrieve objects by name, and discovering how wheels work (no [...]

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We’re not gone, just busy…

November 1, 2009

October is gone and it went by so fast! We’ve been home, but busy and preoccupied. I’m glad I didn’t choose to do a theme for October, because I doubt we would have gotten to it anyway. We had three weeks back to back where our normal schedule was interrupted, mostly for good and enjoyable [...]

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