Monday, June 6, 2011

Montessori and Workboxes

It seems like we had too many school activities every week but I found that everything can be well organized on our school corner mixing the Montessori trays with the Workboxes system. This mix really suits us because:

  • We don’t have a comfortable prepared school room (rented apartment)
  • Just have one child always besides mommy looking for what I am doing
  • Pinky loves to have different options available
  • Mommy doesn’t have to think to much in order to come up with an activity
  • Mommy can have a better idea with what Pinky worked already
  • Better organization and more space available
  • Sanity for mommy: Don’t see her beautiful trays are over the place

Here is an idea of how we mixed some kind of Montessori activities with the Workboxes:

Marlee 35-36 mo 002Montessori-inspired activities, worksheets, art, Education cubes 

Marlee 35-36 mo 151Those big activities that doesn’t fit inside the boxes can stay on trays!!!

Marlee 35-36 mo 004 Close-up to our workboxes. To keep Pinky interested on completing an activity or clean up after finishing, she can select a princess prize (I printed and laminated some princesses pics and hold them to the boxes with Velcro)

Marlee 35-36 mo 011Marlee 35-36 mo 068 Marlee 35-36 mo 014Marlee 35-36 mo 012

There you can see our homeschool corner (excellent for the two of us; doesn’t take too much space and everything is in its place)

So far, it is great!!!!

3 comments:

Ewa said...

Great arrangement ;-) We also have the space problem but your organization seems so neat. I must think about buying the workbox shelf.


Love Pinky's expression while working with nomenclature cards ;-) She's so cute and focus ;-)

Did you prepare yourself the magnifying glass activity with the flowers? It's fabulous.

Great job Mama ;-)

Love
Ewa

Airamty said...

Hi Ewa...This new arrangement of our little school has been fantastic...we can do many activities without taking too much space. About the magnifying activity these are from Martha @ Early earning with Martha and Eaton blog, here's the link: http://earlylearning-eaton.blogspot.com/2011/01/file-folder-games-tropical-flowers.html
She did such an amazing job with flowers from Hawaii. She did the activity as a file folder game. Thanks so much for your great comment and wishing you and the boys a wonderful week!

Patricia said...

Love this corner.

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