Today was Pinky’s soccer and T-ball summer last class.

She (and her cousin while was visiting) had such a great summer time. Every Wednesday Pinky was eager to start her lessons and run wild, at least for an hour. Therefore, I took this occasion to keep reinforcing some really important tasks: Courtesy and grace.

Teach my daughter to be grateful for her coaches or teachers for taking their time and patience to share their knowledge is one of the priceless gift I could ever give her.

It doesn’t have to be anything expensive or elaborated, just a thought of appreciation.  Believe me, her coaches where really surprised and glad about the unexpected detail, as well as her teammates.

About Pinky, I could not describe how Proud and Happy she was about herself.

Priceless!!!

Coaches gifts: Water bottle, Kashi cherry dark chocolate chewy granola bar, Planters nuts mixed bag.

Team gifts (24 in total): Mott’s medleys fruit snacks (24 box), sticker box (Dollar tree store: 7/$1), pencils (Dollar tree store: 12/$1)

The end of her summer classes only means: Is time to get ready for Back-to-school!!!!

 

Here is more information about Grace and courtesy:

1- From info Montessori. Introduction to Grace and Courtesy.

2- From MariaMontessori.com. The magic of Grace and Courtesy.

3- From Living Montessori Now. Montessori Monday – Grace and Courtesy for a New School Year.

 

About other gift ideas for your favorite Coache:

1- Over the big moon. Baseball Coach Appreciation (Thanks for covering all the bases)~attached to a bag of peanuts. Free printable.

2- Just be happy. I skor-ed big.

3- Simply This and that.

4- Just Between Friends: Teacher Appreciation Gift Idea---Coach (Thanks for helping me “stick” to my goals this year)

5- Our Gift ideas Pinterest board full of more unique ideas!

Just an easy and fun idea to learn sight words for those mommies that need to spare their time. We are trying to simplified our learning around here.

You will need some garden signs, paper and markers or crayons. I got mine from Target at the dollar spot.

 

And we ended with these:

These are a great addition to our learning room. As soon as Pinky knows these, I just change the piece of paper with another one and add new sight words. You can play with them outside at the yard, hide them, play memory, a kind of Olympic running game, or my daughter’s favorite one: mommy monkeying around/marching/dancing and shouting 123 and holding the sign around the house while Pinky follows shouting the word and moving,too. You know what I mean: Have fun, move your body, learn and make it easy (that one is mostly for mommy!)

Here is my Pinterest PRE-READING ideas board!!! There are lots of great ideas to try!

123 123 ……Happy reading!!!!! and dancing!

Just a quick post about some of the activities we have been doing this summer. It is all about: MATH!

I found this poker rack and chips at Goodwill and decided to introduce some addition concepts with it. The girls loved it!!! I am thinking about using it with other activities like patterning, graphing, counting, and subtraction concepts.

Here is Pinky having a great summer vacation with her big cousin (5.8 years old). Her big cousin is starting First grade on a traditional school system in Puerto Rico this fall. She was so happy learning math while discovering some Montessori world. The result was two little girls happily working side-by-side, helping each other. 

 

We’ve been doing other math-related activities which I don’t have any pictures to share because my little camera past away

Next, I am sharing great links if you feel like trying the amazing Math world with your cuties. As of July 2012, Pinky is 4 years old.

Printables:

1. Here’s the domino printable.
2. Here’s the beads and pine cleaners activity idea.
3. Here are the fractions worksheets printable (free).
4. Trace the number printable from here.
5. Here’s the 1-100 numbers maze worksheet.
6. If you want to make your own Number cards, here’s a FREE printable available plus lots of links about where to buy them and activities to try.

Here is an AMAZING post from Mom’s Heart about how to bring Hands-On Math activities for Preschoolers. Check it out, I know you will get inspired!

For more inspiration go here at Homeschool-activities.com.

 

Take care and enjoy your week!