A few months ago, we finished reading our first chapter book ever!!! It was Charlotte’s web by E.B. White and Illustrated by Garth Williams.

Her past Montessori class was reading the book, so she got back home very excited wanting to get it at the book store. I didn’t know about this book before (shame on me….or shame on my old Puerto Rican traditional school system). It was great to read the book together every night and finally watch the movies. We found two movies: one an animation, and another with persons. This helped us to compared the movies and the book. This seems an activity for older kids but I got amazed by all the details a young kid can remember.

Then we added a few hands-on-activities or Montessori-inspired lessons to go with our beloved book.

Characters spelling activity

Charlotte’s web small world

(She played with these for ages….sometimes reciting parts from the book or movie and others just using her imagination. Great way to bring a book to life!)

Characters:

Pigs: Wilbur and Uncle

Spiders: Charlotte and daughters (Joy, Aranea and Nelly)

Rat: Templeton

Girl with eggs basket: Fern Arable

Boy with fish: Avery Arable

Woman and man next to boy: Mr. and Mrs. Arable

Man with calf: Lurvy

Geese and Gander

Sheep (not pictured) and lamb

Horse and colt

Cow and flies

Man driving the tractor: Mr. Zuckerman

Woman next to tractor: Mrs. Zuckerman

 

Origami farm

(From Michael’s but I recently saw it at the Dollar Tree Store)

 

Books to complement

(These books are from our own home library)

Books about The farm.

 

Books about farm animals.

 

Books about spiders.

 

Books about pigs.

 

We did a few more activities that will share later on!

Have a great weekend!!

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Continuing with our geography study, we did an Animal Habitats activity. I wanted to do a “formal” presentation for Pinky a while back; however, I never got the opportunity until now. My goal with this is to settle down the basic knowledge before starting to “formally” learn about each one of our Continents.

*Note that I wrote` the word formal between (“)…..this is because she had been exposed to these themes for quite a time now but we didn’t discuss, explore or manage them individually.

First we talked about land, water and air.

Then, we continued with the Biomes and the animals we find there. At Montessori Print Shop you can find a short description about each biome plus great animals photos that live in each. (link below)We have multiple atlas books that we used as a reference.

Pinky classifying her animals cards (from MPS).

 

Another activity we did was to classify our animals figurines by their habitats using a 8x 11 printable of each one. (So sorry I can’t remember where I got these. They are in French. However, they are easy to make just printing a 8x 11 photo from Google.

 

Animals Habitats

 

House (Safari pets toob)

 

Farm (farm animals toob)

 

Desert (Safari desert animals toob)

 

Ocean (ocean animals)

 

Rainforest- Jungle (rainforest animals toob)

Grassland (wild animals toob)

 

Tundra (Arctic-polar animals toob)

 

Air- Birds from our Bird unit (link below)

The last activity we did was one of Pinky’s favorite ones: using Stickers!!! She LOVE stickers and make up stories with them.

 

Check out these links for more activities or great printables:

• Animal Habitats cards from Montessori Print Shop.
• Animals habitats-Biomes from the Homeschool Den for free.
• For toddlers here is an animal habitat felt matching activity that is soooo cute!
• Free animal habitat printable activity with clipart.
• I found our animal habitats cards at Early learning with Marta and Eaton.
• Our Farm theme unit fun here.

                                     

• Our Birds theme unit over here.

                                     

Have fun!!!

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A farm theme is so fun!!! Furthermore, there’re plenty of activities to do, but, sadly, we don’t have enough time for them.

We are getting ready for VACATIONS!!! Almost a month at our lovely island: Puerto Rico!!! I am so excited about it because Pinky will have lots of new experiences with nature: beach, lakes, river, mountains, farms, gardens, insects and if we are lucky enough, a RAINBOW!!!

So, here’s what we got to do so far:

Lacing:

This is the second time she’s exposed to a lacing activity and she did the 8 animals at one! As you can see the rabbit was the last one (oh, my little baby!). Also, the small lacing animals were suppose to being use as a matching activity or memory game but she decided to match to the big ones. Great imagination!.

For this unit we are doing lots of hands on activities (literally). Here are our 5 little sheep puppets. Using these for a line time circle time song (5 little sheep)

Felt puzzle: Horse

Phonics: She is really good!!! (beginning sounds!)

Homemade poppets!: We looked for our small farm stuff animals (plus an octopus and Elmo that got on the way), attached them to popsicle stick with pine cleaners and the puppet show can start! She loved it!

Crafts: Handprint-footprint Farm. Plus the grass has eyes looking at you!

An extra for you my friends: Farm animals in Spanish by Pinky and mommy! That’s how we learn around most of the time….of course, when we are not shopping lol

Farm animals (Animales de la granja)

• Sheep: Oveja
• Cow: Vaca
• Pig: Cerdo
• Rabbit: Conejo
• Duck: Pato
• Chick: Pollito
• Horse: Caballo
• Turtle: Tortuga
• Rooster: Gallo

Pinky’s learning her farm animals in Spanish!

Take care…..and maybe one more post before we disappear for VACATIONS!!!  I hope I can have an easy flight all by myself with a 3 yrs old plus all the bags and the flight stops…..