All About Me- Montessori-inspired

These past days was All About Me activities. We did lots of the same themes but trying to change the way we were learning about them. As for example, we did many activities about our body parts but using file folder games, books, worksheets, paint, songs and Montessori inspired activities, too. It seems too much for a 3 years old one but Pinky love it. She thought these were “homework” and was so happy to find a different activity every day. We were doing this theme since is what she is doing at school, too. I will try to follow their schedule so she can practice at home. (I am just following my child desire to do “school” at home, too….of course, after she comes back from school, she plays with her toys, watches tv, dances, sings, rest and when she feels like doing “homework” she just tells mommy).

Here’s our week in review (just the Montessori part for now):

• My body book: I did this one a while ago with the body parts in English/Spanish so she could use it with magnetic letters. This time we just looked at the pictures and named them.

• My body file folder game. I did this one but don’t remember where I got these printables. The front and back pictures are from magazines.

• Body puzzle- got this one at Target a long time ago. It’s a little hard for her so I wrote upper and lower case letters for her to match.

• Fine motor activity. Fingers cake: Kind of Montessori inspired activity. It’s a foam where we added golf tees and she had to use tongs to transfer the fingers (from the dollar spot at Target) over each golf tee. (Does it make sense?)

• Fine motor activity. I have eyes on my feet!!! Practicing pincer grasp by putting gloogly eyes on a feet suction shower holder.

• Dot your name.

• What are those lines??? Explore your fingerprints!

• Dora’s life stages. Will need a pregnant doll and an old lady!!! The life stages of a woman is from here plus here you can find a body lapbook idea in Spanish. Great blog!She loved it but told me that the last one was Barbie and NOT Dora..lololo

• Taking care of our body! Match the picture with the product.

• DIY Hand book. The parts of a hand: Just trace your baby hand (He/she will be very excited as mine was) and photocopy many times so in each page he/she can just color each part of the hand as: right hand, left hand, thumb finger, index, middle, ring, pinky, wrist, palm of the hand, back of the hand and, the most excited one, finger nail which you can color using nail polish! Also, this will be great as a 3-part cards activity.

That’s all….FOR NOW!!!

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