Last week, Bitty Bug celebrated her 3rd birthday! She’s not so bitty anymore…she’s officially ready to graduate from ‘tot school’ and now she is old enough to start the 3 year Montessori “Children’s House” cycle. Now granted, she’s already worked on a lot of the works with Monkey, but now she’s all “official”. 😉
Here are some pictures of what the girls worked on last week.
Bug was absolutely thrilled that the easel made it's way upstairs this week! This girl loves to paint!
Bug also used the tea set to practice pouring water.
Monkey also loved painting! She wanted to paint faces.
Monkey had a BIG week in the school room last week. First, after learning the "t" sound (making her repertoire "a", "e", "s", "m", and "t"), she learned to read her first sentence--"meet Sam at mass". She was so proud of herself!
And then later this week, she started learning how to read her very first book--the "Mat" book from the Bob Books set.
Monkey working with the "5 beads" to learn counting by 5's.
Monkey went above and beyond with the beads though. While I was making lunch, I saw that she was making her own math problems (she had just watched Jedi doing math). She would write the numbers on a piece of paper, add the beads to the paper, and then answer the problem. So, I heard her saying things like "8 beads plus 1 bead equals....9 beads!" She made up a ton of math problems.
Bug working with the magneatos
Pin punching with the metal insets
The girls also worked on "heavy vs light". Using their meta & wooden scale from their toy kitchen, they tried balancing the scale by putting different toys and objects in each bowl.
The girls LOVED excavating toys out of blocks of ice. They used salt, chisels, hammers, and spoons to see if they could free the toys.
Monkey using a hammer and chisel to get the toys out.
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