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into the garlic press and squeeze the water into one section of the ice cube tray oops i now realize i need to add another bowl to the tray for the squeezed sponge squares to remove the water from the ice tray james will simply put the squeezed sponges back into the section to absorb the water and then transfer them back to the bowl pencil sharpening pouring sand this is sand from one of our local beaches i added a funnel to make this work a little more exciting the bottle on the left is in a basket to keep it from falling off of the tray james is really careful about transporting his work to the rug or table but this tray just isn t that great paper punching this is something new for us and i think james will really like it the blue container from mexico holds small paper squares of various colors textures and weight the silver container will hold the punches tweezing transferring we ve done something similar to this several times before so this is nothing really new but i know james will enjoy it the mason jar is what i think he will find most interesting there are two parts to the lid and they have to go on in a certain way in order for them to fit properly sensorial sensory tubs we have two available right now pond transportation sandy playdough same as last year creating polygons these colored popsicle sticks have been used for so many activities in our classroom i printed out this chart from the internet and james will use it as a guide to create some basic polygons i provided a control of error by using a single color for each polygon still on our shelves knobbed knobless cylinders and the pink tower language poetry basket i found this poem online and modified it a bit i needled felted the water and grass and knitted the little fruits in the basket summer bingo i made this myself using graphics from here the small bingo cards are in the little box and the colored shells will be used as card markers btw i did not color the shells i found a bag of them at our local thrift store sequencing these stars are filled with water meant to be reusable ice cubes we ll use them to create various patterns tracing james finds worksheets a bit boring so i try to liven this kind of work up by adding fun writing utensils to the tray you d be surprised how often this works to entice him these printables came from abcteach btw since a few people have asked yes i do have a membership to this site and yes i do find it well worth the price i use it quite often moveable alphabet i collected a bunch of images from google and made these cards to accompany our moveable alphabet james will spell out the name of image in the case of the card shown in the photo he can opt to spell either shovel or pail memory game this is one from last year when we focused on independence day books on the seashore by anna millbourne the sun egg by elsa beskow bermuda 123 by dana cooper summer series by nuria roca america a patriotic primer by lynne cheney l is for liberty by wendy cheyette lewison coral reef by marcus phister the scrambled states of america by laurie keller swimmy by leo lionni still on our shelves dry erase spelling and the grammar farm math buying water balloons put on your creative hat go into the dollar store and you ll be amazed at what you turn into a learning activity in the past i would have made a simple sorting matching activity with these balloons but since that s a bit old hat for james i decided to go this route instead james will need to buy these balloons for a penny a piece 25 cents for the lot i provided various coins that equal that amount and it ll be up to him to decide which combination of coins to use this activity falls in line with our recent money matters lesson cards counters it s true we re a bit past this kind of work too but if i ve said it once i ve said it a million times repetition is a good thing plus i have a bazillion of these fruit counters and i ve been dying to use them i bought them at a garage sale a few months ago but i think you can buy them from lakeshore learning less than more than equal to i chose sea glass for this work and i think james will really like the look and feel of it the less than more than equal symbols come from this magnetic set lego math you can read more about this here skip counting i made these bead bars out of pipe cleaners and pony beds super easy the tiles come from our hundreds board still on our shelves telling time and sandpaper numerals science culture discovery tray it s been a while since i created a discovery tray for our shelves this one is full of ocean treasures shells coral sea glass and bits of pottery washed up after a hurricane a couple of years ago examining sand my husband found the idea for this activity here we ll put some sand on the white paper and make note of what colors and particles we see we ll do the same with the black paper and see if we notice anything different we ll use the jumbo magnet to see if any iron rich minerals stick to it we ll also talk about why bermuda sand is pink still on our shelves parts of the africa continent bag water experiments coming soon art music composer of the month verdi i often get asked what exactly we do with our com right now i m keeping it really simple i download that composer s music onto my ipod and we listen to those songs during our schooltime for the entire month i also print out a photo of the composer at some point we ll likely spend more time learning about the composer and the style of music but for now it s just not something james is interested in coloring book i printed this mini coloring book from abcteach circle time songs i can make these available just let me know if you re interested line art the idea here is simple james can use the ruler to create lines in various lengths and angles he can color the shapes in if he wishes to happy summer thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 8 00 am 24 comments labels art beach books diy activities fine motor fourth of july language learning tools math montessori poetry practical life science and nature sensorial saturday july 16 2011 lego math other activties we are lego fanatics i mean what s not to love about legos honestly aside from building and creating there are so many things you can do with them recently while playing with james i had a sudden brainstorm lego math i created this lego worksheet which has several basic addition subtraction equations on it james will need to find the sum in the little silver bucket and click it onto the worksheet for the symbols i used flat bumpless lego pieces and simply drew symbols on them with a permanent marker for the sum of zero i did something similar i used a flat piece stuck to another lego to provide a control of error i made sure each equation had the same color the thing i like most about this activity is that it has a sensory aspect to it the little bumps on the pieces have such a pleasant feel to them when traced with a finger i m all about tactile learning and i love that it helps to cement concepts into the brain we ve used legos in our learning time in the past here are some other fun and educational things you can do with legos sorting by color size shape type number of bumps etc measuring a mystery bag here you d place several different kinds of legos in a bag and have a matching set available on a tray have your child close their eyes and reach their hands in and feel one of the pieces they ll need to match it to one of the pieces on the tray painting stamping graphing music theory abc 123 simply build jumbo letters and numbers we did this for james when he was first learning his name bingo there s a free printable for this spinny speller i ve seen this idea all over the web but here s a great example picture matching organizing ok so this may not be fun to everyone but this is my idea of a really good time i purchased these containers and blissfully entertained myself for hours for even more ideas hop on over to pinterest and enter legos into your search holy lego mania batman thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 4 00 pm 14 comments labels diy activities learning tools math wednesday june 8 2011 money matters an intro to money shopping we re starting to learn about money over here james likes playing with coins and has been asking what each one is and what it s for so i created some nomenclature cards and we had a fun lesson about money last week first we matched some jumbo coin cut outs i found at the local teacher s supply store then we matched real coins to the cards we also talked a little about the images on each coin next i talked about how different countries use different kinds of money and then i introduced and we matched some bermuda cards and coins then i talked a bit about why we use money i explained how each coin is worth a certain amount and that the things we buy cost a certain amount and that we must use money to buy those things next we played store i found a bunch of random items and i labeled them with stickers each sticker had a value on it i gave james some coins and a basket and he excitedly shopped for things when he selected the items he wanted he brought them to me aka the cashier and purchased them to keep it very simple we addressed each item individually i would take the sticker off the item show him the amount and he would select the appropriate coin from his loot he did a great job and gave me the correct coin each time which i thought was great considering he was working with two types of currency this was such a fun game for both of us james was so funny about shopping he s a lot like me in that he takes forever to make a decision about whether or not a certain item is worth the purchase he was saying things like well i already have one of those so i really don t need it ha a happy customer if you d like to download my money cards click here note there is also bermuda currency included in this file since we use both us and bermuda currency here on the island it s 1 1 i wanted james to be familiar with both fun tip you could always print out the bermuda cards and add them to your north america continent box bag as always my printables are for your personal use only please do not sell or offer them in a giveaway thank you thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 8 30 am 14 comments labels math printables sunday june 5 2011 on our shelves june our theme this month is dinosaurs truth be told james is neither here nor there when it comes to dinos but i thought we d give it a go anyway we finished up our farm theme at the end of last week so tomorrow is our first day with the dinosaurs oh btw how many of you knew that the beloved brontosaurus has been declared scientifically redundant and now has a slightly different appearance and goes by the new name apatosaurus i m sure i m the last to know about this sheesh first pluto is stripped of its planet status i know i know it s a dwarf planet now but still and now i hear about the bronto losing its place in the dino world how will my inner child reconcile this information was my entire elementary education flawed d ok moving on practical life washing a dinosaur i think james will get a kick out of this especially because it involves a cute little scrub brush scooping dinosaur eggs ok so this looks a bit like an easter activity you just have to imagine these are dinosaur eggs folding there are 2 sets of 3 different sized pieces of dinosaur material in this basket james will fold them and match them by size pin poking these sheets are from montessori print shop james will use the jumbo thumbtack to poke tiny holes all around the images thus separating the image from the background we did this last fall and it was a favorite we ll also continue our grace courtesy lessons in table manners sensorial dinosaur sensory tub what has made this tub a hit is the fact that it has water in it kids water guaranteed fun mystery bag inside the dinosaur bag are two sets of the same dinosaur there s another set in the basket which james will lay out on the mat and use as a guide for what he s feeling from inside the bag there s no peeking with this activity james has to really tune in to his sense of touch to determine which dinosaur he s feeling before he pulls it out of the bag of course this can be done with any number of objects and can be as simple or as complicated as you like this activity is fun with toddlers and is great for teaching basic shapes binomal cube this is a traditional montessori material and you can read more about it here i purchased our cube from kid advance still on our shelves knobbed and knobbless cylinders and the pink tower language dinosaur bingo i made this myself using clip art from abcteach i d share it as a pdf but i believe the images are copyrighted worksheets activity book skills involved dot to dot by letters tracing and reading following basic directions i printed the sheets off from kidssoup and abcteach spelling same idea as last month only this time i m using these magnetic numbers books i was astonished to find only 3 dinosaur books at our library three which is just as well i suppose since we re only allowed to check out four at a time the rest are from the local thrift shop not sure if i ll do a poetry basket for this month as i cannot for the life of me find a decent poem about dinosaurs guess dinos aren t very poetical reading as if by magic james can read just about anything now and very rarely has to sound anything out in just a couple of months he went from sounding out basic three and four letter words to flat out reading words with 5 letters without hesitation i couldn t tell you how this happened it just did and i know i had very little to do with it i guess something just sort of clicked with him anyway because i m still wary of how well he actually knows some of the reading rules i want to continue forward with the last bit of the green series i also purchased some basic readers i found this series at a local shop kit n caboodle for my fellow islanders the stories aren t award winning by any means but they get the job done and most importantly james loves reading them still on our shelves green sandpaper phonograms and the grammar farm math measuring dinosaurs we did a similar activity in december when we measured strips of ribbon james enjoys measuring things seriously anything with numbers he loves it he ll need to write his results on the index cards understanding more less still working on this concept it s interesting james definitely understands what s more than something else but when you ask him which is less he freezes up i thought maybe the use of the sections in the ice tray would help him to visualize the concept a bit better he ll need to place the little ball next to the correct answer addition with dinosaurs bones aka popsicle sticks pretty straight forward for example i will lay out a set of 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