Little Growing Minds Montessori Home Learning

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THIS MONTH'S BOX
🐛🦋 Life Cycles 🌱🌻

🇬🇧 Made in the UK by 🎓 a qualified Montessori educator

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ACTIVITIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT!
I thought I'd share a quick explanation of the activities I have designed, so you know how amazing the subscription box is!

PICTURE 1: Butterfly 3-Part Cards
There are four designs covering each stage of butterfly metamorphosis. They are designed to teach vocabulary and introduce text linked to each stage.

PICTURE 2: Frog 3-Part Cards
Similar to the butterfly 3-part cards, except there are six designs covering each stage of frog metamorphosis.

PICTURE 3: Plant 3-Part Cards
Six designs covering each stage of a sunflower life cycle. Again designed to teach vocabulary and introduce text linked to each stage.

PICTURE 4: Butterfly Life Cycle Sequence Cards
There are two cards, one A4 reference card showing the butterfly life cycle in the correct order and an A3 card for your little one to complete the life cycle using the 3-part cards and learn the sequence of butterfly metamorphosis.

PICTURE 5: Frog Life Cycle Sequence Cards
Similar to the butterfly life cycle sequence cards, except these focus on frog metamorphosis

PICTURE 6: Plant Life Cycle Sequence Cards
Again designed to learn the sequence of the life cycle using the 3-part cards

PICTURE 7: Sunflower Seeds and Compost
Your little one can grow their very own sunflower and see the life cycle of a plant in reality!

PICTURE 8: Butterfly Paper Craft
The activity is designed to develop and refine fine motor skills (physical development) and concentration. (The completed butterfly is for illustration only and not included)

PICTURE 9: Scavenger Hunt Bag
This activity is designed to develop independent observation and exploration skills while having fun.
Magnifying Glass
Your little one can use the magnifying glass to look closely at details in nature to further their learning.

Phew! That's a lot of learning!

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THIS MONTH'S BOX
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Practical Life

🇬🇧 Made in the UK by 🎓 a qualified Montessori's educator

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ACTIVITIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT!
I thought I'd share a quick explanation of the activities I have designed, so you know how amazing this month's subscription box is!

PICTURE 1: 3-Part Cards (there are 12 designs included)
To teach vocabulary and introduce text linked to familiar items.

PICTURE 2: Bracelet Making Kit
To develop and refine threading skills. Preparation for sewing. To strengthen tripod grip.

PICTURE 3: Cleaning Cloth
To care for own environment. To refine cleaning skills. To refine motor skills (physical development).

PICTURE 4: Cutting Strips
To develop cutting skills. To refine fine motor skills and control.

PICTURE 5: Placemat (this is not made out of wood! It is my favourite creation and is actually a photograph of the side of Zachary's cot and a little bit of Photoshop magic!)
To learn how to lay a dining table. To learn independence.

PICTURE 6: Practical Life Bingo
To learn self-care and care for environment. To develop independence. To refine motor skills.

PICTURE 7: Recipe Cards
To learn how to prepare food. To develop independence. Learn how to measure. Practice following step by step instructions.

PICTURE 8: Shopping List and Stickers
To recognise food ingredients. To refine fine motor skills and learn writing/linking text to an image.

PICTURE 9: Weaving Card Strips
To develop and refine weaving skills. Preparation for sewing. To refine fine motor skills.

Phew! That's a lot of learning!

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🌍 GEOGRAPHY

This topic will be back in November 2022

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🦔 AUTUMN NATURE

This topic will be back again in September 2022

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ALSO INCLUDED! (There's more pictures than Instagram allow in a single post!)

1️⃣1️⃣ Short Bead Stair - This is a genuine Montessori resource.

Full details on how to present this and all the other activities comes inside the box, so you can teach your child the Montessori way with the need to do any formal training!

ACTIVITIES IN THIS MONTHS BOX

1️⃣ Cards and Counters
2️⃣ Names of the Quantities
3️⃣ Quantity Recognition Activity
4️⃣ Cards and Sticks (similar concept to a spindle box)
5️⃣ Numbers 3-Part Cards
6️⃣ Fractions 3-Part Cards
7️⃣ Addition Activity
8️⃣ Subtraction Activity
9️⃣ Multiplication Activity
🔟 Division Activity

Full details on how to present the activities always comes inside each box, so you can teach your child the Montessori way without the need to do any formal training!

This month's topic is NUMERACY!
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Great observations! We love how Learn, Create, Play extended the learning.

This looks amazing, we love the addition of heading cards. There are some budding artists here experimenting with colour!

Just stumbled across this on Facebook! It's so lovely seeing our activities being loved by little ones!

Win win! When children work independently allowing you to get something done yourself that's got to be a good thing?!

little one using one of the activities from our colours box.

We love seeing our activities in action! little ones busy doing the colour hunt; one of the activities from our colour box.

Just look at that concentration face! getting stuck into one of the activities from the colours box and learning which primary colours to mix to make secondary colours 🌈

A beautiful setup from using items from last month's colours box 🌈 🥰

This month's topic is SCIENCE!
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Little Growing Minds – Montessori Subscription Boxes The contents in every box have been lovingly planned and designed by a fully qualified Early Years Educator in Montessori Pedagogy

ACTIVITIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT!
This month's box is SCIENCE 🧬🧲

Picture 1 - Animate and Inanimate Cards
This is the activity I was introduced to when I did my Montessori training. The concept behind it is to introduce animate and inanimate to give a concrete understanding of the classification of animate and inanimate items.

Picture 2 - Parts of a Flower 3-Part Cards
The idea behind this activity is to teach vocabulary and introduce text linked to flower anatomy.

Picture 3 - Parts of a Tree 3-Part Cards
The aim of this activity is to teach vocabulary and introduce text linked to the parts of a tree.

Picture 4 - Parts of a Flower Reference Sheet
This can be used alongside the 3-part cards or on its own to teach vocabulary and introduce text linked to flower anatomy. It also helps to distinguish the different parts of a flower.

Picture 5 - Parts of a Tree Reference Sheet
This can be used alongside the 3-part cards or on its own to teach vocabulary and introduce text linked to the parts of a tree. It also helps to distinguish the different parts of a tree.

Picture 6 - Magnet
Because Montessori advocated the need to learn from first hand experiences, this is perfect to introduce the concept of magnetism because it is a real magnet!

Picture 7 - Magnetic & Non-magnetic Objects with Heading Cards
Use the magnet in the box, explore with the objects which may or may not be attracted by the magnet and categorise them under the headings.

Picture 8 - Floating & Sinking Objects with Heading Cards
The purpose of this activity is to introduce the concept of floating and sinking. Children can begin to relate the characteristic of floating and sinking to weight and density and further develop categorising objects.

Picture 9 - Cotton Reel, Elastic Bands and Sticks (to make an elastic powered car)
This is a fun activity and a great introduction to kinetic energy and force. The activity also encourages refinement of fine motor skills.

Picture 10 - Propeller & Stick (to make a hand propelled helicopter)
This is another fun Introduction to kinetic energy and force, but with just the use of the hands. In turn this helps to refine fine and gross motor skills.

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ACTIVITY IN ACTION!

Our completed Colour Hunt! This was so much fun and it was a great way to connect with the outdoors and observe all the beauty we have on our doorstep.

This and many more activities that are authentic to Montessori Education of the Senses are included in this month's sensorial colour box.

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ACTIVITY IN ACTION!

I took my four children out on the colour hunt (included in this month's box). All the children got involved, even the eldest who is 17 (the youngest who is 8 months just wanted to eat everything!) It was a great activity we all thoroughly enjoyed!

(The second picture shows the branch we thought was a huge snake in the tree!)

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