MishMish Montessori

Happy Earth Day! 🌍 Earth Day is a great opportunity to learn about our planet and serves as our reminder to introduce new habits into our lives in order to contribute to postive change. Swipe to see what you can do to bring some of these concepts into your home 🌱

🌟OBJECT AND SOUND BOXES🌟
How do you start the montessori learning journey with your child? Naturally, we begin with the alphabet. In Montessori, we do not teach the name of the letters, rather we teach the sound the letters make. One way we do this is with object and sound boxes. Object and sound boxes not only teach sound association, but they also build vocabulary through association of names with objects.

For example, for the letter "A" we would not put "airplane" as an object, instead we would want "apple, axe, ant, armadillo, etc."

📍How to make these boxes yourself:
*we don't want to have more than 4 sounds (letters) in one box*

- write the lowercase letter on a card

- find small objects around your home or cut them out of magazines

- have your child trace the letter on the card with their finger. If you have a textured material to make the shape out of, that is a plus! We use tape with the texture of fine sandpaper

- have your child match the sounds with the corresponding letters

Here is last week's classroom reading for  📚 Hunting down a good book for a particular age group, especially those as young as preschool and kinder, can have its challenges... if you worry about the text. If you find a book with well made illustrations that will keep your kiddos engaged, don't worry too much about the words!

I like to prep for my class readings by stopping by the library, grabbing some books and reading through a few of them, so that I am able to simplify the text into something more easily digestible for the kids, while they enjoy the imagery the book has to offer! Win-Win🎉