Monarch Learning Place

10/30/2022

❤️ a few weeks ago we celebrated my son’s best friend’s birthday. 🧩 🐕‍🦺

When we add experiences cooking we are working on the following:

Understanding kitchen safety
Understanding cooking vocabulary
Identifying and using cooking tools
Reading and following a recipe
Preparing for and planning a cooking project

Let’s use the kitchen as a classroom too! 😃

10/27/2022

Can 🐓 help to carve a 🎃 ?

“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

-Albert Einstein.

07/01/2022

The first five years are the MOST important to all children. IMO for kids with developmental delays can be a little bit longer than that, especially depending on the diagnosis and medical history.

Take multiple opportunities during the day to engage with your child, see the wonderful benefits that can give you in return. ❤️

06/01/2022

05/30/2022

Practical life activities are applicable for all ages, even infants, and change depending on what the child can do at each stage of development. The activities can start with something as simple as pulling pants up or washing hands and can get as complicated as baking a dessert, or even developing a business plan in the elementary or middle school years.

When taken seriously and presented as an approachable, impactful challenge, these activities hold inherent dignity. It’s not “just” getting dressed or "just" juicing an orange if one is doing it oneself. The child is learning to follow a complex motor sequence, independently, in order to fulfill his or her own desires and needs. These skills, when taught early in life, allow children to believe in themselves as well as develop the self-discipline needed for success throughout their lives.

Info taken from:

https://guidepostmontessori.com/blog/practical-life-activities-montessori-method

04/27/2022

Project based learning is a learning approach that can be beneficial for students with special needs.

Here are the reasons why:

💻 A challenging problem or question to investigate and solve, either concrete or abstract.
A sustained inquiry process involving more than “googling the answer.”

💬🌎 An authentic, real-world problem or question.

📣 Substantial student voice and input, including project organization and process.

🧠 Student reflection on the learning process.

💭Constructive criticism and individual revisions.

🎬Presentation of process and results.

We are currently learning all about 🐣

Science: we will study the life cycle

Social: observe how they can communicate

Math: calculate the food we need to buy and materials we need to build their chicken coop

Cooking: well, wait for the 🥚 🍳 😃 and explore different recipes

Need help using PBL with your homeschooling? Feel free to ask how we can help you ❤️

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04/15/2022

Look how at our cucumbers grow!!

04/08/2022

How to make STEM activities meaningful?

Here is an easy way.
With the help of Leah Brooks (distributor for Tower Garden) we were able to be successful.
I highly recommend Leah, she goes above and beyond solving any mysteries that may come up 🙃 this was our first trial and looks pretty cool!

Things we learned:

Seedling 🌱

Appropriate amount of sunlight

We practice sequencing

Vocabulary words

And we cook together

04/06/2022

How are you going to celebrate earth day?

Here we are learning all about composting 😃
We worked on assembling a composting bin

03/23/2022

As homeschoolers, we work everyday on making the learning process as authentic and realistic as much as possible. It is our philosophy, to raise an independent learner who is capable of finding solutions independently.

What did we worked on?
He was interested to know what those spots on the leaf were, we found out that it is a fungus 😢 now let’s try to find out if cinnamon is a true natural fungicide.
🤞 😬 hope this works.

03/16/2022

Diapers? Gardening? Wait what?!
😃 cool experiment we are working on.

During this lesson, we incorporated our music therapist, to help us by making a song that can memorizing the scientific method. 😃

03/16/2022

We started creating a butterfly garden 🪴 🦋 like always here are the educational benefits:

🏃🏽‍♀️ It provides engaging, moderate exercise

💪 It builds a sense confidence

🧬 It develops STEM & analytical abilities

🧘🏽 It relieves stress

🧠 It improves focus & memory

✌️ It positively impacts mood & psychological wellbeing

🍲 learn together where food comes from

👩‍🍳 cook healthier meals

🐝 learn together about pollination

🗣 Expand language