Montessori Morning

B~ Cheerios, fresh pear slices, milk
S~ Apple slices, ritz crackers, filtered water
L~ Spaghetti with Ragu Robusto sauce, broccoli.carrots/cauliflower, american cheese, wheat bread and butter
S~


We've had a great day. I have the Lion and the Mouse book and found a large lion puppet for loan at the library. Today we read the book again and played it out using the lion and a felt mouse- the proportions were great :-)  We also read Bear Feels Sick and we compared how in both stories the friend needed help and then was able to return the help- I hadn't planned it that way but it sure worked out well! :-)

I saw an idea on Pinterest using colored plastic cups on the light table, so I got some this weekend and the kids have loved stacking them! They are disposable cups so we have to watch for breakage, but I am pleased with how much they enjoyed them. And, yeah, they are shot glasses lol

We also had a Montessori morning, some days when one child asks to use one of the materials, they all want to, and today was one of those days. I am glad when they use them. :-)
If it were not for the really small parts I would have them out at their level, as they get older I will try that.

Phaedra with the new cups for the light table

Lelia counting

Addison and Phaedra

Lelia with the lion puppet from the library

Charli

Ivy really loved the cups

She stacked them one inside the other most of the morning

Charli with our "snow" playdough

Jack

Brendan, Lelia and Charli

Charli on guitar with Singer Addison

Charli with a little snowman I made

Addison and Lelia

Brendan with the cups

Jack

Charli and Ivy

Ivy with the pink tower

Everyone!

Brendan with the knobless cylinders

Lelia with the shape sorter

Charli with the knobbed cylinders

Addison's tower with the red knobless cylinders

Everyone

Jack

Oops time for a tissue!

Jack was sooo happy when someone put this construction hat within reach!

Jack, Addison and Boog (wearing goggles)

I was reading a book to them and I had to get a photo of how they looked: Charli in the goggles, Ivy with the stethoscope that she wore most of the day, and Addison with the lion puppet

We added a balloon to bounce around in the parachute

Brian was home sick and had a miraculous recovery once he did not have to go to school

Phaedra's pyramid stack

Outside! Charli on the 3-seat swing

Ivy getting ready to cook

Addison and Ivy

Swinging! It's been a while!

Addison, Ivy, Charli, and Brendan