Friday Five~ Montessori Language
Well I am excited to tell you that Lori over at Montessori Moments is starting a new link up called Friday Five! Each Friday, she is sharing her favorite things from a section of the Montessori classroom! Today she shared her five favorite things in the Language area! Here are mine:
1. Sandpaper Letters: I love these, the kids love these, and they are an amazing way for kids to learn the letter sounds simply! Pup has learned her letter sounds so quickly with these and I have had other kiddos over to my house and they have learned too! Who knew learning to read, write, and spell could be as simple as sand covered letters? I use the D’neialian script since its a bit like cursive and print at the same time!
2. Metal Insets: We LOVE these here! When I first started doing Montessori work, I was confused about why these were considered a language materials. When I found out it was about learning to use and control a pencil, I could instantly see it working! Both of my girls used these a lot! In fact we used them to make pictures. Snowmen, houses, even people have been made using the insets!
3.Grammar Farm: Grammar farm is actually not something we have used as much as I thought we would but we still love it! 🙂 Honestly, you don’t need to have use a farm, any play scape set up would work just as well. Use a doll house, a construction scene, or a train set. The make some tags with words for each part of a sentence (Noun, Adjective, Verb, etc). The child sets up the piece and uses the work tags to build sentence about the objects. Its fun and game like! A perfect way to play with sentence parts! Bunny didn’t get to use it too much because she was still trying to read! But I think this year she will still have fun with it!
4. Grammar Symbols: I love these for teaching grammar! There is a bit of a story behind each one and this really allows the child to “see” each part of the sentence when they see the symbol. Bunny loves them totally and always wants to know more about them. I think that one of the things she loves to do is to put the right symbol over the words in a sentence and use all the colors!
5. Object Boxes: I love these because there are about a million fun ways to use them! The set above is from Montessori Services and it really does have about everything! I am thinking about buying this for Pup this year because we are missing a lot of sounds and this has them all! You can make sound boxes with these, opposites, rhyming, eye spy, and well a bunch of other games! There is a lot learning packed into these little bits!
So those are my picks! Want to play along? Well pop on over to Montessori Moments for a fun linky party! Stop and see what others are saying are the best Montessori language materials!
August 3, 2013 @ 3:52 am
Stephanie, I love your Friday Five! It’s fun to see the things that are the same in your list, mine and Julie’s. It’s a great testimony to how wonderful those materials area and how they are working with different kids from different parts of the country. Thanks for taking the time to link up and I’ll get all the kinks worked out for next time…even if it kills me. 🙂
August 4, 2013 @ 1:08 am
You are right! I love this whole idea! I also loved how some of the pics were not Montessori and I thought this maybe a really great homeschooling link up. Think of all the cool products we could learn about! Thanks for hosting!
August 3, 2013 @ 5:32 am
I love your favorite fives! Thanks to this link party, I just remembered about needing to re-create a grammar farm and buy the grammar symbols for my daughter. I hope she gets to use them since the metal insets didn’t get to much attention. Have a great weekend!
August 4, 2013 @ 1:13 am
Good luck with your grammar farm! We love the grammar symbols so much! Cultivating Dharma’s free elementary albums have the stories that go with each one! Bunny loves them! Your picks were great too! Happy Schooling!
August 4, 2013 @ 2:58 pm
At school we have a lot of theme baskets. We started off with a farm but we also have a house, a space theme and a fairy basket. I am trying to make one each term to go with an interest expressed n the great lessons, so a volcano theme, a dinosaur theme, an early humans theme, an ancient civilisation theme and so on. It keeps the interest of the children going and allows you to capture some who have not yet been hooked!
August 5, 2013 @ 1:15 am
Anna that is a brilliant idea! I think that I may need to so something like that here! The farm is cool, but all the other ideas that will tie into what is being learned it really taking it to the next level! Wow! Thanks for sharing! As always you are amazing! By the way are you still blogging?