lady bug , this time for real

Jr S loved to play with this little lady bug for a few minutes, then the lady bug flew away.This is actually an old picture , and that's my nephews hand . Both of them played with her. Just found the pic so decided to share it .

farm animals again!!!!

I have no idea why Jr S loves farm animals so much . But I am glad she does. So I opened one of her bday gifts the other day and it was  a beautiful wooden puzzle with huge pieces. And we had a fun time trying to solve it. I think my nephew's obsession with puzzles is rubbing off on her and I am thrilled about it. We talked about corner pieces, continuity of pictures. I know she is retaining this information because when I got her some smaller puzzles , she would talk about it even though I still had to guide her through the puzzle.

Rodeo

Jr S has a Go- Texan day at her Montessori this Friday and so we decided to decorate a cowboy hat with pink and purple flowers and stars. She enjoyed it a lot but after finishing the decoration, she took them all off and started all over again. She did this about 3 times, ripped many flowers so we ended the activity by saying goodbye to the hat .We plan to complete the ensemble with pink bandanas and button down white shirt and jeans. It will interesting to see if she actually will let me put all that on. Till Friday then… eee-haw

Matching game

I saw a pack of games at walmart the other day , for about 2 $ , It had a bingo game , 24 piece puzzle and these cards for Crazy eight. Now I confess , I have no clue what Crazy eight is but Jr S opened the pack of cards and before I knew it she started arranging them in a line and match them up. So It was great , good for visual discrimination and fine motor for handling those cards .
 Sorry about the photo, but thats exactly how she lined them up.

Fun shaped parathas

We had a blast making these fun shaped parathas (obvious cookie cutters from Christmas...star, snowflake, gingerbread man) . She loved to eat them too. Plus they were healthy too .  Jr S loves to play with dough, she mooshed it so much that I had a "fun" clean up too.

Patterning activity with hearts

We made patterns with different colored construction paper hearts and Jr S copied the last pattern. I have used some patterns from Montessori for everyone in the past but I found better success with presenting atleast 2 full pattern sets for her to seee before trying to imitate. She loved to do it the first time. the second time I let her choose the pattern and she was ofcourse much too happy about it.

farm animals again!!!

This time we sorted farm and wild animals using the plastic figurines from Target with tongs. She loves to keep the farm animals safe from the wild animals. Spring and Summer visits to the farm are in order.