Practical lessons

here is a reference for great PL for montessori...i luv 'em!
http://mommyme-thewonderyears.blogspot.com/search/label/Practical%20Life
http://www.joymontessori.net/2007/02/ideas-for-practical-life-activities.html

references for starting out

so today is wednesday. we worked with the mat. i'll keep observing to see how that goes within the next few days to see if i need to revisit this.

i really like OldCreekMontessori.blogspot.com (OCM) & maybemontessori.blogspot.com - the items that OCM covered during her first day were the following. After listing, wow! PL:
(1) toothpick jar ;(2) paper punching; (3) stamping tray; (4) sweeping with pompons (not presented the first day); (5) golf balls transfering (one-by-one into another basket); (6) bean pouring- jug to jug without spilling; (7) spooning wooden balls with melon baller; (8) cutting with scissors (into small pieces); (9) spooning beans with spoon

Culture & Sensorial & others
(1) world puzzle (with knobs); (2) sandpaper globe; (3) drawing with marker; (4) drawing with crayons; (5) hammering in clay; (6) stringing beads; (7) Cylinder block #1; (8) regular puzzle; (9) "sewing a cirlcle" ; (10) building with duplo blocks; (11) clipping with clothespins; (12) snap frame

now for Period 1: Gettman suggests the following
Language: Classified pictures & speech stages & I spy
Culture: Land & Water presentation
Sensorial: Cylinder blocks, Pink tower, Color tablet #1, Presentation tray of Geo. Cabinet, Sensitizing fingers, Touch boards, Presentation of Geo. solids, Stereognostic bags presentation
Practical: Pouring beans between 2 jugs, Opening & closing containers, Buttoning, Buckling, Other simple dressing frames, Carrying & laying floor mats, Saying "Thank You", Other grace & courtesy work, Carrying a Tray; Lifting, carrying, & putting down a chair, Sitting down on & getting up from a chair at a table, Climbing & descending stairs, Walking on the line, Folding, Hanging clothes on a hook, Brushing hair, Dusting

trying again to do something

my girls r soo willing to do some work at home. so i'm going to attempt it this time with a little dilligence, inshaAllah.

today..new dua for before starting any type of learning: Rabi zidni 'ilma. (oh Lord, increase me in my knowledge)

did some qaida with noori. we did lesson 10 where basically u define what each letter is in a 2-letter word. she somehow got stumped on the same letters in Lesson 11. Too long sitting maybe? when i told her to take a 5-min break while i work with Leeboo, she began to cry 'cuz she doesn't want a break and she doesn't want to do work either.... meanwhile, Leeboo had the rail (for her Qaida) that Mr. Lion snatched from under her book & then she had a fit 'cuz he wouldn't give it to her. For that 2-min interval, i had Noori crying 'cuz I told her to take a break & Leeboo screaming 'cuz Mr. L wouldn't give her the rail & Mr. L crying 'cuz Leeboo was trying to snatch it back from her.... omg...for a second i felt soo frustrated & lost... then i told Leeboo to use Mr. L's stool (i got it at thrift store yesterday for a buck!) & as soon as we did, Mr. L gave Leeboo her rail back.

Then when Noori finally got up to play with Noona, we had barely gotten 5min into the lesson, & Leeboo started to fidget and didn't want to work anymore. ... i don't know

but then to change to mood, i showed how to roll, unroll & carry the working mats. i hadn't found any appropriate place to put the stuff in. so i just took a plastic purple basket i had and put the stuff in it. it seems to work fine. so that was nice. Noona knew how to work with mat since he went to a montessori preschool for about 2months..