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postheaderıcon Books about Trees

For our tree theme this past week, we enjoyed quite a few tree books.

Bear’s favorite has by far been A Tree for Emmy.
Emmy loves trees, but her favorites are mimosa trees.  She spends a lot of time with her gramma’s mimosa tree, but wants her own, so for her birthday, she asks for a mimosa tree.  Unfortunately, you can’t buy a wild tree.  The illustrations are whimsical.  I like the mixed media used for them.  I wish the book didn’t use the phrases “Dumb old stores” and “dumb old tree.”  I just changed the wording a little while I read.  Of course, that doesn’t work if your child can read.
Four more fiction books we read (and enjoyed) about trees were 
How the Ladies Stopped the Wind, The man who Lived in a Hollow Tree, The Giving Tree, and The Growing Up Tree.

The Growing Up Tree was Bear’s second most requested book.  It chronicles the life of an apple seed planted for a little baby by his mother.  It’s a bit sad at the end, as the baby, now an old man, dies, as well as the tree, but this didn’t seem to bother Bear.

Most of the non fiction books we ended up with had too much text to hold Bear’s attention.  However, we both really enjoyed From Little Acorns…a first look at the life cycle of a tree, and The Tree.

To see what others are reading, visit  What My Child is Reading, Read Aloud Thursday, and Feed Me Books Friday.

postheaderıcon Baby Binomial Cube

J-jo’s favorite thing is to be in on the action when Bear is playing.
I often have to be very creative in how to get him away from all of the little things she plays with.
He loves opening and closing this jewelry box we got free at a garage sale.  My mom showed him how to put a cube in there.  Now he’s constantly putting them in and out.  Opening and closing.  It kind of reminds me of the binomial cube – put cubes and prisms in, close the lid.
This is the work I now give J-jo when I am presenting lessons to Bear or assisting her with something.
Our binomial and trinomial cubes arrived in the mail.  Lesson learned: do not open new materials in front of student if not intending student to use them right away.  For some reason, the trinomial cube held much greater appeal to her than the binomial.  She sure got motivated to master that binomial cube once I told her the trinomial cube could only be used after learning the binomial.
The trinomial is a lot trickier. Of course, she didn’t give me time to read or watch exactly how she should place the pieces on her mat.  I’m sure the authentic Montessori way allows you to see relationships better. 

postheaderıcon We play – Indoor Playgrounds

 
 

Why didn’t we have places like this when I was a child?  This place is fantastic.  We got to jump into large cubes of foam, jump on in-ground trampolines, swing on ropes, and ride a zip line.  What a great time Bear had. It’s great that we have options to play physically indoors for super hot summer days (or super rainy fall and winter ones).

Come over and play at the Childhood 101 We Play link up

postheaderıcon Infant Montessori

I made J-jo two more activities.  The first was this one here with the empty wipes container and some plastic lids.  He is starting to be able to push the lids in if I start them in the slot.

Observing this, I decided to create something a little easier for him.
I gave him a large jar and a cylinder block.  He can actually almost get the cylinder into the jar all by himself.  It’s very cute to watch.

The next thing I did was cut a hole in a little box I had.  I put a piece of velcro (those self stick velcro circles) on the flap of the lid.

(I’ve been borrowing my mom’s camera while she’s here and my computer keeps flipping the pictures on me.  I’m not sure how to correct it.)
So it’s basically an imbucare box.
image from neinhuis

At this point, J-jo prefers the jar and cylinder.  He just likes to chew the cardboard box. 

postheaderıcon Montessori Monday

Just a few highlights.
Grinding rosemary in the mortar with the pestle has been Bear’s favorite activity all week.
We did a lot of tree-related activities, which I posted about here and here.
Another of Bear’s favorite things this week was watering the tomatoes. 
She looks at everything through that magnifying glass.

I got this clock at Target. I had a photo of Bear using it, but it is blurry and sideways every time I stick it in the post.  It’s great for teaching time.  Bear can tell time to the hour after just ten minutes of playing with this.  It has little sliding doors below the clock face to hide the hour and minutes and Bear loves changing the time, telling me the hour, and then opening the little door to check.  She’s really into checking her work this week.  I think it has to do with the self-checking tree activities I made her.
This female cardinal was at our front door this morning.  We walked by her to the car several times before she decided we were too close and flew away.  We think she may have hit the glass storm door and been a little stunned.  She was so beautiful and I couldn’t believe how close we were to her.

postheaderıcon Books Bear Enjoyed This Week

 Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers is a Let’s Read and Find Out Science book.  It was a little advanced for Bear, but for some reason, she loved it.  I skipped some of the details about the valves because that was on the pages she didn’t like with just the diagram of the heart.  I think what sold her was how he did the sound of the different heart beats as the kids use their toilet paper tube stethoscopes.

A Drop of Blood (also by Paul Showers) was better in terms of level.  I felt she stayed with the whole book, instead of getting antsy partway through (as with hear Your Heart).She talks about blood frequently now. She wanted this one every night!

Jessica’s X-Ray by Pat Zonta was a very cool book with actual x-rays to observe.  Bear chose this one herself off the shelf at the library and I’m glad she did.

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present was a non human body favorite.  It is by Charlotte Zolotow.  She wrote another sweet story that was a favorite of ours called I Like to be Little.  In this book, the little girl searches for the perfect present for her mother with the help of a rabbit.  It just appeals to a little one’s sense of wonder and fantasy.  Very Waldorf.

postheaderıcon Fancy Chocolate Spoons

Delicious Delicious Delicious party spoons
These fancy chocolate spoons are a great
idea for a party or just a special treat!
Directions at Delicious Delicious Delicious.
Found via the wonderful, Edible Crafts!



postheaderıcon Shape Collages!

Let's Explore shape collage
Let's Explore shares a perfect rainy day activity –
shape collages! Who could resist these
bright colors and shapes?



postheaderıcon Paper Bird Cages

Krokotak paper bird cages
I love these adorable kid-friendly paper bird
cages at Krokotak! Inspiration for these, and a
more sophisticated version, at The Bride's Cafe.



postheaderıcon Make Your Own Butterfly Collection

Growing Up Creative butterfly collection
Growing Up Creative shares a great tutorial
showing you how to make your own framed
butterfly collection. Tap into your imagination
or try to keep it as realistic as possible, either
way you'll have fun and learn something :)



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