Fri, April 9th, 2010

Nomenclature Cards

3 Part Cards

If you’ve never heard of nomenclature cards, they’re a pre-reading tool utilized mostly by Montessori education. They’re also called three part cards or classification cards. They’re generally classified by type of something, i.e. birds, transportation, household items, mammals, etc.

As the name suggests, they come in 3 parts. A name piece, a picture [...]

Sat, March 27th, 2010

Fire Fire!

Bean’s been a sucker for fire engines since he was a year old. He suddenly had a resurgence of interest a week and change ago, so we did a fire engine day.

Tires & Ladder for Cutting

The night before I drew two circles for tires and a ladder shape on a black piece of construction [...]

Wed, March 24th, 2010

The Bee Tree

The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco

The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco was our Sonlight p3/4 book of choice today. After Mary Ellen grows tired of reading, Grampa takes her, and an ever-growing number of neighbors, on a chase of pollen footed bumblebees around the Michigan woods. The illustrations are quite colorful and, while Bean [...]

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