Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Peres Noel en boite
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Formation de pere noel
Friday, 26 November 2010
Christmas bedtime stories
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Montessori Literacy Curriculum
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Polir des pieces en cuivre
Transfert a la seringue et mélange des couleurs
Halloween maths
The children take turns to throw the die and place the corresponding number of ghosts on their board. You can play competitively: the first child to finish their grid wins; or cooperatively by placing both grids one above the other and placing your ghosts right after your partner's.
Pour les jeunes joueurs je conseillererais de commencer par compter les fantomes a ajouter avant de les placer sur la grille, cela évitera des confusions!
Ce jeu est aussi utile pour renforcer le sens de lecture; l'enfant place ses fantomes de gauche a droite et de haut en bas.
This game is also great to reinforce the reading and writing direction as the children place their ghosts from left to right and top to bottom.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Variante du sac mystere
Then, the adult, or another child, places one of the objects in the blue pouch, seals it with the velcro tab, and places the other vehicles into the drawstring bag while the child looks away. The child has to feel through the thin fabric of the pouch to try and feel the characteristics of the object. They have to remember the attributes of each object and take the time to make a decision. When they think they know which object is hidden, they can open the bag and check their assumption.
This activity helps the child to refine their kinaesthetic sense, improve their memory, concentraition and language if the names of the objects are unknown.
J'ai du préparer une présentation détaillée de cette activité pour ma formation Montessori, si ca vous intéresse vous pouvez afficher le texte (en anglais seulement) en cliquant ici.
I had to write up step by step guidelines of this activity for my Montessori training course, if you are interested you can see the text by clicking here.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Labeur du weekend
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Extension a la carte des continents
A la fin de l'article, vous trouverez mes fiches a télécharger.
Friday, 5 November 2010
Influence Waldorf
A few months ago I was inspired by the book "Creative Play for your toddler" by Christopher Clouder and Janni Nicol to make a few toys. It is a really interesting book because as well as giving detailed explanations on how to make toys, it also gives you the Waldorf background information that goes with each of them, explaining how they help children develop. The projects have been classified into four categories, self, imagination, interaction and discovery.
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Y'a pas d'images! There aren't any pictures!
Dimanche apres-midi, il y avait la premiere version film de Charlie et la chocolaterie a la télé, ce qui m'a décidée a me lancer. Oui, car Alex est FOU de chocolat et je me suis dit que le livre de Roald Dahl serait parfait.
Vous vous demandez peut-etre pourquoi je trouve ca si important de lire des livres de ce type a son age. Il y a plusieurs raisons a cela. En particulier, ca enrichit son vocabulaire, ameliore sa concentration et sa capacité a imaginer, alors que les livres trop graphiques et pas assez bavards qu'il a l'habitude de lire limitent ses apprentissages en n'utilisant que des mots connus, en limitant le nombre de mots par page et en le forcant a accepter les représentations de l'illustrateur. Peu de liberté en somme.
J' ai bien ménagé mon effet et lui ai annoncé que deux jours plus tard, on commencerait a lire "un livre de grands", avec peu d'images, a propos d'une usine a chocolat et d'un chocolatier un peu fou. Il s'est tout de suite montré extremement intéressé et voulait commencer la lecture la, tout de suite. Avant ce jour-la il n'avait jamais EXIGE qe je lui fasse la lecture, alors je me suis empressée de répondre a son souhait pour etre sure de ne pas rater le moment (mon coté Montessori, surement).
J'avais prévu de commencer avec un ou deux chapitres seulement le premier jour mais son enthousiasme m'a poussée a continuer jusqu'a la fin du troisieme chapitre. Le lendemain, il m'a demandé de continuer notre lecture, ainsi que le jour suivant. Aujourd'hui cela fait trois jours qu'on a commencé Charlie et on en est a la moitié du livre. Je n'en reviens toujours pas. Est-ce possible qu'il ait ete pret depuis plusieurs semaines ou meme mois?
Il s'est bien exclamé "il y a pas d'images!" comme prévu, mais il a suffit que je réponde: "tu vois des images dans ta tete, non?" pour qu'il s'en contente.
Il est fasciné par les billets d'or, les glaces qui ne fondent jamais, les chewing gums qui ne perdent pas leur gout, les oompa loompas et toutes choses sorties de l'imagination de Roald Dahl. C'était surement le livre idéal pour une premiere lecture de grand.
I had been thinking for a while about starting to read books without pictures to Alex. At four and a half years, is it too early? Is he really ready? What if he rejects books saying, "there aren't any pictures!" Will I risk putting him off forever? A lot of question which soon proved unfounded.
On Sunday afternoon, there was the first version of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film on TV, which helped me make up my mind. Alex is CRAZY about chocolate so I thought that Roald Dahl's "Charlie" would be perfect.
You might be wondering why I find it so important to read a book of this type at his age. There are lots of reasons to do so. In particular, it enriches his vocabulary, improves his concentration span and his capacity to imagine when picture books force him to accept the illustrator’s own representation of the story and limit the number of words per page as well as their difficulty. It is like speaking to a baby only using the words that they know: mama, milk, sleep. It is quite limiting, isn’t it?
I tried to instil some suspense and announced that two days later we would be starting to read a “big boys book” with few pictures about a chocolate factory and a crazy chocolate maker. He immediately showed strong interest and wanted to start reading now. Before that day he had never DEMANDED that I read to him, so I fetched the book so as not to miss the opportunity (my Montessori influence, probably).
I had planned to only start with one or two chapters but his enthusiasm after the first pages pushed me to continue to the end of the third chapter. The next day, he asked me to read on, and the next day. Today it has been three days since we started Charlie and we have read half of it. I still can’t believe it! Is it possible that he had been ready for many weeks or even months?He did exclaim: “There aren’t any pictures!” but I replied to him: “You can see pictures in your head, can’t you?” and he never mentioned it again.
He is fascinated by golden tickets, ice cream that never melts, chewing gum that never loses its taste, the oompa loompas and all things out of Roald Dahl’s imagination. This was probably the ideal title to start reading “big boys books”.
Monday, 1 November 2010
Cadre des petits boutons
I cut the front of the shirt, quickly hemmed all sides using the sewing machine and used tacks to secure the fabric on the back of the frame. I added a little ring on the top of the frame to be able to hang it on the wall easily.
Maintenant je vais me mettre aux autres cadres!