Montessori Classroom Activities for 3-5 year olds.

I would like to share with you snapshots of our day in the Montessori classroom. Please forgive me for not including proper Montessori work photographs, like binomial cube or sound box activity. These are always there, and children continuously use them. In this particular post, I would like to share our new activities.
As part of our cultural study, we were talking about our state. On the news, we read that palaeontologist found dinosaur’s fossils in our region. Children were fascinated to learn how people discover bones and parts of dinosaurs and collect all the pieces together to get a whole picture. As an activity I set up a tub with sand, rocks and some pasta (for “bones”) with tools for kids to dig out pieces of “dinosaurs” put make a skeleton picture.

As an extension to this activity, I froze dinosaurs in water and children used hammer and nails to get those dinosaurs out. They enjoyed it so much as it was a great sensory activity as well. You should have seen their excitement when they got to get one of the dinosaurs out 🙂

Here is our silence activity. Children could take it to a mat if they wanted to have some quiet time.

Fine motor activity.

This is just one of the drawings of our kids – using metal insets.

Montessori Classroom Activity Shelves..

An insect display with living grasshoppers, stick insect and ladybugs. This boosted kids’ curiosity like nothing else. For the whole week they did so many insect crafts, drawings, colourings, read insect books, were catching insect with nets outside. All children were driven. Loved it.

Special thanks for Janette D for generously sharing photos of her classroom!

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Kim Huff says
March 18, 2013 at 8:26 pm

great science activities, I'm going to have to borrow some of these ideas.

JDaniel4's Mom says
March 25, 2013 at 12:25 pm

What wonderful ways to explore science concepts!

Emma @ P is for Preschooler says
November 30, 2013 at 5:53 pm

These are such fun dinosaur ideas! I love the "bone" dig! We've done the frozen dinos too and it was a big hit here 🙂

Missy says
December 4, 2013 at 12:25 am

My kids love pretending to be paleontologists, especially my 6 year old son 🙂 But he loves anything to do with dinosaurs! Thanks for the great ideas!

montessori teacher says
January 31, 2015 at 3:33 pm

A lot of inspiration. I´m curious about the lego trays. I can´t see the details…

Filippa, Swedish montessori teacher

montessori teacher says
January 31, 2015 at 3:35 pm

A lot of inspiration! I´m curious about the shelves with lego trays. I can´t see the details.

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- MontessoriNature says
  February 6, 2015 at 11:15 pm
  
  I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. These were found here: http://livingmontessorinow.com/2013/06/20/free-lego-printables-and-70-plus-lego-learning-activities/
  I hope it is helpful!
  
Kara says
May 9, 2018 at 3:17 am

Great shelf inspiration!
I found the same balance scale, it’s hard to see how big the scale is, how did it work out for the kids/toddlers?