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 palaeontologists 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 🙂
great science activities, I'm going to have to borrow some of these ideas.
What wonderful ways to explore science concepts!
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 🙂
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!
A lot of inspiration. I´m curious about the lego trays. I can´t see the details…
Filippa, Swedish montessori teacher
A lot of inspiration! I´m curious about the shelves with lego trays. I can´t see the details.
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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!
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?