Want to make a “TRASH-O-SAURUS”??!!
I lost my internet connection this week. That’s a total bummer since writing on the blog is a major outlet for me since we’re so new to the area (and I know very few people yet). The kids and I had...
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Timelines
Montessori uses five “Great Lessons” as an introduction to all topics. It provides children with a big picture to demonstrate how sciences, art, history, language and geography are interrelated. This...
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The Purple Strip
For those of you who know much about Montessori, you’ll recognize “The Black Strip.” This is an impressionistic activity that is meant to impress kids with the enormity of time on earth. Our version...
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Geologic Time Line Activity
The Montessori teaching albums have an exercise called the “Clock of Eras.” I felt that would not work as well for our family as DD really doesn’t “get” the idea of a clock fully. I didn’t think it...
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Lots of Dino Puzzles
In the past couple of weeks we read lots and lots of books about dinosaurs and have pulled out lots of different puzzles. LD got this for his birthday a couple of years ago and it was just perfect to...
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Dinosaur Fossils Impression Activity
At the beginning of our activity we looked at this real fern fossil (from Pennsylvania). We talked about how ferns have been around for millions of years and fossil records indicate they were around...
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Measuring Dinosaurs Activity
We looked up the length of several well-known dinosaurs, grabbed our plastic models and then went outside to see how long they really were. We chose stegosaurus 30 feet T-Rex 40 feet apatosaurus 90...
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Dinosaur Body Structure Activity — Marshmallows, Straws and Skewers
We came across a wonderful idea here at U.C. Berkley: The Dinosaur Body to learn more about body structure and how dinosaurs had to be perfectly balanced to stand and move. I read the paragraphs...
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Huge Dinosaur Activity! Trash-o-saurus Measures in at 9 feet 9 inches by 4...
We had so much fun with our huge dinosaur project. A teacher on a website I saw somewhere (sorry, I forget where) mentioned having her class make a “trash-o-saurus.” I thought that was a brilliant...
View ArticleMontessori Philosophy and our USA unit study
I’ve been doing some reading and re-reading of Montessori philosophy this summer. I thought I’d share my thoughts about how our studies — specifically our USA unit study — fits in with my...
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Feathered Dinosaurs
This might be of interest to the dinosaur-loving tots (and parents!) out there. This news from last month passed me by until a couple of days ago. Did you hear that a new species of feathered dinosaur...
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Earth Science: Earth’s Geologic Timeline
We spent about a week learning about Earth’s four eons and most recent eras. Today I wanted to share several of the activities we did to go along with this part of our unit. As you may recall, we...
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