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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Our Montessori Activities: Fine-Motor Counting Activities

I introduced a couple of slightly new activities this week. I did leave the spooning cottonballs on the shelf as they still remind me of snow, but they didn't seem interested in it. I replaced the heart picks with red chenille stems for the girls to place in the cheese shaker.



I added a new dimension to this activity by having the girls place pony beads or cheerios on the stems.


I had Tabitha sort 5 different color beads onto the stems, making it a color sorting activity for her.


In addition, each color represented a different number of beads. When she was finished putting them on the stems she got to count them and place them on a number mat I made.



I only went to 5 because I didn't want to overwhelm her. I think it was a little simple for her (She picked them right out of the shaker and put them in the correct spot), so I am going to make a mat representing the numbers 0-10. I didn't allow Amelia to use the beads because I had found her trying to eat them earlier in the week when I was setting up the activity. So she got to use cheerios. No pictures of her putting the cheerios on though.

I also changed the tonging activity again, to go with the theme. I call this the build-a-snowman tonging activity.









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9 comments:

  1. Love the bead activity!! I'll have to work on that with Kaleb this week. :)

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  2. Great ideas. I will have to get some tongs for when my little girl gets a little bigger.

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  3. Cute bead idea and I like the addition of the mat to match for counting. Great work!
    -Jill

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  4. Thank you for the compliments. Amelia does try to use the tongs, but she does end up using her hands.

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  5. I love the bead counting activity! I will have to give that a shot this week :-)

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  6. I really like your bead activity and the fact that you also used a mat to match for this. My little girl really ejoys threading buttons onto chenille stems - great for pattern activities, counting and sorting.

    Using tongs to build a snowman is a cute idea.

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  7. Thanks for commenting on my blog and letting me know about the math activities. We'll definitely try the pony bead one.

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  8. Thanks for visiting my blog :) Now, that I am reading it again, I do remember seeing this when you first published it....but...Ryleigh was not really into counting or numbers yet... Thank you so much for reminding me of it! I know this is definitely an activity that she would enjoy now :)(Also- thanks for the pointer on the left to right! I really appreciate it:))

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  9. fantastic idea, where did you get the bead printable from please :)

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