More Montessori

Well my assessment that Tabitha didn't know she could get the spooning off the shelf was inaccurate. I guess she just doesn't want to do it. Amelia still enjoys being given the spooning to do, though she still prefers to use her hands/fingers. And she will go over to the shelf and play in it. Trying to get her to leave it alone will take a bit of work on my part I am afraid. But I want to be able to leave the work down and get them used to it being there, so I will continue to work on it. Anyway, this morning Tabitha went right over to the second exercise I introduced to her and asked to use it. And this was before breakfast! I demonstrated sorting to her yesterday. For a tray this time I used the top of an 18 count egg container. I used a half of a dozen count egg carton for her to sort into then put 4 each of 6 different color pompoms in a bowl.

She did the sorting exercise 3 times right after I showed it to her. The one time she put one purple pompom in one hole and another purple one in a different hole. When she got to the pink she realized she had no holes left. She actually took the green pompom out of its hole and put the pink in there. Then she realized she had no place to put the green. After looking some more she got it right.

While Tabitha worked on sorting this morning Amelia used the spooning again.

I was so glad today was Thursday! The thrift shop is open Thurs-Sat and the best time to go is, of course, Thursday before all the good deals disappear. And the lady who works on Saturday tends to over charge so we try to avoid going on Saturday. So, I spent $2.25 on a nice assortment of trays for our Montessori work:

Now to decide what to put where. Cause I know the shoe box lids and egg carton lid do not really qualify as beautiful and appealing, which are words Barbara Curtis used in her book to describe the materials that should be used in Montessori exercises to draw the child to them.