Yesterday Annabelle’s Montessori homeschool playgroup met for the second time. Here’s a few pictures from our day:
1. Kari sings the welcome song.
2. Max, one of the older siblings who attends a Montessori school, shows us the right way to unroll and roll up our mats.
3. Annabelle scoops beans from a tub into a cup. Sometimes the beans are poured back into the tub. Other times, the beans get tossed around . . .
4. After inside work, Kari takes us into her backyard for bubble time. The Montessori approach emphasizes that children spend as much time as possible playing outside and being with nature.
5. Annabelle’s playmates with the bucket of bubbles.
6. More bubble fun.
7. Feeling the suds.
8. Getting better acquainted with suds. Annabelle learns that soap suds in her eyes doesn’t feel so nice. We practice washing our face and hands in the bathroom after this soap and bubble encounter.
Other activities from our Montessori day included rice pouring, searching for objects in a tub of beans, playing with a toddler peg shape puzzle, looking at pictures of animals and the night sky, doing dot art and snack time (a small glass bowl with apple slices, wheat thins, and grapes for each child).
Annabelle is having fun and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t even know that she’s “working.”
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