by jessicaperkins | Oct 12, 2015 | activity, counting, fall, kidmath, leaf, leaves, mamamayi, MamaMayILearn, math, montessori, preschool, totschool
One to one correspondence. Early counting.We have been using these little Counting Leaves in our Sensory Kits since September but had some colored gemstones out today for another project and decided to do some one-to-one correspondence. I love the Fall colors and how...
by jessicaperkins | Jul 18, 2015 | balance, balls, feature, Friday, learning, Mama May i, mama may it shop, mamamayi, mamamayishop, montessori, play, product, toddler
I made it to Grandma’s house this week to get inventory under control and while we were hanging out [playing] in the new stock room the kids were pulling out products from their bins and playing. And Lincoln (almost 2) found the Balance Balls. At first he was...
by jessicaperkins | Mar 25, 2014 | gardening, homeschool, learning, make a match, mamamayi, montessori, planting, sensory bin, Spring, vegetable, vegetables
Spring has sprung and, although colder outside than I would like, we are feeling pretty spring inside our house right now.Before I went to bed last night I prepared an invitation to “garden” sensory bin for the girls to find in the morning. I used black...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 13, 2012 | Alphabet, Language, letters, montessori, phonetics, preschool, reading, sensory bin, texture, word sounds, words
I am so excited to introduce this little phonics box. It is a work in progress. It’s not so easy to find teeny things to fit in the drawers for each of the letters, but we started our collection. And little people like collections. Buga is excited to search the...
by jessicaperkins | Dec 21, 2011 | activity, Christmas, montessori, prewriting, sort, sorting, tongs, totschool, transferring
Christmas Sorting!Buga used her wooden tongs to sort some Christmasy objected in a simple divided tray. We had bows, ornaments, shaped erasers, and bells. I put all the objects in the middle and she had to separate them into categories.Next time I will build in some...
by jessicaperkins | Jun 15, 2011 | baby, eyes, hand, handmade, homemade, mobile, montessori, natural, natural play, newborn, Toy, visual
I am excited to introduce mobiles to Lil’ on her movement mat (when we finally put the nursery together). For now, I make-shifted a movement mat. I also created my very first mobile, which I am pretty excited about. It is a Rainbow Mobile which I think may be a...
