Hi Everyone,

Tomorrow starts a new school year. I'm excited to meet all the very cute little ones starting and see our returning children. I hope everyone has a great school year. I hope to have a little more time this year and add more pictures of materials.

Diamira

Valentine's Rhyming lesson:

We have rhyming in the classroom but we've found that some of our older children that can read are still having trouble with rhyming. I purchased the hearts and the basket at the dollar store. I wrote rhyming word and put them in each heart the children had to read the word and put them back in the heart. You can make this lesson with plastic eggs now that spring is coming. They loved opening and closing the hearts. For some children I took the words out and mixed them up and had them find a match that rhmed.

Hi Everyone,

I attended NJ/MAC Conference today in Edison, NJ. It was wonderful to see so many Montessori teachers in one room. The guest speaker was Dr. Dee Joy Coulter. I took a workshop on Money: Using the Montessori Math Framework given by Pamela Zell Rigg. It was great! She uses the math lessons to teach money. Take a look at her site so you can see how she does it. It's easy to make yourself. www.MontessoriRD.com.