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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Montessori-Inspired Medical Worker Activities Using Free Printables

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now

Community helpers make a great theme at the beginning of the school year. This year, medical workers are even more important than usual. So I have a new unit with free medical worker printables and Montessori-inspired medical worker activities! You'll also find a medical worker themed newsletter subscriber freebie at LivingMontessoriNow.com!

Montessori-Inspired Medical Worker Activities Using Free Printables

You'll find many activities for preschoolers through first graders throughout the year along with presentation ideas in my previous posts at PreK + K Sharing. You'll also find ideas for using free printables to create activity trays here: How to Use Printables to Create Montessori-Inspired Activities.

At Living Montessori Now, I have a post with resource links of Free Printables for Montessori Homeschools and Preschools.

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you).

Montessori Shelves with Medical Worker Themed Activities

You’ll find Montessori-inspired medical worker numbers, letters, and and more (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber) Go to my Free Medical Worker Printables and Montessori-Inspired Medical Worker Activities post at Living Montessori Now for the free printables and activity ideas you see on the shelf and collage above!

Free Montessori-Inspired Medical Worker Pack

Montessori-Inspired Medical Worker Pack for DIY Cards and Counters, Number or Letter Matching, Number or Letter Basket, Bead Bar Work, Hands-on Math Operations, Number or Letter Salt/Sand Writing Tray, Letter Tracing, DIY Movable Alphabet, and Creative Writing (subscriber freebie, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password – or check your inbox if you’re already a subscriber).

More Montessori-Inspired Community Helper Activities

More Montessori-Inspired Anatomy Activities

If you'd like ideas for calendar-based themes throughout August, see August Themed Activities for Kids .

Be sure to go to my Free Medical Worker Printables and Montessori-Inspired Medical Worker Activities post at Living Montessori Now for lots of free printables and activity ideas!

I hope you find these helpful! :)

Deb Chitwood is a certified Montessori teacher with a master’s degree in Early Childhood Studies from Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England. Deb taught in Montessori schools in Iowa and Arizona before becoming owner/director/teacher of her own Montessori school in South Dakota. Later, she homeschooled her two children through high school. Deb is now a Montessori writer who lives in San Diego with her husband of 45 years (and lives in the city where her kids, kids-in-law, and grandkids live). She blogs at Living Montessori Now.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Montessori-Inspired Winter Activities Using Free Printables

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now

Even though I live in San Diego California, I still love preparing hands-on winter activities and love a winter unit. Today, I have lots of Montessori-inspired winter activities along with a new winter pack (subscriber freebie at LivingMontessoriNow.com )!

Montessori Shelves with Winter Themed Activities

You’ll find Montessori-inspired winter numbers, letters, and and more (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber)

Go to my Free Winter Printables and Montessori-Inspired Winter Activities post at Living Montessori Now for the free printables and activity ideas you see on the collage and shelf above!

Free Montessori-Inspired Winter Pack

Montessori-Inspired Winter Pack for DIY Cards and Counters, Number or Letter Matching, Number or Letter Basket, Bead Bar Work, Hands-on Math Operations, Number or Letter Salt/Sand Writing Tray, Letter Tracing, DIY Movable Alphabet, and Creative Writing (subscriber freebie, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password – or check your inbox if you’re already a subscriber).

More Winter Resources, Including Many Free Printables

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Be sure to go to my Free Winter Printables and Montessori-Inspired Winter Activities post at Living Montessori Now for lots of free printables and activity ideas!

I hope your new year is off to a wonderful start! :)

Deb Chitwood is a certified Montessori teacher with a master’s degree in Early Childhood Studies from Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England. Deb taught in Montessori schools in Iowa and Arizona before becoming owner/director/teacher of her own Montessori school in South Dakota. Later, she homeschooled her two children through high school. Deb is now a Montessori writer who lives in San Diego with her husband of 43 years (and lives in the city where her kids, kids-in-law, and grandkids live). She blogs at Living Montessori Now.

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Space Themed Back To School Bulletin Boards....and a FREEBIE!

Hi! I'm Ayn and I am a Ga. Pre-K teacher, serving 4 and 5 year olds in an inclusive setting. I share my classroom adventures on my blog, little illuminations.

I had several ideas for this month's post and thought I knew exactly what I was going to share here. Then, I saw these cute space themed bulletin boards in a co-workers classroom. A day or two later, Carolyn shared her post "Oh, My Stars!" and I knew that I had to piggyback on her post and share these cute back to school bulletin boards with you!

I love it when I walk into a classroom and see welcoming bulletin boards that are different than what everyone else is doing. Star Wars has definitely been a hit this year and the kids are over the moon with all things Star Wars. I love that the teachers incorporated that interest into their classroom decor!

Meet The Teachers bulletin board

Artwork bulletin board

Birthday bulletin board

Cubby Name Tags

General boards for class work/art

FREEBIE!!!!
I thought I would share a little math Roll and Cover grid game I created a while back. I've uploaded it to my TeachersPayTeachers store as a freebie, so it can be downloaded and used right away!

Hope your school year gets off to a GREAT start and May The Force Be With YOU!!!

Stop by and visit me anytime at littleilluminations.blogspot.com or visit the little illuminations fanpage on facebook! And be sure to check out PreK+K Sharing EEE!

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Accomplishment! Getting Things DONE! Delayed Gratification!

THRILLED! THRILLED! THRILLED!

We've all made it through September. It's in the book!

All of the effort of launching the new school year is now behind you.

EXHALE!

You did it!!

What a sense of accomplishment to have made it through the most energy intensive days and weeks of launching the new school year: the never-ending 'to-do' list of setting up your room, meeting your new students & their families, and getting off to a whole new adventure!

It's OCTOBER!

YOU MADE IT!

Don't you just LUV having a map?

Doesn't having a map of your plans secure your arrival?

Are you a list maker?

Don't you long for a map to get you where you want to go?

I saw this 'music-mind-map' in the hallway of Concordia College in Chicago YEARS ago!

I was immediately both fascinated and transfixed.

What a brilliant shorthand *M*A*P* of the uses and benefits of music.

LUV me a MUSIC-MAP!

Truth be told: I took that picture years ago, blogged about it and then 'forgot' about both this image and my fascination with it. Then one day this summer I happened upon 'my' photo while investigating my own Pinterest feed. {I now have 165,000 followers on Pinterest!} Someone had repinned the image -- all of these years later. I was fascinated all over again. It was like a homecoming party. Luv'd it then! LUV it NOW!

What with it being summer at the time and it being my season of rejuvenation, a few extra light bulbs lit! What if I could put my 18.3 years of experience as a 'music-lady' onto one piece of paper? What if I could expand and expound upon the simplicity of the original map with my own spin-on-it? What if? So I got out a drawing board and began!

MUSIC is the heart of it all: the very center.

Next?

Let's take a look at singing within music.

I got out my colored pencils and had myself a ball.

SINGING is indeed within music.

I blogged about it more extensively last month on my personal blog as I finally made progress and got it {my mind map} done!

I think of the singing benefits as falling into two camps:

Lyrics = Language [Reading]

The Beat = Patterns [Math]

In my mind-map all things 'language' are above the center point.

All things beat/math are below. The bedrock. The foundation.

Even after I had my map finished, it took a while to get into pdf format.

Then it took another step to get the pdf uploaded as a FREEBIE at our EARLY EDUCATION EMPORIUM!

Patience, grasshopper.

BANG THE DRUM! Mission accomplished!

Cross it off the list!

It is *NOW* available for your download!

Want to see a dozen bulletin board type music ideas?

Go back to my blog for those!

While I was attempting to get this accomplished,

I searched my own blog's archive for some additional, earlier music support articles.

Here's a dozen directions from my heart to yours.

***This article would be especially helpful if you feel you're out of your element when it comes to music and children. We're talkin' basics!

Here's a different dozen.

This time focused on "Music as Motivator."

photo of: MUSIC as Motivator: Debbie's Dozen Directions, top 12 suggestions from Debbie Clement

This next one is no doubt one of my widest-researched articles:

"The importance of rhyme."

If you are feeling like there's just not enough time in the day for 'sing-ing'

then you need to read this article for reinforcement to combat the "Wolf at the Door"

and get back to some basics!

photo of: Top 10+ Reasons to PLAY with Rhyme: KBN Top 10 Series at RainbowsWithinReach

Speaking of delayed gratification.....

Last winter began a whole new era of fun for me. We had a day of video filming in a professional studio on behalf of Zaner-Bloser, the handwriting company in Columbus, OH. Green screen fun with two of my WonderPeeps [grand-children] plus a few more!

How I wanted to click my heels and have the videos finished......

PATIENCE!

THE DAY HAS ARRIVED!

THE VIDEOS ARE FINISHED!

THEY ARE UPloaded over to YouTUBE!

THEY ARE FREE!!!!

YOU WILL LIKE THEM!

*Here's a glimpse and an image you could pin for me!

We shot two videos.

The first in the set is called, "SKYWRITING" and is an upbeat,

blast-off to using our imagination, our visualization as a tool for handwriting success.

It features a rocket ship blasting off and an octopus.

It would be great for a 'brain break' and getting some oxygen.

The second video is "Top to Bottom" and I predict will be your favorite.

You can use it EVERY day this month!

The more you use it the more infectious the learning becomes!

It is a marching, getting faster, 'print directionality' master piece if I do say so myself.

Plus there's a duck and a bear.

And moi and my WonderPeeps!

What more could you ask for?

Here's the link to Zaner-Bloser and on to the videos!

Did I mention that they're FREE FREE FREE!!!!

HURRY HURRY HURRY!

In honor of all of this progress on my "To Do" list, I have a big celebration going on right now,

where there will be a lucky winner of some amazing seasonal, downloadable goodies from some of my favorite bloggers.

You still have three more days to get entered to win!

Follow this link for those specifics!

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Quick and easy gifts and a FREEBIE

Christmas is quickly approaching! Do you have all of your parent gifts done? Do you have them wrapped? Do you have student gifts ready?? So much to do with the time quickly passing! Only EIGHT, I repeat, EIGHT days until Christmas! Can you believe it?? But that means only 3 more days until break for me…how about you? Are you already on your Christmas break?

If you are panicking about what to do for parent gifts this year here are a couple quick and easy ideas.

Handprint Mittens:

Materials:

· mitten cutout or pattern

· Small heart pattern or cut out

· White paint

· Paintbrush

· Cold hands, warm heart print out

· Hole punch

· Pipe cleaners

· Student pictures

· Markers

Directions:

· Students cut out the mittens

· Students Write: Love, Student 2013 on the back of the mitten

· Teacher paints their hands and students place them in the mitten.

· While paint is drying, cut out hearts and cold hands, warm heart sayings.

· Glue heart in center of hand and saying down by the fingers.

· Glue the child’s photo in center of the heart.

· Laminate (optional)

· Paper punch to of mitten and ring a pipe cleaner through the hole.

Easy as 1 – 2 – 3~

Tissue Paper Wreaths:

Materials:

· Student pictures

· Small white paper plate (or white circle cut outs)

· Small red circle cut outs (for center of the wreath)

· Red and green tissue paper cut in small squares/rectangles

· Glue

· Pencils

· Paper Punch

· Pipe cleaners

· Scratch paper

Directions:

· Students glue the little red circle in the center of the white paper plate/circle

· Students take scratch paper and put a big glob of glue on it.

· They take their pencils, wrap a piece of tissue paper around the eraser end of the pencil and dip it in the glue and glue it around the edge of the white circle. Repeat this step until all of the white is filled in with tissue paper interspersing a few red pieces of tissue paper (holly berries)

· Glue student picture in the center

Easy as 1 -2 -3

What do you get your students for Christmas?? I used to spend money on books and all kinds of goodies but a few years ago I realized that a pad of paper and a pen was a HUGE HIT! So, that is what I do, I head to the dollar store and find cute pads of paper and fun gel pens. The kids get so excited because they now have their OWN pad of paper to keep notes on.

Also, do you have your students do anything over break?? For those of you who didn't know, I like to have my students continue to practice certain skills so I send home a Holiday Challenge packet. It is filled with simple activities for them to do at home, to keep their brains busy. The students who return it after break get a special prize...usually a trip to my treasure box.

Click here for a copy of the packet!

Enjoy and I hope you have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!! And a HAPPY and SAFE NEW YEAR!

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