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Milk Cap Numbers & Animal Counting Worksheets

Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: Someone commented on my Milk Cap Letter page and asked for me to make a Milk Cap Number template.  I made up the Milk Cap Numbers, but then struggled with how I would use them until I came up with the idea for the worksheets listed below.

Materials:

Several milk caps.
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Spreading Egg Salad with a Knife

Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: I know that spreading something with a knife is a common Montessori activity, but I am not sure where I first read about it.

Material:

Egg salad, cream cheese, jelly or any other food item that spreads easily.
A small bowl to contain the spreadable item.
Several crackers.
A small plate for the crackers.
Toddler [...]

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Pony Beads and Pipe Cleaners

Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: I read about this great idea for a Salt Shaker Scuplture at the very informative My Montessori Journey.

Material:

Pony beads contained in a bowl or basket.
5 or 6 pipe cleaners.
An empty spice jars (shaker jar A) or a salt shaker.
Tray (optional, but useful to contain the pony beads your [...]

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Winners: Pegs & Peg Boards

Congratulations to the winners of the Pegs & Peg Boards Giveaway. The winners were:

Comment # 14 – Sarah from The Ramblings and Adventures of a SAHM

and

Comment # 22 – Jodi from Granola Mom 4 God

Sarah and Jodi have until Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 11:59pm to email me (totschool @ shannons. org) with their [...]

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Pegs and Pegboards

Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: I can’t remember where I saw these first, but I ordered some from the Oriental Trading Company several months ago.

Material:

Pegs and a Peg Board (FYI: I am currently running a giveaway for some of our extra ones here.)

Observations: I tried to show these to Sweet Pea several months [...]

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CLOSED: Pegs & Peg Boards

This Giveaway is now CLOSED.

I ordered some pegs and peg boards from the Oriental Trading Company and received  more than we will ever use.  Instead of letting the extras sit in a box in our basement, I am giving away 2 of the sets.  Each set contains 1 peg board and 30 randomly colored pegs.

To [...]

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Thank You Notes

Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: I started doing this a while ago so that Sweet Pea could be involved in writing thank you notes for her gifts.  After Christmas this year, we had several thank you notes to write.

Material:

Blank note cards and envelopes.  (I like these from Target because they are so cheap – [...]

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