My Little Niche in the Corner
Sometimes I feel I am withering my life away at a little corner in a little flat in a tiny Island with no one around, that life will go on perfectly completely without me. I guess that's why cosmic education; which elementary Montessori education is centred upon is important as it links each life with the cycle of life, that each of us plays a part in this world but that there is a whole universe out there humbling us into powerless beings. We are both khalifahs and lowly servants.
Anyway,enough with the babblings; today we continued with the rainforest theme. I read Miss Spider's 'Top O' Big Tree'and used it to connect to the rainforest which is rich in plant growth and insects. I did a language lesson on three shapes of leaves(orbiculate, obcordate and linear) with Sofiyya and introduced parts of the root (3 part cards) to Umayr which I related to the buttress roots of the kapok tree.
Ihsan tried to find the distribution of the rainforest on the world map online and found a good site www.passporttoknowledge/rainforest/main.html. From the main overview of rainforests; Ihsan picked out statistics about the rainforest and wrote them into the factfile that I wrote for him.
From the percentages, he was also required to find the actual areas of rainforest in different continents.It was thus a combination of geography,research,percentage, fraction, multiplication and language as I used the words in the wordsearch game for his spelling, vocabulary and dictation which he insisted on doing today. I do believe that I'm doing this the wrong way though, I believe I'm supposed to touch on biomes in general instead of working from a particular biome to the general idea of biomes.I do really need to go back to reading my Montessori manuals and books.
Anyway,enough with the babblings; today we continued with the rainforest theme. I read Miss Spider's 'Top O' Big Tree'and used it to connect to the rainforest which is rich in plant growth and insects. I did a language lesson on three shapes of leaves(orbiculate, obcordate and linear) with Sofiyya and introduced parts of the root (3 part cards) to Umayr which I related to the buttress roots of the kapok tree.
Ihsan tried to find the distribution of the rainforest on the world map online and found a good site www.passporttoknowledge/rainforest/main.html. From the main overview of rainforests; Ihsan picked out statistics about the rainforest and wrote them into the factfile that I wrote for him.
From the percentages, he was also required to find the actual areas of rainforest in different continents.It was thus a combination of geography,research,percentage, fraction, multiplication and language as I used the words in the wordsearch game for his spelling, vocabulary and dictation which he insisted on doing today. I do believe that I'm doing this the wrong way though, I believe I'm supposed to touch on biomes in general instead of working from a particular biome to the general idea of biomes.I do really need to go back to reading my Montessori manuals and books.
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