3-6 Monte Class Feb Week 3
I decided to do a review of class rules and routines today as I noticed the children were taking things in their own hand. It's only normal, I guess to have to do this between terms.
Administrative matters done, we proceeded with sandpaper globe presentation and Air, Land and Water lesson. I first asked the children what they saw on the way to class today-
" I saw a pigeon in the water."
" Oh where? In a pool?" I asked.
" Yes Bukit Batok pool. It was swimming with me."
"Oh, _______ did you see it too?" I asked another girl who went swimming with her.
"No..." with a confused look on her face.
"I didn't see anything today. But another day I saw an eagle."
" Was it in the sky?"
" Yes. It was flying. The head was white and the body black."
I then introduced the sandpaper globe, pointing out land and water. I had an empty test tube, another half-filled with coloured water and another half-filled with soil to represent air, land and water.
After that, the children sorted air, land and water features under each heading that I got from Montessoriprintshop.
In our review of class rules, I stressed the need for the children to do their shelf work when I'm not teaching them to make the best use of their time there instead of running off to play whatever games they like for long periods of time. Ok, I also asked them why they were sent to my class...
"To learn." said one.
And why they must make the best use of their time...
"Your mummies are all doing their own work and they sent you all the way here to make the best use of your time to learn..." said I.
So today they chose their work... all four chose the same work at first. Using a pipette to transfer water. I do find that children gravitate towards those activities that involved using their hands instead of more academic work when they start.
I introduced material cards to help those who can't decide on what to do. They just pick from the available cards and go to the shelf to pick up what they chose.
For our second lesson, we did an extension of the geometric solids. The children were shown a net of some of the figures and had to match them. When they couldn't do that visually, I taught them to place the solid onto the net and make sure that each side could match a part on the net.
The kids then taught me that it was like gift wrapping. When they could fit the shape nicely, then held onto the wrapped solid and kiss their 'gift'.
I gave each child their own nets printout to outline the faces. Some traced. Some outlined. One drew pictures based on the nets. Ahh, you learn to see from a different perspective from children everyday.
I guessed we did make good use of our time so much today, we didn't have time for playground. Not that that's not important.
Today also had some bonuses. The children had their own storytime with books read by one of the students and they had a hafazan challenge among themsleves. Alhamdulillah.
Administrative matters done, we proceeded with sandpaper globe presentation and Air, Land and Water lesson. I first asked the children what they saw on the way to class today-
" I saw a pigeon in the water."
" Oh where? In a pool?" I asked.
" Yes Bukit Batok pool. It was swimming with me."
"Oh, _______ did you see it too?" I asked another girl who went swimming with her.
"No..." with a confused look on her face.
"I didn't see anything today. But another day I saw an eagle."
" Was it in the sky?"
" Yes. It was flying. The head was white and the body black."
I then introduced the sandpaper globe, pointing out land and water. I had an empty test tube, another half-filled with coloured water and another half-filled with soil to represent air, land and water.
After that, the children sorted air, land and water features under each heading that I got from Montessoriprintshop.
In our review of class rules, I stressed the need for the children to do their shelf work when I'm not teaching them to make the best use of their time there instead of running off to play whatever games they like for long periods of time. Ok, I also asked them why they were sent to my class...
"To learn." said one.
And why they must make the best use of their time...
"Your mummies are all doing their own work and they sent you all the way here to make the best use of your time to learn..." said I.
So today they chose their work... all four chose the same work at first. Using a pipette to transfer water. I do find that children gravitate towards those activities that involved using their hands instead of more academic work when they start.
I introduced material cards to help those who can't decide on what to do. They just pick from the available cards and go to the shelf to pick up what they chose.
For our second lesson, we did an extension of the geometric solids. The children were shown a net of some of the figures and had to match them. When they couldn't do that visually, I taught them to place the solid onto the net and make sure that each side could match a part on the net.
The kids then taught me that it was like gift wrapping. When they could fit the shape nicely, then held onto the wrapped solid and kiss their 'gift'.
I gave each child their own nets printout to outline the faces. Some traced. Some outlined. One drew pictures based on the nets. Ahh, you learn to see from a different perspective from children everyday.
I guessed we did make good use of our time so much today, we didn't have time for playground. Not that that's not important.
Today also had some bonuses. The children had their own storytime with books read by one of the students and they had a hafazan challenge among themsleves. Alhamdulillah.
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