At present we dive into a few of my favorite actions for 2.5 to three yr olds. Children of this age are nonetheless sensorial learners so make them hands-on, geared toward refining and strengthening their grasp, their elevated language potential, self expression (arts and crafts), difficult their gross motor motion, and sensible life actions can get longer with extra steps as focus builds.
1. A extra advanced layered puzzle – this one is by Chelona (and appears tougher to seek out today). I wish to scaffold this with the kid. I would assist by simply giving them the items for the underside layer to begin with, then the center layer, then the highest layer.
2. Actions with smaller items – this board by Haba has practically 100 items and the items are small (round 1.5 cm tall by 0.5cm). This gives a possibility for the kid to refine and management their pincer they usually have rising focus to finish with extra items. They will additionally type by color if they’ve curiosity.
3. Wedgits – this isn’t formally a Montessori materials. Nonetheless, my youngsters used this time and again and once I added it to my classroom, it has been in fixed use since. They like to grade the sizes of the items and older youngsters get pleasure from constructing totally different fashions. I made a e book the place they will copy the designs if they want tougher designs. I’ve made a PDF of the designs here so that you can use.
4. Hammering shapes into corkboard – that is a lot enjoyable and is a good problem for each wonderful motor (placing the nail within the small gap) and hammering the nail into the corkboard. The items go into the blue field and the nails into the small jam jar to maintain every part on the prepared. This set was bought from Flying Tiger however there are numerous with geometric shapers too that are additionally nice.
5. Stitching – I’ve written about my love of and the steps for stitching with toddlers right here. Nice once more for wonderful motor management and two fingers working collectively. The needle I exploit is blunt (a darning needle) and I’ve a needle case to maintain issues secure.
6. Prick work – a felt underlay, a pointy prick pen and a few thick paper with a easy design is nice for growing their pencil grip, studying to observe the road, and takes a LOT of focus to make it the entire method across the form. For extra superior, they will hold pricking alongside the road till the form could be eliminated.
Bonus activity – stereognostic bags
You may see the baggage hanging to the fitting of the shelf. They’re designed with small slits within the sides so you place solely your hand in however can’t peek in to see, the concept being the kid is studying to really feel round objects with out wanting so as to establish them – their stereognostic sense. We use this sense on a regular basis to really feel for our keys in our bag and many others. This begins to develop round 2.5 years of age. You may put in random objects (search for issues which are simple to establish with out wanting), paired objects, or objects round a theme. As I didn’t take photographs this time of what’s inside, I’ll you should definitely cowl these in additional element one other time.
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