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5 Handwriting Practice Activities That Are Engaging and Fun

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Montessori handwriting practice lessons We’re switching gears and going into the Montessori handwriting practice sequence. My previous blog post discussed writing phrases with the hands-on Montessori moveable alphabet. There are a few additional lessons with the moveable alphabet I haven’t covered yet, but right around this time, your child may also start to express interest …

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Word Building and Writing Phrases: 1 Important New Lesson

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Montessori word building: writing phrases with the moveable alphabet At this point, your child has been practicing quite a bit with word building, such as writing word families with the Montessori moveable alphabet.  You can move on to writing phrases when you have observed that she is solid with writing several words, which is really …

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Fascinating Word Families: 6 Essential Phases For Reading

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Writing word families with the Montessori moveable alphabet In my previous blog post, I talk about the first time making words with the moveable alphabet. Once your child feels comfortable handling letters and making words, we move on to writing word families.  Writing words in a word family is where all of the magic begins! …

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First Time Making Words With The Moveable Alphabet: 4 Cool Ideas

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Making Words with the Montessori Moveable Alphabet In my previous blog post, Writing And Reading: 6 Movable Alphabet Games You’ll Love, the first lesson is making words. It is exciting because it is your child’s first time writing words with the moveable alphabet!   It is interesting to note that writing comes before reading, according to the …

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Writing and Reading: 6 Movable Alphabet Games You’ll Love

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Montessori moveable alphabet: exploring with writing and reading We explored letter and sound activities in the previous sequence, including I-Spy for phonemic awareness and sandpaper letters. Now it’s time for your child to move on to writing and reading!  We first start with writing with the Montessori material, the moveable alphabet. Your child builds words …

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Simple Letter Recognition: 4 Engaging Moveable Alphabet Ideas

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Transition to the moveable alphabet: letter recognition After your child has spent quite a bit of time with the sandpaper letters with objects and completed several pages of her letter sound book, she can try letter recognition activities with the moveable alphabet. Transitioning to this iconic Montessori writing material is an exciting and significant step. Your …

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DIY Letter Sound Book: 1 Brilliant Idea To Keep Track

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Montessori Letter Sound Book: keep track of sounds your child learned In my previous blog post, Easy and Fun Beginning Sounds Game (Letter Object Matching), I share the sandpaper letter and object lesson with you. If your child loves playing this fun matching game, you’ll love creating a DIY letter sound book with your child! Creating …

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Easy and Fun Beginning Sounds Game (Letter Object Matching)

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Montessori Sandpaper Letters with Objects to explore beginning sounds In my previous blog post, Montessori Sandpaper Letters: 3 Easy Ideas To DIY At Home, I talk about associating sounds and symbols in this sensory, hands-on phonics activity.  As your child explores the sandpaper letter lesson and learns the sounds that go with them, you can explore …

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Montessori Sandpaper Letters: 3 Easy Ideas To DIY At Home

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Sensory phonics activity with the Montessori Sandpaper Letters In my previous blog post, How To Increase Phonemic Awareness With These 4 Sound Games, I talk about the I-Spy Games. Once your child has explored quite a bit with these sound games, it’s time to move on to the sandpaper letters; associating the sounds with the symbols.  …

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How To Increase Phonemic Awareness With These 4 Sound Games

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The Montessori I-Spy Game for Phonemic Awareness “I-Spy with my little eye, something in Annie’s hands that begins with the sound /n/ – net!” In my previous blog post, Essential Guide To 4 Fun Letter And Sound Activities, the first lesson is I-Spy, a phonemic awareness activity.  Studies have shown that phonemic awareness helps prepare …

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Essential Guide To 4 Fun Letter And Sound Activities

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Montessori Language: exploration of letter and sound In the previous Montessori sequence, we talked about Oral Language with 11 key lessons, such as storytelling, classifying, matching, and rhyming.  Now we’re ready to move on to the following sequence in the Montessori language curriculum: Exploration of Letter and Sound. By this time, your child is ready …

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Sequence Story: A Great Visual Activity for Comprehension

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Montessori Sequence Story Cards Retelling a story in order is a natural progression in communication for children. Their vocabulary development begins with simple words like “dog” and “cat.” Later, it moves to action phrases or sentences, such as “the dog is sitting on the grass.” But, it seems like a new world opens up when …

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1 Important Rhyming Activity To Prepare For Phonemic Awareness

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Montessori Rhyming Activity It is incredible how rhyming words can help us to remember things. Even grown-ups use silly phrases like “righty tighty, lefty loosey” to figure out how to remove a stubborn tightened screw. Rhymes make it easier for us to remember things because the sound at the end of the line sounds the …

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You’ll Love This Vocabulary Activity (Montessori 3-Part Cards)

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Montessori 3-Part Cards: a vocabulary activity for enrichment As parents, we read books to our children every day as much as we can. We recognize the importance of reading books to enrich vocabulary.  Additionally, we can have fantastic conversations and turn them into a fun vocabulary activity to explore topics that interest our children.  My …

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Things That Go Together: 1 Easy Brain Game To Boost Cognition

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Montessori Go-Togethers: match things that go together “Why?”….such a simple question with profound depth baffled even the world’s greatest thinkers. But, that little one-syllable word (which can sometimes be irritating) is such an important word for your child’s cognitive development. The next lesson in the language sequence is another matching activity. Matching things that go …

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Essential Guide To Picture Matching Plus 4 Games to Boost Memory

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Montessori picture-to-picture matching cards I thought I’d surprise my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Annie, with a set of dog matching cards for picture matching, our next Montessori activity in the oral language sequence. Annie loves dogs so much. Whenever we go to the playground or go for a walk, and we see a dog, she is so excited to …

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How To Increase Your Child’s Vocabulary: The 3 Period Lesson

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The Montessori 3 Period Lesson for Vocabulary Development “Can you put the yellow warbler on my nose?” I said to Annie as we did the 3-period lesson with backyard birds.  She thought that was so silly, and we had so much fun while learning the new vocabulary word, yellow warbler! The three-period lesson in Montessori …

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Fun Object-To-Picture Matching Activities (4 Simple Ideas)

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Montessori object-to-picture matching activities Last spring and summer, my daughter, Annie, loved to see the flowers outside. She enjoyed helping us to water them every day and watch them grow. Now that it’s spring again, her eyes light up when she sees flowers. Annie is three-and-a-half now, and we have been attending a gardening class …

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Increase Your Child’s Visual Discrimination Skills (Object Matching)

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Montessori object-to-object matching for visual discrimination “This is a penny, this is a quarter, this is a dime, and this is a nickel.”  Being able to tell the difference between these coins just by looking at them is an example of visual discrimination. My three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Annie, recently has expressed interest in exploring with her …

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1 Playful Pre-Reading Activity To Try Today (Classify Objects)

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A beginning pre-reading activity My three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Annie has been so excited about the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Lately, she wants me to read it to her each day, and when I hand her the book, she reads it back to me in her own words.  I thought it would be a …

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