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We've been through all the chair/sitting presentations.
The kids really enjoyed carrying a chair. However, guiding someone to a chair and exercises on sitting were not so good. Without another adult to be guided to a chair as demonstration, I used a stuffed animal- maybe that was a poor choice since it just got the kids all wound up. Dd calmed down and was very interested in guiding and sitting then, but ds still gets all wound up when I bring up the topic. I guess I will just leave it for now and move on to the next thing.
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Melinda,
Thank you for starting this thread! I meant to but it slipped my mind! I am running a VBS for my homeschool group this week and next week will be on vacation with my husband (and nursing baby) so I probably won't be able to check in with this forum too much. 
I'm sure you'll all manage without me 
Anyway, I presented color mixing to my 5 -year-old. He did great, made green from blue and yellow, purple from red and blue and orange from red and yellow- last year he just mixed all the colors into brown, saying he was a mad scientist making a secret formula.
My 3-year-old wanted to do it to- so I gave her a dropper of yellow and had her fill a teacup. She was frustrated at first- kept banging the dropper, but after I showed her how to squeeze it so air bubbled out (verbally calling her attention to the bubbles with as few words as possible ie "look, bubbles"), she got the hang of filling it and releasing. I think this is a great preperation for doing the color mixing- actually being able to operate the dropper! As well as the fine motor/prep for writing benefit.
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My 4 yo was asking for the foam bath letters (which have been put away) today. Thinking he actually wanted to do something with *letters*, I went for the movable alphabet. It turned out that what he really wanted to do was sort the foam letters into colors so he could pretend they were different armies having a war  . All I succeeded in doing was knocking down a whole bunch of other stuff when I tried to get the movable alphabet out of my closet. 
I have written on my weekly to do list (something new at my house) that I would like to do a pouring presentation and a food prep presentation with him this week, because he has requested both. We'll see how it goes...
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Well we've done a bunch of presentations. I did standing, walking, moving a chair, sitting at a table, walking around a rug/mat, carrying a tray, turning pages in a book, asking for permission to observe another child, and then represented the tongs with the album class suggestion of a sticker on the 2nd row as a clue for where to start this row. Well, that worked like a charm. No more confusion about going top-bottom, left-right. Sometimes the child wants to pick up 2 at a time but otherwise he is working with this regularly. My 4 yo and 6 yo have both been doing this. My 10 yo is fascinated by some of this as well - with his emphasis being on quiet. The 4 yo has been begging me for the baster presentation and I did finally do that one with him today. Well, I'm glad I practiced it first as I was extremely frustrated. My baster, it turns out, had an air leak and never stopped dripping. My dh came to the rescue and put some petroleum type jelly (actually lansinoh since that is all we had available  ) to seal it. It worked perfectly after that. My 4 yo found it very fascinating but he tended to hold it to the side and squeeze after it was in the water. We also had a minor spill so he helped clean up. My 10 yo did this activity twice in a row - no drips. My 4yo did it the first time right handed and the second time left handed. I guess we are a confused bunch as far as handedness goes. He claims his hand got tired.
The walking went the worst - as the older dc thought I was silly and distracted the 4 yo and everyone was bouncing around not paying attention. The 4 yo wants me to do it again with him later by himself. My dc all were imitating me which means they thought I was teaching the goose step . I was exaggerated on the cross patterning - right hand comes out with left foot since most of ours (and I) have trouble with cross patterning. Well, even concentrating, I didn't get it and many of my dc who do have cross patterning thought I was trying to get them to walk with hand and feet from same side going at the same time. Dh came on and demonstrated again for the rest of us trying to figure out how I could end up the other way - didn't it feel awkward. I had to use some verbal instructions to get across what I was trying to do.
I should have demonstrated asking for permission to watch another first - as my 4 yo suddenly got focused with this. After that, anytime I was preparing for a demonstration, he wanted to go across the room, come over and ask for permission to watch - at which point, I gave it and didn't actually start working till he got there to observe. The demonstrations after this one, were the only ones that he actually didn't try to take the materials before I'd finished demonstrating.
He also keeps coming to get me to show me how quietly he can open doors - and he kept trying to place the tray down quietly - and saying, oops, too noisy. He is really going to like this year. I'm not really surprised with him - but with my very soft spoken 6 yo, who just comes in to listen every time I do a presentation. He is working with a lot of the materials. Even my 10 yo is working with these materials and quickly mastering them. My 13 and 15 yo think the whole thing is nutty and they come to watch demonstrations just so they can tease mom later - BUT they are watching the demonstrations. I've told them they have to watch and practice some in order to help me demonstrate to youngers if things get hectic.
I did catch myself, once, interfering with the 4 yo work and he let me know it too. I apologized. The older dc keep trying to help so I had to emphasize the rules with them. I did find that at times I was a bit wordy - still working on that one. Some of it is the dc are used to just plunging in there and doing without attention to detail. Following directions is a big problem in our house so this is all really good practice.
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Keep up to good work on the presentations, ladies!  
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Angel wrote:
| It turned out that what he really wanted to do was sort the foam letters into colors so he could pretend they were different armies having a war . All I succeeded in doing was knocking down a whole bunch of other stuff when I tried to get the movable alphabet out of my closet. |
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| The 4 yo has been begging me for the baster presentation ......... My baster, it turns out, had an air leak and never stopped dripping. My dh came to the rescue and put some petroleum type jelly (actually lansinoh since that is all we had available ) to seal it. |
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I also have a baster story. We did it a few days ago, went well, except they don't always rememeter to pinch BEFORE you put it in the liquid. So, I roasted a turkey today and dd-6 wanted to do some basting. I showed her how, (just for a reminder) and she insisted she could do it. OF COURSE, she zipped it out too fast once and hot basting juice squirted on her. cry, cry, cry.
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| The walking went the worst ........My dc all were imitating me which means they thought I was teaching the goose step ....... Dh came on and demonstrated again for the rest of us |
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Janet - your descriptions of all this is great!
We did the moveable alphabet presentation. The 6 and 5 year old really liked it. dd-6 is really excited that she is reading a lot of the words. dd-3 wanted to do it with them, but then just pouted b/c she doesn't know the letters. She insists on doing everything they do, but then mopes around b/c she can't! 
We did one of the knobbed cylinders this am. They LOVED that thing!
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Well, you guys are all just having too much fun I love hearing about how these all went for everyone. We are going to re-visit our Mass Presentations today, so I'll report back as to how it goes! I'm so excited you're all having as much fun as the kids with this, let's keep sharing!
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Well, the Mass Presentation never happened Running through the sprinklers won out. We'll try for another day...I did however present the Pink Tower to my 2yo and he loved it, was so careful, and I only had to redirect him a couple of times, which is saying alot for him He may be a little young for it, but he wanted to keep doing it over and over and over, it was priceless!! He was extremely fascinated by the tiniest piece and wanted to hold it the whole time, but it was getting in his way to be able to properly grasp the other cubes, so finally I said I would hold the *special piece* until it was time to put it on the top He would have kept going through lunch if I hadn't given him the choice to go play outside (so I could put it away  )! It's so cool to *see* it working!
This morning my 5yo and I had the best morning time to ourselves! We started by reading The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (one of my/our favorites) and then we had cereal together and chatted. Then I suggested he work with the new Sandpaper Letters I just finished making (blog post today, I'll link back) and we worked on about four different sounds as he's already starting to read, but I just wanted to go through the motions with him and help him start getting used to the processes of the presentation/three-period lesson! It was GREAT!!! He loved it and we quickly moved to the Sandpaper Numbers! It was the best morning, I tell you, I LOVE Montessori!
Have a great weekend and please share if you have done any thing else, or maybe just want to share a great mommy moment !!
Blessings!
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Well, we are slowly packing things up and re-organizing, so very few new presentations around here right now.
But a wonderful moment: I've finally been working on painting and sand-covering those globes. My son (3)couldn't stand it anymore, as he worked with the Good Shepherd and the sheep (I should break in here to say that we have a small flat world map in the atrium area with Israel labelled with a BIG arrow pointing to it and he's seen me discuss this with other kids) - he kept asking, "Loo done yet?" "No, honey" "Otay..... Loo done now?" Finally he just came over, picked up the sand and water one, which was still wet, carefully looked at it all over, put his finger above Israel and said, "Dedah live dare!" He then set it down, went to get the Good Shepherd figure, returned and held the Good Shepherd above Isreal (still not touching the wet sand!). Just held it there a few moments, before saying, "He die on da cross. Right dare!" He then set it back down and went to continue working with the Good Shepherd for another 45 minutes or so.
Once I set up the globes to dry and wait for a coat of polyurethane, he set a crucifix in front of the one - it looks like the cosmic cross which he has never even seen the presentation - only the material.
I think I'm satisfied with our current progress
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That is wonderful! I got chills just reading that!
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Topic: Presentations for the week of July 15-21
