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So...where are you with presentations and what do you have coming up next?
I'll post mine soon, but for now I'm just curious what everyone is up to.
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We'll do Epiphany this week. And, then next week (hopefully) I have the Solar Calendar and Liturgical Calendar presentation ready from the 6-9 album.
I'm also doing a couple different things with our metal insets this week....that's the goal anyway. 
And, the girls have been doing the color tablet #1 presentation with the almost-2-year-old. That counts, doesn't it? 
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Of course it counts!!!I wish I could get my olders to do presentations for the youngers!
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I'm doing the Epiphany presentation at our children's Holy Hour Saturday, then the change to ordinary colors later in the month.
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Ok, here are a few I intend to do in January:
Geography: re-present continents. Add extensions such as salt-dough mapping.My goal is for all 3 littles to know their continents, and JBug to know the oceans as well.
Maybe present landforms
Math:
Present adding with golden beads. Begin static, move on to regrouping.
I've ordered the decanomial set from MO so I can do more addition presentations such as the make 10 snake game and so on. I hope it gets here soon.
Present cards and counters, and spindle box to Squirt.
Present hundred board work to JBug.
Language:
First sandpaper letter presentations with Squirt and JackJack.
Keep doing pink level work with JBug.
Science:
Moon phases
seasons
parts of an electrical circuit (JBug only)
parts of an insect
JackJack: add Puffin, Raven, mockingbird, wild turkey, and Coopers hawk to his bird materials. (At age 2 he already knows 22 different birds by sight!He LOVES birds!)Try to get JBug and possibly Squirt caught up to him on bird identification.
That's all I can think of right now, although I am sure there are many more.
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Hmmm...well I've just started planning our presentations for the remainder of the school year - here's what I'm planning so far:
Math
Will be purchasing decanomial box, hundred chain and thousand chain for my 7yo who breezed through addition and subtraction facts with his addition board.
So...more place value presentations
...intro to multiplication and "groups of"
...calculating area and volume using the geometric solids with the 11yo
...extensions with the binomial cube for the 11yo
...I printed Lori's addition/multiplication wheels from her site of free downloads and will use those until the decanomial box comes in
Language
...continue working with the metal insets - these have really improved the handwriting here! 
...Break out the grammar symbols - my 11yo has such a mental hang up with parts of speech. I plan on doing several presentations I found at MTC for use with grammar and grammar symbols
...involve 7yo in those presentations too
Sensorial
...extensive study of color with our color boxes - 3yo to identify primary, 7 and 11yo to identify primary, complementary, and tertiary
...3yo gets more presentations here with the red rods, more scooping and sorting, tweezing, etc
...7yo works with some fine motor presentations esp tweezing smaller and smaller
Geography
...review of continents
...identification of oceans
...review of North American countries
...intro to US map and states
...I really, really, really want to purchase a set of sandpaper landform cards like the ones at Allison's and begin intro to landforms as well as some landform work with clay and water for the spring.
Science
I've purchased extra shelves because my Nature Center overfloweth.  These will allow me to set up a less cluttered science center.
...continue mastery of parts of a flower with 7yo
...move on through botanical series of cards
...begin working on some bird identification by sound with our new bird identiflyers - the kids have already mastered about 12 over the holidays! So, with that kind of momentum we may have to split our botanical studies with one of our favorites - bird watching and bird study
...I'd like to finish the botanical studies and move on to some animal studies with our 3 part cards, but we'll see - reality check!
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I'll have to see what time allows for here. I'd like to spend a good bit of time preparing for Lenten presentations. We'll also be filling in with Mass presentations - ALOT!
I had planned on using the remainder of this week to rotate some materials off the shelves (that are starting to get abused or neglected) and plan what presentations I will start with. I have ideas, but I always feel better when I get it down on paper. I also have a few mid-year purchases to make. I need to finalize what I'd like/need and then see what the budget allows for.
Thanks for starting this Theresa! It provides a little accountability and motivation for me to get started! Plus it always helps to negotiate ideas out on paper first for me!
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Mackfam wrote:
...calculating area and volume using the geometric solids with the 11yo
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We are going to be doing area and volume with the geometric solids next as well.
Just a suggestion: Have you done area with the geometric cabinet shapes yet? I did this with my ds and it was great because the dimensions vary in such a predictable way. It really helped ds to see the relationship between changes in the dimensions (length, diameter, etc) and changes in the area. Now using the geometric solids should help him to see the relationship between area and volume.
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Thanks for starting this Theresa! It provides a little accountability and motivation for me to get started! Plus it always helps to negotiate ideas out on paper first for me!
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That is exactly why I did it. It forces me to get my thoughts together as well!
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I don't have the geometric shapes cabinet.  But that is a really good suggestion, and I do have my set of 3part cards that I laminated. I'll use those as an introduction. My 7yo should even be able to work on some basic measurements as he is really very drawn to patterns in math. That will be good to develop the relational aspect of those shapes first in a 2dimensional plane. Thanks for the suggestion Theresa!
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The cards should work just fine!
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Oh you guys are just so organized. I guess I've got to get my act together too. I can't think past Epiphany right now, but I'll be back
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We did a really fun one today- "Happy Birthday New Year" using the Montessori birthday tradition. I had a lit candle on the middle of the rug and a card for every month of the year placed around it. The kids walked around the candle from month to month eight times, holding a globe and naming the months as they went and stopping on January each time to answer a question (I put several new year/calendar/solemnity of Mary questions in a bowl and they picked a different question each time they came to Jan).
They loved it- we did all the questions twice.
Other than that, we're doing the CGS Epiphany presentation this week and building words with the moveable alphabet.
Next week I hope to introduce the golden beads to ds and continue on with the pink reading series.
Also planning presentations on the continents, fabric boxes, the human body... and planning to make a cool winter collage with an idea "borrowed" from Meg at Montessori by hand: fill a box with homemade playdough and then create a winter scene in it by going outside and collecting pinecones, sticks, etc. The playdough will be our "snow".
We also used Meg's idea of making a night scene: a collage of all white objects on black construction paper. These turned out really neat.
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I am also doing the Epiphany lesson.
Other than that, we are doing tons of picture book reading, and we brought out the brown stair yesterday. I plan on doing some metal inset work tomorrow, if my little guy is cooperative. It was a little too much detail for him last time I tried it and he wasn't interested. (just wanted to scribble)
I've been slackin' throughout December, just trying to get my big kids finished with their school work for Christmas. Time to get back to it! I miss these threads!
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I've been concentrating most of my montessori efforts on my toddler lately. So lots of practical life for him and my 3-year-old. And actually for my older boys too, we have been doing lots of family cleaning projects lately.
I really need to tidy up my learning room (and clean the closet AGAIN) since no one has been touching the shelves lately. I am debating whether my daughter is past the pink tower, brown stair, cylinder blocks and I should pack them away. Or maybe I just need to give some fresh presentations.
I am a montessori slacker!
I finally got all the puzzle maps for Christmas, I mean my kids got them for Christmas, so we'll be working with those. I keep wishing I knew the names of all the countires so I could introduce them more casually as we were working with them.
My almost 6-year-old is working with some pink reading, and my 3-year-old is showing some interest in learning letters and writing so I hope to work with the HWT manipulatives, sound boxes, and sandpaper letter with her. I might also continue with the number boxes I made, we got up to 6 before christmas.
I am hoping to do more with my bead materials, particularly the bead chains.
ETA: I almost forgot, I am also going to do some grammar symbol activities with my 8-year-old and possibly some farm gramamr with the 6-year-old.
I also have the goal of creating a more regular montessori choice time somewhere in our homeschool day, right now I feel like presentations are too haphazard.
I was glad to see this thread, I love hearing what others are up to!
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