I love bringing books to life and setting up small world invitations to play. I also like mixing different subjects, and today, we are bringing my children's old favorite Rudolph Lift-the-Tab book (buy here) to life with a math twist.
We are using a traditional Montessori Math material: The ๐ฏHundred Board (buy here), which consists of a blank board and wooden numbers from 1- 100. The objective is memorization, and an understanding of numbers and their sequence. Also, this material trains the child to work from left to right, top to bottom; while teaching counting and skip counting, number recognition, number sequencing, patterning and much more.
After Adrian assembled The ๐ฏ Board, I offered him Christmas color pom poms and tongs to create and follow a pattern while skipping the numbers by two.
Besides awesome fine motor stimulation the child receives from tonging, this is also a great sequencing activity as the child has to remember the pattern while placing pom poms on the board.
I would say this book is a great addition to your Holiday reading collection for children from two to four years old. Do you have a favorite holiday book?
For more on Rudolph activities, see here ๐ ๐ป Holiday ๐ Reading โจCollection "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer ๐Book" and here "Christmas-inspired Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Sensory Bin."
Also, see here our December activities round-up in a post "๐Christmas Inspired Unit Study."
For more on Montessori ๐ฏ Hundred Board, read here a detailed post, where Adrian (at 3 yo) was working with it.
For Holiday inspirations, see below:
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