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Here is FUN fine motor activity that will keep the little hands busy! Threading is an amazing way to strengthen small muscles of the hands while developing concentration, precision and expressing creativity!
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YOU will NEED:
- pasta (we are using spaghetti)
- penne pasta to thread
- pony beads
- spider 🕷 rings (optional)
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SKILLs ✅:
-🖐🏻 hand 👁 eye coordination
- fine motor control
- dexterity
- bilateral coordination
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AGE 3 Y+ ⚠️Always supervise your child!
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💡 Fine motor movements involve the coordination of small muscles in the hands and fingers. Strong fine motor skills are essential to complete tasks such as writing, cutting, using a fork or spoon, threading beads, moving puzzle pieces, zipping, buttoning, and tying shoe laces. Without well-developed fine motor skills, a child may have difficulty learning to write or performing many of the other critical tasks generally performed by preschooler and kindergarteners .
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TIPS for THREADING: have your child use a thumb and pointer finger to pick up a large pasta and thread it on the spaghetti. As your child gains comfort with this activity, gradually introduce smaller items, such as a pony bead which are more challenging to hold and manipulate. While a dominant hand manipulates the beads, direct a child to use his non-dominant hand to hold the spaghetti steady.After your child is able to easily THREAD the smallest bead, replace the rigid cord with a floppy shoe lace or string. This floppy lace will provide your child with a “moving target” as a child tries to thread the bead with a dominant hand and steady the cord with non-dominant. HAPPY THREADING!!
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Who else can not resist coming home with a bunch of autumn leaves? 😜And most of you, have voted in my Stories that Fall season is your ❤️ favorite! 🙋🏼‍♀️
So, here is another way to CLASSIFY nature finds by COLOR while graphing & COUNTING🍁🍃!
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We have sorted them by SIZE and with a Venn Diagram and even by SHAPE! Classifying is such an important skill that must learned and children naturally want to learn IF we add novelty, hands on invitations and even better 🍁nature! YOU CAN open the valve to the enchanting learning! Your little one is waiting!
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YOU’ll NEED:
- ♻️recycled 📦cardboard
- a 🖊marker
- leaves (ANY!deciduous 🍁or 🍃 green!)
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AGE 2.5 Y+ ⚠️Always supervise your child!
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SKILLs:
- hand 🖐🏻 eye 👁 coordination
- fine motor control & dexterity
- 📍SPACIAL AWARENESS
- sorting and classifying
- language development
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💡 WHY CHARTS are IMPORTANT? A pictograph (also called pictogram) is a chart or graph which uses pictures or symbols to represent data. Pictograms are a great way to introduce children to data handling, for example you can SORT, COUNT or CLASSIFY! Children are VERY 👁 visual and pictograph are easy to draw, understand and interpret. For example, children can simply count the objects to find out how many each class represents.
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ALSO, Pictograms are also often used where it is important to understand something fast. Sight 👁 is faster than reading 📖! So, don’t be afraid to use them!
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Calling all toddlers, preschoolers & kindergartners to sort 🍁🍃LEAVES! We have sorted them by size and by color and now it’s a turn to sort them by SHAPE! Trust me, learning to classify is such an important skill that must be learned!! How? With engaging invitations to learn and play!
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YOU’ll NEED:
- ♻️recycled 📦cardboard
- a 🖊marker
- leaves (ANY! Use deciduous 🍁or 🍃 green!)
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AGE 2Y + ⚠️Always supervise your child!
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SKILLs:
- hand 🖐🏻 eye 👁 coordination
- fine motor control
- dexterity
- 📍SPACIAL AWARENESS
- sorting and classifying
- language development
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💡 WHY SPACIAL AWARENESS is IMPORTANT! Our 👁 visual and 🖐🏻 tactile perception consists of understanding HOW objects are situated in space. Gaining an understanding of the attributes of those objects such as relative size or shape which can be a distinguishing characteristics, is a 🔑 key to mastering this important 💪🏻 skill. Classifying objects into categories allows children to 🧠 mentally and physically organize things in their world. Developmental milestone to learn to CLASSIFY objects emerges at about 18 months when your toddler is using brain 🧠 power to sort fav toys! #earlylearning
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Here is another fun way to get rid of UN-wanted Halloween 🍭 candy🤪! Turn it into a sensory bin🙌🏻 However, since black beans are NOT edible, I would not suggest it for any child who cannot yet distinguish edible vs. not!

YOU’ll NEED:
- FILLERS - we are using black beans, but you can also use dyed rice 🍚- see 📽video tutorial on my feed, or other grains; for small ones who are still mouthing, use cooked dyed pasta 🍝
- TOOLS - children age 2YR + need tools! Although 1 yr can spend hours playing with water/rice with bare hands, older ones would enjoy tools
- PURPOSE - pouring, counting, scooping - I am using a silicon 🎃mold

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SKILLs:
✔️bilateral coordination
✔️hand 🖐🏻 eye 👁 coordination
✔️fine motor control
✔️pouring, transferring and scooping skills which strengthen small muscles of the hands, indirectly preparing the hand for writing ✍🏻
✔️ tonging which is awesome to develop pincer grip!
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AGE 2 - 100 Y + ⚠️Always supervise your child!
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Children until about 5-6 yr have a VERY sensorial relationship with their world - that is they perceive everything through 👌🏻SENSES! And recent research has been supporting multi sensorial stimulation! “Tell me and will I forget. Teach me and I will remember. INVOLVE me and I will learn!” Benjamin Franklin. Trust me, children learn best when they are engaged in what they’re doing! So offer multi sensorial #smallworld invitations to PLAY! Yes! PLAY! “Play is the work of the child!” Little ones are capable of naturally 🧽 absorbing MORE in a few hours than adults in months! Seize the childhood and let them learn through play!
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🦊 FOX 🍁 LEAF 🎭 MASK ⠀ ☑︎ follow @Mo

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📣I have seen so many cute fox 🦊 leaves masks 🎭 in particular Sue @reaching_happy whose gentle homeschooling style I adore and I also saw a cute 🦊🍁🎭ones @the.hidden.way And @kristalii 🥰
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“There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all the life to be found around them, in a real forest. Something emanates from those trees which speaks to the soul, something no book, no museum is capable of giving. [From Childhood to Adolescence. Maria Montessori.]
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Indeed, for children to learn to “understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature” they MUST have contact with it ... [The Secret of Childhood. Maria Montessori.]
HOW? Take them outdoors! Even if for 5 minutes to observe a crawling ladybug or smell damp moss, leaves or wet tree trunks, while walking on a needle-covered path marveling at clouds.
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Remember! “Education is not something which a teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. [The Absorbent Mind. Maria Montessori.]
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We often talk about "kindergarten readiness" but what about "math readiness"? The answer is: start EARLY! Little people are like 🧽 sponges! LITERALLY! I am a strong believer that I would rather be early than late. If the material is introduced too early, a child would simply show no interest and you, as an educator, would just come back to it later. On the other hand, if the material is introduced too late, the sensitive window of opportunity is closed forever and the chance for an effortless assimilation and absorption of information is now gone!
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So, here are the BASIC math strategies you can incorporate, starting at age two and continuing to the kindergarten age. Remember, repetition is the key to mastery!!
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1. a NUMERAL - which is a written symbol we, humans, decided to represent a particular quantity (👎🏻least effective)
2. COUNTERS, also called manipulative, are the actual quantity (👍🏻most effective!)
3. FINGERS work great for visual learners who will benefit by watching you fold fingers on a glove. To make it, we simply filled a surgical glove with 🩸 red hydrogels ~ aka 💉 blood 😜
4. TALLY MARKS help children visualize the numbers 6 through 10 as a group of 5, plus the additional ones.
5. draw a PICTURE.
6. TEN-FRAME helps children build counting and subitizing abilities while expanding spatial awareness. Here, I am using a recycled 🥚 egg carton, having cut two egg- compartments, leaving just ten and rainbow pom poms.
7. NUMBER LINE: start at one and count up. Once the child finds the number on a line, remind your child to go back to number one and count up again.
8. SPELL out the number.
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Is your little one afraid of monsters❓ Well, the best way to deal with fears is to face them! HOW❓Make them! And make them friendly 😜And better yet! Reinforce 1:1 correspondence and the concept of cardinality with craft sticks and googly 👁eyes!
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YOU’LL NEED:
- 🧻 TPR (recycled ♻️😜)
- googly eyes 👀
- craft sticks
- glitter paper (you can paint 🧻TPR too)
- hot glue gun
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HOW👉🏻Invite your child to place the corresponding quantity of craft sticks as the number on a ‘monster’ indicates! Better yet, add a color matching twist! (This step is totally optional but I just had super cute colorful googly eyes😆)!
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💡 According to Common Core Math standards, kindergarteners are expected to know cardinality, quantitive analysis, RATIONAL Counting, 1:1 correspondence, count till 100 and much more!
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HOW 👉🏻teach RATIONAL counting, which is a learned ability to match an object (👀 ) to the corresponding number and recognize👆🏻 that numbers are merely symbols to represent a quantity! Young children often learn “rote counting” without having an understanding of 1 :1😮 they count till 10 just like a heart-learned poem! (That is they memorize the numerical order without really understanding what each quantity mean.) To lean RATIONAL counting, offer them to COUNT aloud each 👁craft sticks as they match to its numeral 🧻Monster!
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Ok! Halloween is coming and you WILL HAVE tons of candy you wish you didn’t 🤪So, here is a fun (and useful to get rid of undesirable 🍬) counting DIY ! We have been re-purposing our stick 🌳 tree!
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SKILLs:
-🖐🏻 hand 👁 eye coordination
-👌🏻fine motor control
- spatial awareness
- 1:1 correspondence
- numeral to quantity association
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AGE: 2.5 yo+
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💡 Rote Counting vs. Rational Counting:
The difference between rote and rational counting is that the first is a process of sequentially memorizing number names and the second is the process of understanding the value of numbers. If a child is only able to recite numbers in order, just like a heart-learned-poem, it by no means indicates the actual mathematical understanding of numbers. It is thus important, that once a child is able to count to 5 or 10, to shift focus from making that number bigger to making sure that a child can reliably count a small number of manipulatives and assign that quantitative sum to a numeral. Trust me, 1:1 correspondence is a much better indication of your child’s mathematical mastery than a long list of memorized numbers. And the best part, you can introduce 1:1 correspondence starting at an early age by modeling through real-life manipulative and hands-on DIYs. Invite your child to TOUCH each object and provide various hands-on invitations to count, by offering beads, buttons, loose items, blocks, Lego pieces, food items, etc. Make sure that experiences is fun and engaging in order to sustain curiosity and develop the love for numbers and math.
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