Friday, March 4, 2011

Playing with Clamps

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For practical life, I introduced using clamping this week after Mavi failed to use the dropper.  I realized that it would be best to introduce 2 practical life activity a week, and prepare a buffer of 1 activity in case he got bored of the first two.  With this set-up it’s much easier for me to prepare materials and have enough time to look around the house on what we can make use for our Montessori activities.

First I made him transfer the bears from the box to the ice tray.  He did a great job at first, but then the bear was slipper... so oftentimes they would fall out from the clamp.  So I replaced it with pompoms.  This time it worked, but he didn’t finish the rest of the pompoms for he got tired.

I would like to try other mediums for this transfer activity, such as

  • using a tweezer
  • using a cooking clamp
  • using a chopstick

Then for stuffs to be transferred, I’m eyeing...

  • wooden cubes
  • sponge pieces
  • beads of different sizes
  • counters we used in math
  • pebbles
  • foods: cheerios, rock candies, grapes etc

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