Epic Childhood - Reggio, Light Table Play, and Light Play: March 2013

Thursday, March 28, 2013

20+ Montessori and Fine Motor Ideas

My Twins really enjoy fun Montessori inspired learning!

Here are some links and previews of many wonderful Montessori inspired activities my twins have participated in!! Montessori can be an amazing way to keep your child busy, teach your child, help your child learn better and easier, help a child with special needs or academic issues to learn, to calm your child, to calm you as a parent, to really help your child to understand many academic and practical life skills, and for occupational therapy.

If you want to learn more about Montessori, go to Living Montessori Now

Be sure to click the descriptive text above each photo to go directly to the post in which it is featured from!

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Counting with plastic ice cubes on the mirror table

Montessori math

Spooning marbles into empty water bottles on trays and marble games

Assembling letters with a letter construction set on the floor tray

Fine motor with transparent counters and tubes left over from hexbug nano's

Several backyard Montessori inspired acvitities

Tactile discovery box activities

Transferring feathers and pom poms with clothespins

A Montessori inspired playdate

corn kernal transfer with a scoop

Several more Montessori inspired backyard activities

Water bead transfer

a few Montessori inspired activities

More Montessori inspired outdoor activities

Montessori and Reggio inspired easy DIY ramp

Monday, March 25, 2013

25 montessori and fine motor ideas

Spooning marbles into empty water bottles on trays and marble games

Assembling letters with a letter construction set on the floor tray

Fine motor with transparent counters and tubes left over from hexbug nano's

Several backyard Montessori inspired acvitities

Tactile discovery box activities

Transferring feathers and pom poms with clothespins

A Montessori inspired playdate

corn kernal transfer with a scoop

Several more Montessori inspired backyard activities

Water bead transfer

a few Montessori inspired activities

More Montessori inspired outdoor activities

Montessori and Reggio inspired easy DIY ramp

Sunday, March 17, 2013

30 Must Follow Moms on Pinterest

Awesome Mom bloggers on Pinterest that you SHOULD be following!!

In no particular order, all equally awesome.....

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Reggio Fridays Linky 3-13-15

Link up with Reggio Fridays for Reggio inspired and light table ideas

Reggio Fridays has been on hiatus for quite a long time, but it is BACK and better than ever now!! We will be doing things a little bit differently though.

Now everyone has two options to participate in the Linky. However there will not be a linky in this blog post. The reason for this is that Pinterest is a better way to promote a blog post. Plus we have had low linky participation in the past. Plus many other bloggers have low linky participation lately as well. Here are the options....

Option 1. Put your links in the comments of this post to have them added to the Reggio Fridays Linky Pinterest board.

Option 2. I will invite anyone who wants to participate in Reggio Fridays to pin their links directly to the Reggio Fridays Linky Pinterest board.

Recap: So for the Reggio Friday Linky, every Friday you would put any of the links you would want in Reggio Fridays link directly into that Pinterest board, or comment them on this post.

If you are invited to the Reggio Fridays Linky Pinterest board, You can post throughout the week and weekend too though.

If you want to pin your links directly to the Reggio Fridays Linky Pinterest board email me with your Pinterest link and email (the one you signed up for Pinterest with) it makes it easier to invite you to the board.

lighttableguide@gmail.com

If you would like to co-host this weekly linky on your blog, please email me. I will send you the code to make the weekly blog post, and put your blog name and link into the post every week! We are open to many more co-hosts.
Co-hosting just means you will schedule a post to post to your blog, every Friday morning. It would contain basically everything in this blog post. I would send you the HTML to just drop into a blog post every week, before Friday.

Our current Hosts/Co-hosts are:

Epic Childhood
http://graham-and-parker.blogspot.com/

Salt Meadow Academy
https://saltmeadowacademy.wordpress.com/

Follow Kristen (Epic Childhood)'s board Reggio Fridays Linky on Pinterest.

http://www.pinterest.com/LightTableGuide/

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Light Table Fun, Learning, and Creativity

Here are a few of the fun and learning activities Graham and Parker have done on the light table lately! Check out all our other amazing light table, natural light, and mirror activities on our Playing with Light and Mirrors Pinterest board! HERE

Where do you get what is in the pics??

Silly putty is made with one bottle of clear elmers school glue, dumped into a bowl, fill the empty bottle of elmers glue half way with liquid starch, dump it into the bowl... knead and mix... refrigerate, knead and mix some more and play!!