All About Montessori

[buds]

SAHM_TAN:

buds,


Could you share the practical life n sensorial materials with me too?

Thanks

Ok, i scour where i bookmarked it hor..

Too many gadgets. :slapshead:

[buds]

buds:

laughingcat:

Hey buds,


Remember me!

Yes, of course i remember you.
Not many laughing cats around you know..

laughingcat:

Just want to drop a note to you that my DS1 has completed all his mulitplication table of 2-6, 10 & 11! :rahrah:

Wow! Yeah! :rahrah:

He's not even P1 yet if i recall correctly.. :salute:
Mummy onz mah, sure can wan.

Which of the suggestions worked?
You can use similar way for the mental addition as well.

laughingcat:

We were all so delighted and in fact caught us surprised that he is able to regurgitate the answer without intense memory at all. Tonight the whole family celebrated his achievement with swenson ice-cream. :please:

Err.. since i helped too.. i should get Swensens ice-cream treat too bah. Right? :please:

Somebody pretend didn't hear my ice cream reward.. http://www.smiley-faces.org

[daddy2007]

sean wife:

Can share the tips to encourage mental addition/subtraction and committing simple addition/subtraction facts to memory?

I used this method. Set the questions and let the child pick the respective blue & red blocks to get/count the answers. Then write the answer beside the question.

After sometime, the answer will naturally \"burned\" into their memory

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[kikapo]

Hi Bud,


Impressive!! At 10mths already building up a vocab bank of baby words. Can share the activities that you go through? Can share the montessori lobang with me too?

Thanks!

[phtthp]

hi daddy2007,


appreciate your sharing, is great !
from Concrete to Abstract, to Mental.

Thank you so much, you had taught me how to teach my child. :rahrah:

[daddy2007]

phtthp:

Thank you so much, you had taught me how to teach my child. :rahrah:

No problem. I have to tweak the usage such that it will keep my child interested. While I execute this, I have to \"setup\" as a classroom with some of the soft toys involved. Then my child thought is a game and play together which indirectly exposure the child with all these addition/subtraction concept.

So all will depend on individual child liking

[buds]

SAHM_TAN:

buds,


Could you share the practical life n sensorial materials with me too?

Thanks

Practical life no need to purchase from any source. Cheaper to do up a few materials at a time for baby at intervals. You may already have the household items you can use at home. Only thing is try to have a designated color coded tray for every similar activity you're introducing. For example, for 18mths-2.5yrs old... there's a few you can do simultaneously and the progression should ideally be from easy to difficult.

(These activities are great for pincer-grip. Read : Useful for self feeding and future preparation for writing/holding a pencil)

Scooping Exercise
1. Scooping big red beans from one bowl to another
2. Scooping big red beans from one bowl to two bowls

Pegging Exercise
1. Pegging round a tray/low basket with big pegs
2. Pegging round a tray/low basket with small pegs

*pegs can be plastic or wooden*

Sorting Exercise
1. Sorting 3 different coloured pebbles into separate dishes with a tong
2. Sorting 3 different coloured ping pong balls into separate dishes with a soup spoon

For older kids can use tweezers to sort stamps.

The sensorial lobang i PM you now.

[buds]

Trying to reply PMs today..


So far have managed to reply these few..
> Piggy_mummy
> Jean_mummy

[buds]

phtthp:

does montessori Maths teach kids mental Maths, like the qn posed by sean wife ? i not sure.

NO.

phtthp:

thus appreciate if anyone may kindly share with us how to answer sean's wife qn on mental calculation part how to speed up, using montessori Maths approach.

Accelerated learning experiences within sensitive periods does not equate to a child learning \"speed-math\" or whatever it is parents term it these days.

Montessori Math prides in concrete foundation, hands-on experiences, working from concrete to abstract meaning children don't just see Math as only numbers but instead they get to work with real concrete materials they can see, feel and understand before proceeding to recording level.

There's no shortcut. Mental math activities are extras that teachers provide on top of the traditional Montessori lessons (not a given and up to individual teachers.. like me. ) There is however accelerated learning, as in there are children who grasp concepts really fast concretely and can move on faster to complete the curriculum and with the gradual heightened frequency working on the sums and materials simultaneously, they gain the mental capacity to calculate faster and more accurately.

Cheating by shortcut just to be ahead or be faster may end up having the child being careless and not gaining the ability to check back their work and the lapse can pose detrimental effects moving forward.

It's not the race to the finish that counts since the learning journey is a continuous marathon. It's the embedded foundation and concrete concept that Montessori advocates. The understanding will come naturally that children have little trouble in understanding and coping with primary school math levels at least up till P2/P3... without much coaching.

It's imperative that parents understand the Montessori Methodology is more than just learning just Math or Phonics or Grammar... but it IS the learning for life that our Montessorian children get. A holistic method of education.

If parents only seek to use the academic portions of the curriculum, a Montessori enrichment programme can be an option for a so called concise version of what our children in daily programmes learn. This doesn't mean that all children can grasp or adapt to the lessons well enough to be steady pom pi pi on their own upon completion as they lack the practice. After all they say only practice makes perfect. So in short to have more retained mentally is precisely via lots of practice. \"What goes thru the hands goes to the mind...\" ~ Maria Montessori.

[buds]

kikapo:

Hi Bud,


Impressive!! At 10mths already building up a vocab bank of baby words. Can share the activities that you go through? Can share the montessori lobang with me too?

Thanks!

I'm scouring my PM sent-box for the lobang and will PM you when i find it.

Will need to get back to you on the building up baby's vocab bank.
I'm currently a bit on to something different (on top of the current Montessori sensorial explorations that i'm doing now..) to add-on to my boy's learning capacity as he is active and a very fast learner. Plus i dislike attributing the trait of children being slow learners just cos they are Dec babies. :politebleah: