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I just started a small classroom with only 4-5 children at the age around two and half. They were very eager to come to the classroom for the 1st two months and loved to do all the PL exercises I prepared for them like spooning, pouring, activities with water (watering plant, sponge squeezing etc.), polishing activities. They also like puzzles, cutting, pasting, threading work. But now they seem to touch these materials less and less.

They worked with Sensorial materials with much less enthusiasm. They would repeat Cylinder Block. But to my disappointment, they seldom touched Pink Tower, Brown Stair even color tablets. I haven't presented Red Rods yet. I tried Geo. Cabinet with them but the interest only lasted for a couple of days.

One of the Moms told me that her girl doesn't want to come to the class recently. Obviously there's not too much challenges for the girl. But I'm at the end of my rope. What kind of work I should provide with them to keep them being challe...See More
Mary Since you have such a small class size and all new students, you will have to rely more on your small group lessons and activites than you might otherwise. In established classes, the youngest students spend much of their time observing the older children at work. Songs, stories, fingerplays, sensorial games, practical life extensions (cooking, sew...See More
Nov 9, 2010
Lily On 11/09/10, Mary wrote: > Since you have such a small class size and all new students, > you will have to rely more on your small group lessons and > activites than you might otherwise. In established classes, > the youngest students spend much of their time observing the > older children at work. Songs, stories, fingerplays, sensor...See More
Nov 10, 2010
Mary For AMI training, these small group lessons are given a bit differently. It is not a whole group lesson. You can give small group lessons (2 or 3 children who are wandering without choosing work). Gather a small group and do a short lesson (song, poem, etc) then excuse them with an idea of something they will go to work on. I don't think any AMI to...See More
Nov 10, 2010
Toddlers Thanks Mary for the salt dough recipe. I do have the children to make play dough by themselves and they love it! I don't have oven in the classroom right now. Maybe I shall buy one.

I also prepared threading work as well as sewing cards for them. Making necklace was a hit 1 month ago.

I finished my 3-6 AMI training 2 years ago. P...See More
Nov 21, 2010


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