Lovely hatched a plan today after we had gone through the sandpaper numbers (btw - I was able to see - and feel - some 'real' sandpaper numbers at a Montessori school on the weekend & was *shocked* at how fine the sandpaper was!
I've used kinda average sandpaper which is *much* courser than the real ones & now I'm worried about sanding my children's fingertips off. Woops!) and it involved a lot of books...
Matching piles of books to each number! He was quite confident up until the last few & very interested with the idea that the Zero didn't get any books ;)
Lovely hatched a plan today after we had gone through the sandpaper numbers (btw - I was able to see - and feel - some 'real' sandpaper numbers at a Montessori school on the weekend & was *shocked* at how fine the sandpaper was! I've used kinda average sandpaper which is *much* courser than the real ones & now I'm worried about sanding my children's fingertips off. Woops!) and it involved a lot of books...
Matching piles of books to each number! He was quite confident up until the last few & very interested with the idea that the Zero didn't get any books ;)
The beauty in this is that it was HIS idea! Love it! :)
ReplyDeleteI know! I love that!! Plus, then we put all of the books away together including a big pile I had been meaning to sort all week ;)
ReplyDeletei've made my own sandpaper letters in the past, and used a somewhat rough sandpaper, definitely not as fine as the real ones. No one ever got bloody fingers :)
ReplyDeleteLOL :) I'm trying to show Lovely how to softly 'dance' his fingers across the sandpaper but he insists on pressing quite hard. We'll have to see how it turns out!
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas - great visual on the zero.
ReplyDeleteLaughed re the sandpaper. thanks for the tip. Do you think there will be a whole generation of homeschool monti children wuth weird fingertips? I was going to do normal rough stuff too. LOL.
Always LOVE visiting your blog.
and congrats on maps. (: