Hooray some cursive at last!

Aliyah's very first real attempt at cursive writing in an Easter card to some friends. It may not seem very legible but this is really impressive after struggling to find ways to make the sandpaper letters interesting and Aliyah mainly just wanting to write in block capitals. She was even quite pleased with it herself.

Hannah becoming more independent with the pink box work.

A new activity - flags of Europe - which I bought from www.montessoriprintshop.com

Over Easter we did Benjamin's Box and filled up our treasure box with things to remind us about the Easter story. They could take this out during our Montessori time and look through it themselves.

Hannah doing some basic subtraction.

This took a while to make and a few attempts where I kept getting the colours wrong for the different parts of speech! But we now have a grammar farm and Aliyah is excited about making the sentences.

February and March

Recently the girls have been very interested in the map of Europe. Aliyah can name almost all of the countries in Europe and Hannah knows quite a few too. Aliyah is keen to get the next map out now but I think we'll work with some flags of Europe first. 

One day when Aliyah had chicken pox and we had to stay in, we decided to trace around the continents of the world and paint them. 

Here's Livvy with some of her recent activities:
The Imbucare Peg Box, an animal puzzle and working hard on pulling herself up.

Aliyah has been enjoying looking at and painting some of Monet's pictures with a friend.

We have just bought a juicer to try to get a little healthier at home, which has provided lots of opportunity for peeling and chopping practice.

The days are getting slightly warmer now so when it's not raining I try to put a couple of activities outside so they can go get some fresh air if they want to. They loved the trampoline being outside.

Hannah was delighted that the water table could again be part of our Montessori time and on this day it was particularly exciting as the water had frozen and trapped a toy octopus in it.

One day they even wanted to eat outside with their friends.

They are beginning to get a bit better at working together now.

 Aliyah working with Grammar Farm 1.