Nito was working diligently on the world map this past week. I never really presented this last year to him or Bubs. Bubs is really behind on learning his continents and oceans, but it will be good for them to do some group work together to reinforce the information.
After Nito worked with it a few times, he chose a continent box off of the shelf. Authentic Montessori continent boxes, I believe, have items from the actual continents in there for the child to manipulate sensorially. For example, maybe a cool instrument might be found in the South American box or a small carved wooden animal in the Africa box. Ours are just a few different language booklets along with a geography folder with pictures. (I know pretty lame.....maybe one day!)
Here is a picture of what's inside the Europe box. There are several three-part card booklets to choose from. In each box, there is an assortment of animals from that continent, food, instruments, flags, etc. Then the child can start to associate those different things with that continent and eventually with the specific country. Some of our conversations with working on the animals or instruments leads to possibly watching a cool video (usually found on YouTube). Hey, whatever gets the child to be excited about geography and language right?! Their teacher secretly likes watching these videos too. I am learning right along with them :)
Sample folder with various pictures and descriptions from some of the countries located on the specific continent.
Picture of ladies in Poland. This also helps the child visualize the attire, climate, landscape, etc. from these countries.
Sample picture from Croatia.
Bubs decided to join in on the three-part cards.
They really enjoyed the animal pictures from Europe. I have to say there are some interesting ones that I had trouble pronouncing.
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