Teacher Activities

I am a first year Montessori teacher (pre-K). I have a lot of Montessori language materials available in my class, but I think I need a lot of extra activities for children. If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, things you did in your own classroom, I would appreciate it.
Thank you

I see boxes and small object set aside for individual sounds are always a popular add-on set language.

We have a "wheel", the children refer to him as a sun, but the same idea into reality. A cardboard / laminated poster board circle with pictures (6-8) on the edges corresponding to sounds. Our school has divided the letters into groups color coded so you would an orange wheel with images corresponding to the letters: t, s, b, n, c, a. Child uses clothespins of the same color with a letter on each. Child then turns the image, identifies the sound it starts with PEG and put on the corresponding wheel. It is a great reinforcement for those who know a lot of sounds but still needs more work but it also allows the teacher to see how the child can make one to one correspondence.

Another favorite activity - What does not belong. Just a laminate sheet with 6 pictures on it. In the middle is the letter that you focus on. 4 of 6 images begin with the letter you want and the other two "are not. Children would then cover up, (I used "poker" chips like a blanket "up"), images that do not belong. Your control error is that there are only two tokens per page.

I hope this makes sense and gives you some ideas.

Rainbow letters. I printed a few letters bubble - large enough size of 1 / 4 sheet of regular printer paper. Kids traced the letter with every color in the rainbow.

You can go to the hardware store and buy plastic organizers for nails and screws. I went to the dollar store and store boats and even teachers of stores to find small objects that correspond to specific sounds.

I cut the shapes of a theme month. So maybe Apple for September. I can write the capital letter on one side and lowercase on the Otherside. Then I cut it in half to make a piece of the puzzle

For the beginning of the year, I generally structure my shelf with the following language (Note: I think about it on the top of my head, it is sort of useless):

- Sandpaper Letters
- Materials of spying for the sounds that I start, ending sounds and sounds of the environment.
- Alphabet Mobile
- Letter of sound cards (see below)
- Records Reading
- Pictures to write stories
- Sand in a tray for tracing sandpaper letters

I also have on the wall the letters az whatever the style of writing letters of sandpaper are. Students can match letters sandpaper and then bring them to me to learn the sounds using the Lesson 3 period. I follow them on a sheet they also bring.

The cards are cards with his Letter Sound very beginning. There are three or so letters in a box. So, if the letters are "s", "T" and "m", I have 6 photos beginning with "s" 6 starting with "T" and 6 starting with "m" An error control the number of cards.

The child matches and then "reads" the cards out of me. If they messed up too high or too raised questions about vocabulary words, I have to practice again the next time they are engaged, but they can move on. It's a good idea to have "a" and "e" together, because they are like so good. It will take some time for students to pass through this area, sometimes, but worth it.
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