Emma's I Can Teach Night

Emma hosted Bill and me last night at her school, and taught us Montessori lessons she's been mastering at school. We were so proud of her, but better yet, she was so proud of herself for showing us so many of her lessons. She was a great teacher!

Lesson #1 - Continents. Based on the color, Emma knows the name of the continent (it matches both a flat puzzle and globe in their room). She lays out the names of the continents on her mat, then matches various animals living on each continent, and calls out all the names of the animals as she matches them to their continent.

Lesson #2 - The pink tower. Emma taught us about matching the different size cubes to their 2-D squares on each card. Then, she created the tower from biggest cube to smallest cube.

Lesson #3 - Screwing Work (what a lot of people would like to do I'm sure with their jobs...and try not to giggle when your child brings this over and says what they are working on). This is working on gross motor skills and Emma finds the correct size nut to correspond to the bolt, then connects them all. They make it tricky because they have extra bolts that do not fit any of the nuts, and she is able to quickly figure out which ones go with each other. I just loved watching her concentration on this lesson.

Clean-Up: Here is my future engineer hard at work, ensuring her mat is perfectly rolled up. She was so serious about getting this perfectly aligned.