Sorting and Opposites

              I cut and colored the pumpkins and cut out the fence and glued them all to a green paper. Then I put one large pumpkin at the top and one small pumpkin at the bottom for examples.  Next I picked a pumpkin, varying the order and used a glue stick on the back to make it sticky.  I asked Gosling if it was big or little and Where does it go? She then placed all of the pumpkins in the correct spot all by herself. I was one very proud Mommie!

Another awesome give away.
http://blog.montessoriprintshop.com/2012/07/13/the-animal-kingdom-bundle---giveaway.aspx
Good Luck!

Wet Pouring
We moved on to wet pouring this month. It's nice and hot outside so any spills will quickly dry. I added 1 drop of blue food coloring to 1/4 cup of water, just to make it even more inviting.

In May I put out a flower shaped ice cube tray with one yellow pom pom that fit in each flower.  She used her fingers to pinch the pom poms out and then put them back.  This month I put blue pom poms into a starfish shaped ice cube tray. I increased the level of the skill by adding tweezers for her to use to pick up the pom poms.

Since June is beach weather I decided on a beach theme this month.  It only took Gosling a few minutes to find the new box full of sea shells, star fish and coral.  She takes them out, one by one, investigating as she goes, then she puts them back in the box.  These are real items so being gentle was something for us to work on. Her favorite item is the star fish, partly because she knows it's name and partly because it feels so neat.

I saw this on Facebook this morning.  I've decided I'm going to hang it in our home school room as a reminder to me more than as a reminder to the girls.

Edible Rosary

I saw this on someone else's blog this morning and had to share. It's made of raisins and grapes with a cookie cross of course. The blog is called Catholic Icing and the owner said that her sister, Stephanie, made these. Funny that her sister is Stephanie. I saw that as a sign! I will be doing this in the future.