Powered By Blogger
"The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination."

--Dr. Maria Montessori



Monday, June 6, 2011

Make & Take Monday

I apologize for not posting last week - - - technical difficulties. This will be my last week until after the summer. I am ready for a much needed vacation. Hope you enjoy your summer too!

SUMMER WRITING (OR READING) KIT
A personalized writing or reading kit will keep supplies in one place and inspire kids to write and read wherever summer adventures take them!
Materials: favorite fun reading and writing materials like:
  • markers, crayons, pens,
  • paper
  • stickers
  • envelopes
  • post-it notes, tiny note pads (or small stapled booklets of blank paper)
  • mini-flashlights
  • clipboard
  • cereal box decorated with catalogue/magazine clippings
Directions:
1. Cut the cereal box at an angle and then decorate it with clippings from catalogues and magazines.
2Add an assortment of reading and writing materials.
3. For the container, use: a giant Ziploc bag, cloth bags, blank aluminum lunchboxes, a pencil box 
4. For the writing kit, use: ‘special’ summer writing paper, various sizes of  paper, colorful post-its, glittery pencils and pens, postcards, poetry objects, etc.
5. For the reading kit, use: books written by the child, special book marks with reading reminders.


Taken from Tiny Reader

   


1 comment:

  1. Your blog is extremely interesting, i love reading your blog and got so much knowledge and understanding from it. My blog is also related to this topic Early Childhood Development.
    Please comment if you find my blog interesting.

    http://earlyhood.blogspot.com
    http://parenting-wikipedia.blogspot.com

    ReplyDelete