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"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