Introduction to the theme

We read the book – “MY FAVOURITE PUMPKIN” and sang the action song.

Practical life

Washing the pumpkin

Tweezing

Spooning pumpkin seeds

Halloween soup

Dry pouring

Lasing

Cutting

Sensorial

1. Colour tablets

Matching colours

Knobless Cylinders

Cylinders

Mosaic

Brown Stairs

Language

Letters of the week

Feelings

Pumpkin as an inset

Pre-writing activities

Colouring Pumpkins in different colours

How does the Jack O’Lantern feel?

Sand Paper letters and Beginning Sounds

Maths

Pumpkin puzzles with 1-10 numbers

Size sorting

Counting Pumpkins

Gounting Ghosts.

Shape tracing

Countung and sorting

sizes and shapes

Maths puzzles

Montessori Gold Bead Material –

Introducing to the Decimal System

This activite helps to introduce the child to the concept of the decimal system and to make the child familiar with the names and relative sizes of the categories. In addition it helps the child to see the difference in bulk between e.g. 6 units and 6 thousands.

Nine layout objects

Nine layout – symbols

This work is to acquaint the child with the written symbols for the quantities/categories of the decimal system.

Association of Quantity and Symbol, Boards, Cards and Beads

The bead stair clearly distinguishes each number up to 9 as separate entities of differing quantities. The bead bars hat compose it facilitate the construction of the numbers from 11 to 19 and show respectively their relation to the quantity of 10. To teach sequence, the numbers from 11 to 19.

To teach the names twenty, thirty, forty, etc… and to show the child that twenty is two tens and so for the up to ninety.

Shape of the week – Square

Number of the week – 2

Colour of the week – ORANGE

Science

Exploring the pumpkins

Pumpkin life cycle

Halloween pictures matching

Halloween puzzles

Art & Crafts.

Making faces for pumpkins

Play-dough activities with Halloween shapes

Making a bag for Trick-or-treating

And here we are ready for Halloween Party