Math Shelves for Camp Friend School In North America

NOTE: THIS IS JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS WE HAVE ON OUR MATH SHELVES!



We have used this super cute Roll a graph game from 2teachingmommies for our "Morning Minute"....the kids have been caught playing it together too! They love grabbing the magnet disks after wards with the wand....I found this at a local teaching supply store but have seen it online also.

Milk top counters:
Simple to make, fun to use!

No campground would be complete without marshmallows! The little ones tong them onto this fun counting sheet from Confessions of a Homeschooler (it is called the number sticker sheets).

This fun dot to dot came from Kidsparkz.

This cute squirrel math game has been a huge hit! The kids lay out each squirrel, roll the dice, then feed the squirrel the correct number of nuts (found at the local Dollar Tree store last year). The printable squirrels came from Prekinders.

Geography Shelves: In the Forest of North America

NOTE TO ALL READERS: I am a mommy NOT a photographer! :)

The little ones having been LOVING our new continent map! We use it to sing our continent song each day as we point to the continent. For those who are interested, I wouldn't make this map any larger. It is just the right size for all of our friends to sit around, but not overwhelm them if they do it alone. After singing our song, our "map helper" gets to put the camper and the continent name on the map. Then all of the friends get to name the animal and place it on the map by saying: "the bear lives on the continent of North America."

I purchased all of the Safari Ltd. animals toobs for each of the continents so that they would all be the same size. I then used fabric puffy paint on the underside of the animal with the matching continent color for easy identification.

The continent of North America shelves include a variety of super fun things! Our Montessori globe is super fun and the kids love it! They think they are sooo tricky when they spin it!

They are loving this sensory tray with all kinds of things that you would find in the forest including a snail shell, pine cone, rocks, acorns, feathers, a little bird, and some unusual dried berries. It was so cute on the shelf I was happy to just have it there, but then when they started using it, I was thrilled!

We have been reading the book In the Woods by Ermanno Cristini. It is lovely book that only has wonderful illustrations. I have it on a small easel to display it well.



These awesome 3 part cards come from The Montessori Print Shop which I have fallen in love with. All of their things are beautiful, inexpensive and save ME a lot of time!





This is a super fun forest animal matching game and the pictures are wonderful.

I am glad that I live in this BEAUTIFUL world....theme for 2011-2012 school year

How happy I am to get to work on a theme that has purpose and meaning. I have shared with you the big picture, but the nitty gritty details and pouring out of my head. This has been the catalyst for such an amazing idea for our school year, not to mention a whole lot of prayer. I made an over head projector transparency of the world at Office Depot for $.60 and plan on using the overhead projector at the church to blow it up on and trace it on the coordinating colors for felt. If any of you feel like joining me one night at the church, don't be afraid to jump up and down!

Our first 2 week theme will be: Camp Friend School as we study North America. I purchased these North American animals today and can't wait to use them. I am going to put puffy fabric paint dots on the bottoms of the animals to match the Continent colors so that the little one's will know what container they go in.
A reminder of the song we will be using each morning while we point to each continent on the map in front of them:

The tune is "Freres Jacque."

North America, South America,

Europe, Asia, Africa; Europe, Asia, Africa,

Australia, Australia,

Antarctica, Antarctica.

I will link to all of the fun activties as I empty my head over the next few days. I am also going to create a bi-weekly check list for each theme that we can go through when mom's come to hang out so that we can ensure each little one is "mastering" the shelf work.