Week 4 at Montessori

Connor concentrating on a number puzzle

They say there comes a time during your child's school years that you are learning all over again with them. I just didn't realize it was going to come in the preschool years...Connor has learned geometrical shapes in his 4th week at Montessori. He told several of us the shapes he was learning - sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, ovoid, and ellipsoid. I had to get the last two from Ms. Beth's blog (see below). I think he has a good understanding of them too since he could give you examples or tell you what geometrical shape something was when quizzed. He's learning so much at his new school and growing up so fast!

Ms. Beth's Blog excerpt:

Each morning at circle this week, the children have learned a new geometrical solid shape. At first, some of the children called the sphere a circle and the cube a square, but after comparing the flat shapes with the 3-D shapes, the children caught on quickly. We began Monday with the sphere and the children named some things that we had in our room that were also spherical in shape such as the globe. I also introduced cube, cone, cylinder, ovoid (egg-shape), and ellipsoid (think football). We go around the circle taking turns naming the shapes, then as we take attendance, each child comes to my work rug, I place a handkerchief over their hands, and place one of the shapes into their hands. They are really good at figuring out which shape they're holding without even peeking! Other geometrical solids they'll be introduced to are the triangular prism, rectangular prism, square-based pyramid, and triangle-based pyramid.