Carolyn's Vlog 2: Pygmy Forest, Pomeranian doggie, Mozart, and Picasso

PREPARATION IS A KEY INGREDIENT FOR SUCCESSFUL MONTESSORI LESSONS 

Carolyn's Vlog 2 from Magical Movement Company.com

Preparing

Welcome to my second Vlog in my Vlogging Series about Music, The Arts, Outdoor Classroom, Kids, Little doggies, and the Pygmy Forest.  Just a few of my most favorite things!

How do you prepare for your day? And especially how do you get inspired for your work with children in the Montessori setting, the Home setting, or wherever you spend time with kids?

Here is my Vlog 2: "Pygmy Forest, Pomeranian doggie, Mozart and Picasso"

 

Often, I need to go out and explore my beautiful neighborhood with my little Pomeranian doggie first thing in the morning and there I find so much inspiration for my work with children. 

CLAY

In this Vlog, we take a walk on my "Pygmy Path" through the unique Pygmy forest near my house. There, walking on the forest floor of hardpan clay, I remember how much I love introducing clay to children. My favorite artist for first experiences with clay is Picasso. (Actually, Picasso is my favorite artist for introducing just about every medium in art to children!)

             Image from Adobe stock: "Picasso's Ceramics." National Picasso Museum, Vallauris, France 

STEADY BEAT

As well, when we got the rhythm of our walking together, my doggie Gigi reminded me of how the music concept of "Steady Beat" naturally lends itself to the walking rhythm of a quick adventure walk in the morning. We just naturally tend to walk in a steady rhythm and so we find that real experiences effectively lay the foundation for more in depth and formal lessons in music concepts as well as the elements of art.

These activities, "Exploring Steady Beat" with Mozart's music, and "Introducing Clay" with Picasso's Art,  are explained more thoroughly in my Musically Montessori eCourses and my Artfully Montessori eCourse now available at the Trillium Montessori site. 

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Carolyn's Vlog 1: Intro To My YouTube "Vlog Series" About The Things I Love

SOMETIMES WE NEED TO TRY SOMETHING NEW, RIGHT?

Carolyn's VLOG 1 from Magical Movement Company.com

CREATING

My eCourses are now on the Trillium Montessori site and that gives me more time to create!

You can check out my newest "Vlog" on my Youtube Channel at this link:

Magical Movement Company Youtube Channel

Carolyn's Vlog 1: "Intro to my Vlog Series about Music, The Arts, Outdoor Classroom, Kids, Little doggies, and even the Pygmy forest"

 

You can check out my eCourses at these links:

Artfully Montessori: "Creating an Art Curriculum for Young Children" 

Musically Montessori: "Music Bundle" 

Did you happen to lose touch with your kid students in 2020-21?

As a result of the pandemic, I had lost my bearings in my work and career.

Yes, I did have fun doing Zoom Music classes with some  of the groups I had worked with in person before covid. 

The children were so happy to "see" me again, and I did get the hang of teaching online. That was an interesting process since some of the children were piled up cozy in their beds, some were rolling around on the rug in their living rooms, and some were "glued to their parents' side" as they were still a bit scared of the zoom experience!

Gradually, we all got better at it, and it was always fun. 

Children were using wooden spoons from their kitchens for Rhythm Sticks. Sometimes, we even used tissues as a substitute for movement scarves. It was an ongoing and creative process, and the teachers were so appreciative and excited to give their little "zoomers" some enrichment experiences during those unexpected and sometimes confusing times of online learning.

However, when the kids returned to in-person schooling again, I was not comfortable being in the classrooms of 24-36 young children, and so until recently, I've been a "virtual teacher" for adult educators and I've only had special times when my grandchild, god child, and their little friends have made music with me in- person in my home or theirs.

During the past year, I have been collaborating with the Trillium Montessori team to move all my eCourses over to that site, and it has been a wonderful success! 

In the meantime, I realized that what I really want to do nowadays is work with a small group of local children in the afternoons making music and art, and exploring the outdoor classroom. My three favorite things to do with kids!

ENTER: Montessori Kids Studio

Fortunately, I have my entire music studio with a small Orff Instrumentarium set up in my home. 

Two of my rooms are dedicated to music and art activities for a group of six children in the afternoons. 

I'll be opening up my small program: "Montessori Kids Studio" in late January 2024. 

It has been an exciting new endeavor that gives me a satisfying "purpose" again.

Not that teaching online eCourses isn't giving me a purpose in my work. Actually it is very satisfying...but I  had to face it:

I'VE BEEN MISSING THE KIDS!

I miss the classroom experience with its routine, its "bee hive buzz" and its community of young learners. 

So, I thought I'd start "Vlogging" about my old stand-by Montessori curriculum, my new small home studio setting, and my new ideas for music, the arts, and the outdoor classroom that I have been developing over recent years when I had lots of time to take eCourses and Webinars from some of my favorite creators.  

Now that Trillium is handling my eCourses, I have time to develop more activities for music, the arts and especially the Outdoor Classroom. And, with my adorable Montessori Kids Studio, I have children to try out those activities and give me even more ideas!

I hope you enjoy my Vlog Series, where you can get a little glimpse of how I prepare for my music and art lessons and explore some of the beautiful places in my neighborhood in the Redwoods of Northern California. And you'll meet my sweet little companion, Gigi. My beautiful little Pomeranian doggie that was a gift from my daughter. She loves my little collection of rhythm instruments!

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Thank you again, for visiting with me at my Blog today. I hope you get some inspiration from my new Vlog Series. I invite you to explore the many articles here in my blogspot where I've written  for many years, about the fun activities my groups have enjoyed.

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Artfully Montessori: Four Color Activities and a Free Montessori Color Tablets Extension, too!

YOUR MONTESSORI CHILDREN WILL LOVE WORKING WITH COLOR USING COLOR TABLETS, COLOR-MIXING, AND EVEN THE MOVEABLE ALPHABET.
Here are four fun extensions with the Montessori Color Tablets that include these curriculum areas: Music/Sensorial, Math, Art and Language. And, please don't miss my newest freebie: "Montessori Color Tablet Activity!"

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I got this idea from a long-time colleague, Mary Cooper, and I decided to create a freebie for all of you to enjoy in your Montessori environments.

You'll find the link at the end of this post. Or, if you are already a subscriber, then you can download this resource right away!

It is a hands-on matching work that moves into a take-home activity sheet, that even goes further to become a fun rhyming words/Language activity as well!

What I love most about Montessori materials is that you can use them in so many ways as the children become more and more skilled at using them. 

The Montessori Color Tablets have always been one of my favorites, especially Color Box 3 with its amazing array of color hues that can turn into a beautiful work of art when completed!

MUSIC & SENSORIAL

Children in just about every Montessori environment, set up the Color Box 3 in a lovely display that also sharpens their visual discrimination skills.

Your children may already do this lovely extension with Color Box 3, in which you arrange the various shades of tablets from darkest to lightest from a center nonagon or circle. When the child has completed the work, then we set a candle in the middle (battery operated candles work great) and then we sing the song, "I Can Sing a Rainbow."

Here are the words to that song:

"Red and orange and yellow and green

Blue and violet, too.

I can sing a rainbow, Sing a rainbow

You can sing a rainbow, too."

 Adding the song, creates a little celebration for color!

MATH

This "Color Addition" activity combines color mixing with math symbols.

I learned about this activity during my AMS training years ago and it is a wonderful reinforcement for your classroom work with color mixing and understanding the secondary colors from the elements of art.

There are strips of paper from a template with 5 squares printed on each strip. The first square is blank, second square has a printed plus sign, then there is another blank, followed by a printed equal sign and finally the fifth square is a blank.

The child colors in the blank squares with first a primary color (ex: red) then fills the third square with another primary color (ex: yellow) and then colors the final blank square with the resulting secondary color that results when the 2 primary colors are mixed. (ex: red+yellow=orange) 

ART

The Color Tablets in the very first Montessori "Casa di Bambini" in Rome, were made of spools of thread. This beautiful work pictured below is a simple round tray that is set up for the children to arrange actual spools of thread around to create a Color Wheel, to go along with your studies of the Elements of Art.  

This activity works best if you can find a round tray with compartments so that the child can see the place to lay out each spool. Also, I would recommend creating a control card of a color wheel that would go along with this activity. 

You can add another challenge of placing small labels of the names of each color that has been arranged on the child's color wheel. 

LANGUAGE

This Activity is a combination of the Montessori Color Tablets and the Montessori Moveable Alphabet! 

You can add objects (such as a button that is the color of the tablet).

This particular work was designed to work with the phonogram alphabet box and so the double ee is built with the red letters and then circled with a small embroidery hoop.

MORE LANGUAGE IN MY "FREEBIE"

This Activity is designed to be set up first as a manipulative shelf work, with a laminated control chart. The child finds the correct color tablet from Box 2 and then places it on the correct drawing of the particular color tablet pictured. (ex: the red color tablet) Then, the child reads the word "red" and points to the picture of the bed and says, "bed." That rhymes!

After the child has done the work with the actual tablets, the s/he is ready to make her own chart. In my Freebie, there are templates for you to copy for the children to fill in the colors and the name of the color and they can even color in the object pictured. (ex: red bed)

Later, the child can make another chart and fill in the name of the rhyming word instead of the name of the color.

This was always a popular activity with my groups when I was a classroom teacher! I hope your group enjoys it, too.

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Artfully Montessori: Are Your Montessori Children Making Little Books? My Latest "Vlog"

DO YOU KNOW THE ABUNDANCE OF BOOKLET MAKING ACTIVITIES THAT WILL ENGAGE CHILDREN IN THE MONTESSORI ENVIRONMENT?

Okay, so your children found a snail in the lettuce patch this morning. 

Make a note to put out "The Parts of the Snail"  3-Part Cards and nomenclature booklet making trays. And, if you have the parts of a snail puzzle, that is a must for the shelf, too. 

Here's a quick 1-minute video showing the process of children creating their little Montessori Nomenclature Booklets:

A MONTESSORI HALLMARK 

PARTS OF THE TREE BOOKLET MAKING

How about booklets for parts of the guinea pig?...or the gold fish or whatever classroom pets you may have!

Over the years, we've put out some amazing parts of...booklets for the children. 

Here are a few ideas:

Parts of...

~ Insect

~ Volcano

~ Sea Horse

~ Space ship

~ Fire truck

~ Horse

~ Cheetah

~ Sea Turtle

~ Land Turtle

~ Ant

~ Butterfly

~ Plant

~ Fish

~ Amphibian

~ Reptile

~ Bird

~ Orchestra

~ Trumpet

~ Violin

~ Timpani Drum

~ Dog

~ Cat

~ Rabbit

~ Penguin

~ Evergreen Tree

~ Flower

~ Solar System

~ Tarantula

~ House

~ Car

~ Dump Truck

The list goes on.

A GREAT WAY TO "FOLLOW THE CHILD"

When the children bring us questions about their favorite discoveries in the environment, that's the time to engage their interest even further with activities that feature their new interest. 

And, "Parts of.." Booklet making can be one of the most engaging activities for Montessori children.

THE PROCESS: FROM "CONCRETE TO ABSTRACT"

The process goes something like this:

~ Begins with a real experience, if possible (ex: hugging a tree in the garden)

~ Next, the child puts together a Montessori style "Parts of...puzzle" related to the real experience (Ex: Parts of the Tree puzzle)

~ Then you will see the child exploring the Montessori 3-Part Cards that go along with this new interest of the child/ren (Ex: Nomenclature cards with control cards, and cards with labels for the child to manipulate)

~ Finally, the child will dive into making a "Parts of..." Booklet (in this case: "Parts of the Tree" Booklet) 

HOW I SET UP THE TRAYS FOR 

MONTESSORI-STYLE BOOKLET MAKING

How you set up the trays for making these Montessori Booklets is up to you. I've seen so many lovely ways to set these up in the many Montessori classrooms I've been in. 

You can see the way that I like to set it up in the slide show video included in this post. (above)

HERE'S ONE WAY

In my newest Musically Montessori eCourse we will be making gazillions of "Parts of..." Booklets, along with 3- Part Cards to match.

Here is a partial list from the eCourse: 

~ The Sections of the Orchestra

~ Parts of the Music Stand

~ My Orchestra Booklet (with vocabulary words like: Orchestra, conductor, stage, audience, etc.)

~ Parts of the Brass Family of Instruments

~ Parts of The Trumpet

~ Parts of The Trombone

~ Parts of The French Horn

~ Parts of The Tuba

~ Parts of the String Family of Instruments 

~ Parts of The Violin, The Viola, The Cello, and The Bass

~ Parts of the Woodwind Family of Instruments

~ Parts of The Flute, The Clarinet, The Oboe, and The Bassoon

~ Parts of the Percussion Family of Instruments

~ Parts of The Snare Drum, The Bass Drum, The Timpani Drum, the Xylophone, The Glockenspiel, The Tambourine, and The Triangle

A FEW OF THE 

COGNITIVE BENEFITS FOR THE CHILD

• Language and vocabulary development, of course
• Child's developing skills in organizing knowledge
• Small muscle exercise (Filling in the "Parts" and eventually WRITING!)
• Self confidence (READING the book you created!)
• Creativity: putting the little book together (I like to use colorful ribbon so that the books turn out absolutely adorable and are very engaging to the aesthetic sense in the child)
• ORDER, CONCENTRATION, COORDINATION AND INDEPENDENCE!

Once the children see that most of the "Parts of ..." Booklets in the environment follow the same format, then the child has discovered the "key" and will be excited to make more and more of them. 

VERY ENGAGING FOR THE MONTESSORI CHILD

After the child has worked with Montessori 3-Part Cards, they soon catch on to the fact that the particular part that is featured is usually colored in with red. 

Likewise, when making a "Parts of..." Booklet, the child sees that the featured part is colored in with red. (like Montessori 3-Part Cards) This is a familiar concept by now (it's the "key'!) and so the child embarks upon making the pages of his or her booklet  come to life with that red colored pencil!

In the beginning, the teacher or an older child can write in the words on each page of the child's booklet. However, I have found that the children quickly become motivated to write in the words themselves and these first little books are the most charming of all!

Many Montessori environments encourage the child to read their newly created "Parts of..." Booklet to the other children. This is very fun for all, but especially confidence-building for the child who has discovered the "key" and it is also very motivating for the child who is about to discover the "key."

"PARTS OF THE MUSIC STAND" 

FROM LESSON ONE: "MUSICALLY MONTESSORI ECOURSE, INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA"

The real experience!

All the way to creating the Montessori style 

"Parts of..." Booklet

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Artfully Montessori: Learning About the Winter Solstice With Five Activities and a Freebie, too!

IT IS WINTER! THE LONGEST NIGHT IS APPROACHING AND MONTESSORI CHILDREN CAN DISCOVER THE MAGIC OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE IN LOTS OF ARTFUL WAYS. Read on for my ideas, activities and resources from around the web. And, see my newest Freebie for a sweet addition to your Montessori Cultural Shelf.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is just around the corner. This year it happens on December 21st, at 8:30 in the morning, where I happen live. You can check out the exact time for your area at this site: The Old Farmer's Almanac  

The most obvious thing about the Winter Solstice is the sun. This is the day of the year when the night is actually longer than the day. So, we have the least amount of sunlight on that day. That is why, in most cultures,  it is important to emphasize the light and to spend time with others in order to get through this longest night of the year! Yes, light will be returning, because after the Solstice the days begin to grow longer. 

For children, we can offer many activities that celebrate the sun, the light, and gathering together. In the Montessori environment, we can always relate these activities to our Cultural Studies, Practical Life Activities, and all the other areas of curriculum as well.

Photo from Adobe Stock

Midwinter festivals are happening all over the world, and throughout history, we find fascinating stories about the sun returning to the people. 

LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES

I love this book that is filled with Winter Solstice stories, The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice.  I saw in the reviews on Amazon that one family was using this book in a very interesting way. During the twelve days before the Solstice, they were planning to read one story a night. That sounds really lovely to me.

• Read or tell a Midwinter Story each day. This book has twelve! 
• Extend this with simple activities that celebrate the season and teach the words to a rhyme or song to go along. 

Available at Amazon

You could easily do that in the classroom as well. Even though it is not a picture book, the stories are short enough and engaging enough to read to an older Preschool group at a 15 minute Story Time. In this case, be sure that you read the stories yourself before offering them to the children. There are some that you may feel are not appropriate for young children in a group setting and all of them are stories that involve imagining rather than reality-based.  Even if you only read a few, this book is a wonderful resource for activities dedicated to the Winter Solstice. 

The last section has some lovely activities for children. Here are a few:

• "Tree Offering": Sprinkle seeds, glitter, or cornmeal at the foot of a tree outside. Then say: "Leaf to leaf, root to root, seed to seed. May all that we have be all that we need."
• "Deck the Halls": Decorate the environment with cuttings of rosemary, bay, holly, ivy or fir. Everyone names a blessing for the year.  Then sing, "Deck the Halls."
• "Bake and Eat a Treat":  Say or sing, "Into the oven we slide this treat. May all hold close and life be sweet." Check out my Sun Bread Activity later in this article to really celebrate the sun! This is the book that gave me the idea, Sun Bread, by Elisa Kleven.

Available at Amazon

CULTURAL STUDIES

There are stories about the Winter Solstice all over the world as you can see in the "Return of Light" book I mentioned earlier in this article. That book has Solstice stories from The Americas, India, Polynesia, Tanzania, the Nordic Islands, China, South Africa, Venezuela, and Italy.

As you introduce the story of the day, you can: 

• Bring out the Montessori Globe or Puzzle Map of the World to enrich the experience by connecting the story to the place on the globe.
• If you happen to have a doll or some other artifact from that place in the world, the children will enjoy passing it around as you read the story.

And, there are even more stories for the Solstice. You can do a google search and find lots more. One of my favorites follows.

The Story of the Kachinas 

from the Hopi Tribe of North America

Over the years, one of my favorite Solstice stories has been about the Kachinas from the Native American Hopi tribe. The Kachinas are dolls that represent stories about the spiritual beginnings of life and how to behave appropriately in your community.

From Legends of America.com:

The Hopi were the first to create kachina dolls as a way to teach children about these spiritual beings and the wisdom they have to share with the people. The dolls are traditionally carved from a single piece of cottonwood root, then are painted and adorned to represent objects from the tribe's spiritual beliefs. 

The messages of the dolls and the men acting in the ceremonies vary widely from teaching the identities of the kachinas and the symbolism of their regalia, to proper behavior and learning about responsibilities. Each kachina has a different purpose - Ogres teach discipline, Chief Kachinas teach wisdom and have powers comparable to that of a religious elder, the female kachinas teach values, clown kachinas provide amusement, and others provide advice, blessings, and warnings.

What I love about the Kachina stories is that they are considered helpers who reside in the heavens (or high in the mountains), but who come down to be with us during the time between the Winter Solstice and the Summer Solstice. 

One of the Hopi Kachinas is actually called "Sunface Dancer!" Here is a photo of this Kachina. The feathers surrounding the face of the dancer are like the rays of the sun. What could be more appropriate for this time of year!

On the Winter Solstice, the Hopi conduct ceremonies in which dancers from the tribe dress in their Kachina attire and perform the story of the "Soyal", the Winter Solstice dance. The children of the tribe are given Kachina dolls representing the dancers to help them understand the story. 

From an article titled, "Soyal Ceremony: Hopi Kachinas Dance At Winter Solstice" in WilderUtopia.com, I discovered an interesting version of the Winter Solstice dance.

In the story, the "bearer of the sun shield" must fight off the hostile powers that might effect the sun (drought, fire, darkness, cold). The article goes on to explain the dance movements:

Then they arrange themselves into two groups, one on the north side, another on the south. Then they sing as the bearer of the sun shield rushes to one side, then the other. He is driven back by the shield bearers on both sides. The movements symbolize the attack of hostile powers on the sun (drought, fire, darkness, cold) that influence whether it will shine and bless the crops.

On the west wall of the kiva, they construct an altar with two or more ears of corn contributed from each family, surrounded by husks and stalks. It also has a large gourd with an effigy of the Plumed Snake’s head sticking out, operated like a puppet, rising and made to roar. The shield bearers then throw a meal to the snake effigy, answered by more roaring noises. This persuades him not to swallow the sun, like he does in an eclipse. When the Sun God’s footprints appear in the sand, everyone knows he has been persuaded to return.

The entire ceremony ends with a public kachina dance. The Katsinam remain with the people for the first half of the Wheel of the Year until the summer solstice, when they return to their home in the mountains. 

 At times, I have been able to show my groups, my collection of little ceramic replicas of Kachinas and even a real Kachina doll that I bought while traveling to the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. Acoma is the oldest pueblo that is still inhabited, and during the summer it is open to the public for educational tours.

Photo from DepositPhotos

The actual Soyal ceremonies are considered sacred rituals and the dances are not disclosed to people outside of the tribe. The ancients did these ritual dances in kivas, which are underground chambers reserved for sacred ceremonies.

Photo from Adobe Stock

My groups have enjoyed hearing the Kachina stories I have learned from reading about the Hopi tribe. The one I mentioned above has always been a favorite with my groups over the years. When I show them my Kachina collection and pictures of Kachinas, they are always fascinated because these dolls are traditionally made for the Hopi children.

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ART ACTIVITIES

Hopi artists are still making these Kachina dolls and they are truly exquisite. I found a lovely site on Etsy. 

"Sunface Kachina" at Bearlander Etsy Shop

In the past, I have provided small scraps of balsa wood for my Preschool classes to create their own Kachinas. We have enjoyed making these in several ways.

• Making Simple wooden "Kachina Dolls": Each child can wrap a small swatch of fabric around a small rectangle of balsa wood (from the Craft Store). Glue this on, then add feathers, beads or bits of leather lacing to decorate the doll. Lastly, the child (or adult) can draw on a simple face.
• Making Kachinas from cardboard tubes: These can be made following the same process described above only using a cardboard tube instead of a scrap of wood. Or, you can download a free template for coloring, cutting out, and then gluing on to the cardboard tubes. Here is an article with the template download for a color-cut-paste Kachina activity: DLTK Kids  

PRACTICAL LIFE ACTIVITIES

Baking is always popular this time of year, since the oven warms up not only the food, but the house as well!

Keeping to the Winter Solstice theme, baking "Sun Bread" fits perfectly into your activities. The recipe for sun bread can be found in the book mentioned earlier, Sun Bread.

Photo from DepositPhotos

You can make one or two regular size round loaves or you can provide each child with a smaller portion of bread dough so that s/he can create her own little sun loaf.

• Show the child how to flatten a ball of bread dough, then you can press the edges all around with a fork to make the "rays of the sun." 

• Or, like in the book, you can add little triangles of dough all around the round dough so that it looks like the sun.

• Or, for a quick "sun bread snack", simply toast up a slice of bread and add strips of cheddar cheese along with raspberries, blueberries, and cut up strawberries.  

Photo from DepositPhotos

MUSICAL ACTIVITIES

If you haven't ever heard this Winter Solstice song by Charlie Murphy, "Light is Returning," it is simple and just lovely. One of my all time favorites and one that both adults and children love.

"Light Is Returning" on Youtube

"This Little Light of Mine" is another song that is perfect for the Winter Solstice and always a big hit with children. 

"This Little Light of Mine" on Youtube

"Mr. Sun" is one of the very sweetest songs about the sun, ever! 

"Mr. Sun" with Charlie Hope on Youtube

I am so happy to have you visit my blog today. I hope you have gotten lots of ideas for your Winter Solstice celebration with your group!

What Midwinter Activities do you do with your groups? Feel free to leave a comment and tell me your ideas! I'd love to hear from you.

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