Monday
Flower Arranging
Materials:
Tray
3 vases or glass jars
small pitcher or mason jar
scissors
flowers
Teachers tip of the week: As we add new lessons each week, keep in mind the lessons from previous weeks and continue to make those available to your child until your child has mastered the skill or loses interest. Creating a Montessori style shelf will help your child to choose work independently and use the activities repeatedly to develop the skill.
Extension: You can make labels for the flowers and place them in front of the vase. If your child is beginning to write you could help them by writing in yellow and having them trace over the letters with a pencil or thin marker.
Tuesday
Flower Petal Perfume
Materials:
fragrant flowers
mortar and pestle/bowl and stick
funnel
mesh sieve
ornate bottle
You may or may not have all of these things at home but it was too cute of an activity and I know that the children will love this "work". Get creative and improvise with what you do have at home to make this activity.
Wednesday
Parts of a Flower Booklet
Materials:
Red, green , and yellow colored pencils
Printed Flower Booklet page
(I will be giving a lesson on this during our zoom meeting using the flower puzzle.)
Precut the page for your child. You will need five flower pages. The parts of the flower are; flower, sepal, petals, pistil, stamen. Your child will color one part of the flower on each page and label it on the bottom. You may need to help them by writing in yellow or labeling it for them, and guiding them on only coloring in that part of the flower. Keep pages loose to use with the flower dissecting lesson on Thursday. A booklet can be made after by stapling the pages together.
Thursday
Flower Dissecting
Materials:
Flowers
Tweezers
Completed parts of the flower pages from Wednesday lesson
Lay out the parts of a flower pages. Dissect your flower with tweezers or fingers and lay the different parts under the corresponding part of the flower page. Dissect different flowers and compare the differences and similarities.
Friday
Tissue Paper Tulip
Materials:
Printed tulip pattern
Green tissue paper (or other colored paper)
Pink tissue paper(or any color of your choice)
Scissors
School glue
Activity: Start by printing off the tulip pattern on white cardstock paper. Have your child cut it out.
Cut your green and pink tissue paper into squares.
Put school glue onto the stem and leaf of your tulip flower and add crinkled up green tissue paper to it.
Add school glue all over the tulip flower and cover it with your pink tissue paper squares (or color of your choice). Let the glue dry completely.