in the classroom: carrots, beets, ginger, radishes and sweet potatoes

i presented this in class today and children actually used it! yay!

montessori adventures: root vegetable recognition & a note about food in the classroom.

i present my original sensorial lesson - root vegetable recognition. it is basically a stereognostic matching work that introduces seasonal vegetables. the original post and lesson plan can be found here. i am a little late getting this in, but ideally i would present this during the heart of winter. this is part of my urban homesteading unit project and i love it!

i am still trying to decide how i feel about food in the classroom in terms of activities and work. i am trying to teach my children about healthy, natural foods and i feel strongly that this activity needs the actual food to show that. using rice as a sifting activity or beans for pouring - that i tend to stray away from because it is easy to substitute a non-food item for those activities. but when teaching about the actual plant i think it is important. 

what are your thoughts about food in the montessori classroom? do you or don't you? 

i love kinfolk: a montessori post about urban homesteading

kinfolk is amazing. if you don't know what it is - you should find out immediately. it was more or less the inspiration for my montessori unit project. here is the sensorial lesson that is part of my "inspired by kinfolk" urban homesteading lesson series. basically everything i like to do - childcentric.