Katy No Pocket

- "hopping" block work (size matching, order, color, stacking, make a city)
- choose fabric to make pockets in an apron/ sew pockets on apron
- pictures of animals and people carrying their babies across the world
- prewriting work - help Katy and Freddy (whoops!) get to the city by drawing then cutting, "K" sand paper letters/drawing in sand (this was mostly an utter failure - but I now know we are NOT interested yet, this is good to know)
- Geography - Australia/maps/globe/flag
- Supplemental books: Montessori letter/map work books, Pouch!, A Ride on Mother's Back

The Carrot Seed

- collect seeds
- dig dirt
- transfer activity with seeds
- plant seeds in glass jar to see roots, etc
- plant carrot tops, celery root, leek root (or any veggie that regrows from itself)
- water transfer/watering plants/practical life skills
- color shade matching
- spindle counting with carrot sticks
- carrot digging sensory bin
- carrot pull with egg carton
- glass bean counting
- emotions (how did the boy feel? talk about patience)
- glass bean transfer
-draw carrots
- reenact the story
- write your own book

Play With Me

- animal puzzels
- animal matching, cards and silhouettes
- wonder about the girl: follow her eyes - where is she looking? How is she feeling? What is her name/age? Where does she live? What did she do before/after playing outside?
- Emotion cards (the girls happily made some of their own emotion faces too)
-  Emotion Man
- find and observe/feel dew
- memorize and recall all the animals
- Godly Play The Great Flood
- Rainbow to go with the flood

Blueberries For Sal

-Transfer activities with hand/spoon/tongs with blueberries: "canning", blueberries on bear, bowls

-Counting with blueberries, number matching

-Color matching: blue

-Size matching w/ Blueberries: small, smaller, smallest

-Sound: kaplink! With various objects in pail; Montessori sound tubes

- Act out the story

-Vocab: onomatopoeia 

-Godly Play Creation Story (God made blueberries, people, and animals)

My Blue Boat

-Make Blue Boats

-Color matching 

-Find the Blue Boat on every page

-Create own story with their blue boat

-Count boats, seagulls, stars, animals in the book

-Vocab: Beacon, Swell, Flipper, spout, pod, mammal, Constellation, Orbit

-Space explorations: stars/constellations, moon phases, planets 

-Wonder about the girl: her name, age, what she did before the bath, if she was scared in the storm, etc

-Learn about Dolphins and whales, animal matching cards

-Discuss art in the book: watercolors, color, favorite illustration

-Oral retelling of story

-Constellation pin-poking/lacing/matching

-Go to the ocean, ride a boat, go dolphin or whale watching, find sea shells, float in the swells, find shells, feed seagulls 

Montessori activities for My Blue Boat