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Home » Montessori » Montessori Preschool Language Activity – Sound Bag

Montessori Preschool Language Activity – Sound Bag

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Montessori Language activities for preschoolers are concrete and effective. My 3 year old has entered his sensitive period for learning sounds. Each week one part of his learning involves a sound of the week. Originally I had placed objects, images and a sandpaper letter on a tray and left for him to discover. It was hit or miss. He wasn’t quite drawn to it. Then, I decided to add an element of surprise to the Sound of the Week.

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Montessori Preschool Language Activity

I made a Montessori Preschool language activity – Sound of the Week Bag. The bag includes real images, small objects or replicas, the sandpaper letter, scraps of paper and a crayon for rubbing the sandpaper letter.

Additionally, I provided an invitation to go on a walk to discover things in our environment that begin with that particular sound.  We naturally go outside after breakfast anyone so this activity provided a nice segue for us.

“Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.” ~ Dr. Maria Montessori

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For example, this week we’re covering “f” (to make the sound: place your upper teeth on your lower lip and blow out quickly keeping your mouth closed) so we’ll head outside and inevitably head to the pond to check on our FROGspawn, then maybe we’ll head to the FOREST and see buds of the first FLOWERS of the spring or FERNS beginning to grow into our path. You get it. I will carry a notebook jotting these discoveries down, perhaps even snapping a photo, to review at a later point.

Why is this activity beneficial to your child?

  • Gets a child excited about learning and discovering
  • Within context of child’s world
  • Combines learning and moving the body
  • Learning sounds naturally and organically, in a way that the child is likely to retain the knowledge

When an activity isn’t going as planned or as you imagined, make a slight change and the whole world could open up!

Enjoy!
Marnie

Tagged With: Preschool, Reading and Writing

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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