A good day

I am trying to post more often on here, as I'm sad I only managed one post in February, but I'm finding it harder to find new things to say. I've settled into a routine at Mahali so I suppose there are fewer new things happening. So I'll try and do some little posts with snippets from the day which I might otherwise forget.

Today's snippet is that I had a really nice session with middle class over two lessons; their teacher and I agreed we'd divide and conquer! During the first lesson I took six of the less able children to work on sounds - we used the wooden letters and did the 'Jolly Phonics' actions for each sound which some of them loved and caught onto well. Then we used a puzzle that I'd bought where they had to match sound and picture. The children did really well and had fun! After that I took some of the more able to do some Montessori activities on the senses - we did a listening activity and one with thermic tablets (made from different materials, some that feel warm and some cold) where they had to use a blindfold and match up the different tablets just by touch. When they'd finished I let them choose, and as I was looking at what they were doing I spotted this boy who'd found the wooden numbers and the zebras, totally unprompted, and had begun to count out the correct number of zebras for each wooden number. I was so excited!