Montessori activities to be done at home

Activity Name: Cards of Weekdays

Tools: – tablecloth – tray

            – Cards (appropriate size) with weekdays written on them.

Objective: – Knowing the weekdays, how they are written and read.

                  – Arranging the days of the week

                  – Connecting the days of the week to today’s date

                  – Knowing the number of weekdays (7 days)

Age: 4.5- 5 years

Steps:

 – Say: today we will do weekdays cards activity

– Lay the tablecloth on the table

– Bring the “Saturday” card, point to it and say: “Saturday”.

– Bring the “Sunday” card, point to it and say: “Sunday”.

– Show me Sunday card

– What day is this? Saturday

-What day is this? Sunday

– Bring Monday card, point to it and say: “Monday”

– Repeat the same steps with the rest of the week’s cards

– Remove the cards from the tablecloth in order.

Second stage:

-Today we will do the weekdays activity… and we are going to learn a new thing.

Lay the tablecloth on the table.

Put the cards on the tablecloth in order, point to each card and say: (Saturday – Sunday – Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday)

Self-correction method: none

The rest of the activity steps:

– Point at the cards and read them again

– Ask the child: “Can you show me Monday?”  Wait until the child holds the card in his hand and gives it to you.

Repeat this step with the rest of the cards, until you make sure that the child knows them well.

– Tell the child that these are the days of the week; let’s read them again: (Saturday – Sunday – Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday).

Collect the cards in order

– Say: “This is the Saturday card”, and point at Saturday in a calendar then put the card on Saturday in the calendar, and say “Saturday”.

Repeat the same step with the rest of weekdays.

– Count the days of the week and say: “There are 7 days in the week: (Saturday – Sunday – Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday).

– Ask the child “what day is this?”

The child points at the day and puts the card on it in the calendar.

– Say the date of the day and point at it.

– Collect the cards in a rubber band and put the tray back on the shelf.

– Return the calendar back to its place

– Return the tablecloth to its place on the shelf.

Self-correction method: If the calendar is numbered, match the number in the calendar with today’s date.