Wednesday 30 March 2016

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List & Order of Introduction for Montessori Materials


A friend requested for this, and I have also wanted to do this for myself. Here is a list of the Montessori materials listed in the order of introduction according to age. It is not a full list, but cherry-picked based on what I feel are the most useful materials:

Montessori Infant Materials
  1. Sandpaper (Age 3 months up)
  2. Imbucare Box w/Knitted Ball (Age 6 months up)

Montessori Sensorial Materials
  1. Rough & Smooth Board (Age 2 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  2. Sound Cylinders (Age 2 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  3. Smelling Jars (Age 2 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  4. Fabric Box (Age 2 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  5. Geometric Solids (Age 2 up)
  6. Tasting Bottles (Age 2 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  7. Mystery Box (Age 2 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  8. Knobbed Cylinders (Age 2 up)
  9. Pink Tower (Age 2.5 up) (No need to buy, use baby toy nesting boxes)
  10. Brown Stair (Age 2.5 up)
  11. Knobless Cylinders (Age 4.5 up)
  12. Binomial Cube (Age 3 up)
  13. Trinomial Cube (Age 3 up)
  14. Power of 2 Cube (Age 3 up)
  15. Color Box 3 (Age 3.5 up)
  16. Algebraic Trinomial Cube (Age 3.5 up)
  17. Arithmetic Trinomial Cube (Age 3.5 up)
  18. Red Rods (Age 3.5 up) (No need to buy, use the Small Number Rods)

Montessori Language Materials
  1. Sandpaper Letters (Age 3 up)
  2. Metal Insets w Tracing Tray (Age 4 up)

Montessori Mathematics Materials
  1. Fraction Skittles (Age 2.5 up)(No need to buy, use the Cut-Out Labeled Fraction Circles)
  2. Colored Bead Stair (Age 3.5 up) (No need to buy, use Decanomial Bead Box)
  3. Sandpaper Numbers (Age 3.5 up)
  4. Small Number Rods (Age 3.5 up)
  5. Spindle Boxes (Age 4 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  6. Number Cards & Counters (Age 4 up)  (No need to buy, use ordinary counters)
  7. Memory Game (Age 4 up)  (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  8. Decimal Quantity Tray (Age 4 up)  (No need to buy, the Golden Bead Materials) 
  9. Large Number Cards (Age 4 up)  (No need to buy, print them from the net)
  10. Decimal System Tray (Age 4 up)  (No need to buy, the Golden Bead Materials) 
  11. Golden Bead Materials (50 units, 10 squares, 9 cubes) (Age 4 up) 
  12. Bead Cabinet (Cubes, squares, chains) (Age 4 up) 
  13. Constructive Triangles – Triangle Box (Age 4 up) 
  14. Constructive Triangles – Rectangle Box (Age 4 up) 
  15. Constructive Triangles – Blue Rectangle Box (Age 4 up) 
  16. Constructive Triangles – Large Hexagonal Box (Age 4 up) 
  17. Constructive Triangles – Small Hexagonal Box (Age 4 up) 
  18. Table of Pythagoras (Sensorial Decanomial) (Age 4 up) 
  19. Decanomial Bead Box (Age 4.5 up)
  20. Teen Bead Hanger (Age 4.5 up)
  21. Teen Board (Age 4.5 up)
  22. Ten Board (Age 4.5 up)
  23. Hundred Chain (Age 4.5 up) (No need to buy, use the Bead Cabinet)
  24. Hundred Board (Age 4.5 up)
  25. Metal Fraction Circles (Age 4.5 up)
  26. Short Bead Chains (Squares) (Age 5 up) (No need to buy, use the Bead Cabinet)
  27. Thousand Chain (Age 5 up) (No need to buy, use the Bead Cabinet)
  28. Plus & Equal Symbol (Age 5 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  29. Addition Board (Age 5 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  30. The Stamp Game (Age 5 up)
  31. Minus Symbol (Age 5 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  32. Subtraction Board (Age 5 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  33. Long Bead Chains (Cubes) (Age 5.5 up) (No need to buy, use the Bead Cabinet)
  34. Addition Snake Game (Age 5.5 up) (No need to buy, use the Elementary Negative Snake Game)
  35. Addition Strip Board (Age 5.5 up)
  36. Addition Working Charts (Age 5.5 up) 
  37. Subtraction Snake Game (Age 5.5 up) (No need to buy, use the Elementary Negative Snake Game)
  38. Subtraction Strip Board (Age 5.5 up)
  39. Subtraction Working Charts (Age 5.5 up) 
  40. Color Chips (Age 5.5 up)
  41. Multiplication Symbol (Age 6 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  42. Multiplication Bead Board (Age 6 up)
  43. Multiplication Snake Game (Age 6 up)(No need to buy, use the Elementary Negative Snake Game)
  44. Multiplication Working Charts (Age 6 up)
  45. Pythagoras Multiplication Board (Age 6 up)
  46. Division Symbol (Age 6 up)(No need to buy, make it yourself)
  47. Division Bead Board (Age 6 up) (No need to buy, use the Long Division (Racks and Tubes))
  48. Division Working Charts (Age 6 up)
  49. Small Bead Frame (Age 6.5 up) (No need to buy, use the Large Bead Frame)
  50. The Dot Game  (Age 6.5 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself using Excel)
  51. Power of 2 Cube (Age 7 up)
  52. Power of 3 Cube (Age 7 up)
  53. Large Bead Frame (Age 7 up)
  54. Multiplication Checker Board (Age 7.5 up)
  55. Multiplication Decimal Checker Board (Age 7.5 up)
  56. Long Division (Racks and Tubes) (Age 7.5 up)
  57. The Elementary Negative Snake Game (Age 9-12)
  58. Decimal Fraction Board (Age 9-12)
  59. Cut-Out Labeled Fraction Circles (Age 5 up) (No need to buy, make it yourself)
  60. Introduction to Types of Angles (Age 9-12)
  61. Yellow Area Material (Age 9-12)
  62. Small Square Root Board (Age 9-12) (No need to buy, use the Wooden Peg Board with Pegs)
  63. Wooden Peg Board with Pegs (Age 9-12)
  64. Patterns of Square Root (Age 9-12)

Monday 28 March 2016

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J Summary (7Y0M23D): Playing with Marble Run


28 March 2016 (7Y0M23D): Ever since Joshua started primary school, he hasn't had time to play with this toys. Kids are just like us adults, with a heavy schedule. 


It is a holiday today, and in between going to a birthday party, it is nice to see him taking iniative taking out his toys and playing with them. We were supposed to do Chinese, but I relented and decided not to interrupt his play.

At this age, he needs less and less assistance. He is just building it on his own.

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Danfoss Universe Science Park



We decided to visit the Danfoss Universe Science Park during this Easter vacation.

We have been very fortunate with the weather, as it had been raining the day before and after we were at the park. As such, we spent most our vacation visiting restaurants, instead of being outdoor.

Daddy FECS brought for a treat at a very nice gourmet restaurant as the first stop the evening before:

Restaurant Bind








Rocking baby teeth... soon a visit from the Tooth Fairy








 


Meeting Pixeline when the park opens at 10am



Trying out the fighter jet




The Blue Cube




The Ice Element



The Water Element


Daddy trying the Segway for the first time



Energy House





The Robert Robot Show


The Drone bane


The helicopter simulator


The Science Show



The excavator machine





Energy Labs




The soap bubbles







Explorama



Building cube



I completed the Maths puzzle





Pixeline Land





Making rocket workshop







Filling water into the rocket


Launching the rocket






J's rocket flew 30m, and he got this certificate


Waterworks







An inverted growing tree


Danfoss Mads Clausen Museum


Lift-a-Car


At a traditional Danish restaurant, Den Gamle Kro, in the countryside at Gråsten



At the restaurant, Spisehuset, at Faaborg







Map of the Park


Overall, it is a decent park, but we won't be coming back. We will not be recommending to specially visiting this park. The Science show is rather ordinary, it seems to be the same Science experiments from the Science center Experimentarium in Copenhagen. There were also not much interaction, compared to the ones we saw before such at Magic Science during the Science fair in Copenhagen. It is a god park to visit, if you live near to it, but not worth the effort to drive all the way from Copenhagen, unless you are visiting south Jutland anyway. 

It is not as exciting as Disneyland, so everything is relative. We would save the money for visiting Disneyland or Legoland.

References:
http://www.sjovforborn.dk/detail.asp?I=1&OID=262

http://www.tripadvisor.dk/Attraction_Review-g227597-d1024898-Reviews-or30-Universe-Soenderborg_South_Jutland_Jutland.html#REVIEWS
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