March Classroom Madness

Getting ready to start off into March, I wanted to share a few of the things I will be putting on my shelf this St. March!


I really enjoy the changing of the season and work. I'm the type of teacher that gets really bored with her classroom set up and materials, so if I get bored I know my children do also.

Here are a few items that I created for my classroom.

This is a piece of work that I made for my younger students so that they can start working on their visual discrimination. This is an extension that I placed in the Sensorial area. 

I created a counting work zero through ten with St. Patrick's Day pictures. I wanted the numeral and the name on one card with the counting pictures in the other. 

This following is for language, its a play on the Dice and Roll work we all know about. I wanted something more festive and for it to be more Montessori based Language. Most that I have seen are for sight words... which is great but I wanted different. So, I created pink, blue, and green series cards. For those who are saying "What the heck is pink, blue and green?" We like to divide language into sections pink: easiest level, consonant-vowel-consonant words (bob, sat, ran, red, etc), blue: blends that you can hear each sound and double consonants (frog, crab, bell, etc), Green: Special sounds and basically everything hard (make, church, shell, bird, rain, etc). 

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I love this shamrock 'plastic' inset. It's older and I couldn't even tell you where I purchased it but its the best. 

Pin pricking shamrocks!

This beautifully drawn rainbow is amazing. I'm not sure where I got it from because I've had it a long time but all you have to do is google "rainbow color sheets". I'm sure you can find one just like it or better! I just love this one because it's simple and straight to the point.

Practical Life, my basic life skill friend. This area saves my butt multiple times a day with children who just can't that day or children that I just can't that day with. I sound like a horrible human being, huh but let's all be honest, some days we just can't. And you know what, that's okay! Because we may be teachers but we're still humans in the end. I need my coffee each morning and some days I just need a quiet and peaceful classroom, so that I can act like the graceful Montessori teacher that I really want to be. So, here are some things I did to help engage the tiny humans and help crazy children ease into the classroom.

Sensorial bin that I made for all my seeking children. I made all the colors at home, so easy to do!

Grating nutmeg, this is a great alternative to soap, because the nutmeg smells amazing! 

Oh the joys of Montessori work!

 This is a great piece of work I found online and I just had to make for my classroom! It's super easy, just go out find a few rocks or buy them. I looked online for free clip art and found some pink series words and printed them on card stock. Then I put pink paper for backing and laminated them. I used a sharpe pen to write on the rocks and there you have it! I great piece of work for the language shelf.

I use scrape paper in my everyday life adn decided that the kids would like a change of cutting paper. This is just a fun idea for scrap paper you might have laying around your house. p.s. this was gone within a few days, I love that they all worked hard on their cutting skills building those muscles and coordination!

I made this work from just felt and printing labels. Its a little more time consuming but such a great activity for the science shelf in the classroom. The children loved using it and labeling the work.

Parts of a plant work for the science shelf that I also made from felt. I just traced the back of it and cut it out that's it!

Can you tell what we are studying! Since we are studying plants/rain forest I decided that we need a rain forest one since the children went crazy over the first two pieces I made above.