Don't you just love it when a work can engage an older child and a younger child at the same time? Many Montessori materials lend themselves to work at different levels, and the Geometric Solids are a good example of that.
Imagine the "footprint" or cross section each solid makes and you can match 3-D solids to 2-D shapes. This was interesting and even a little tricky--enough so to be engaging for the older sister.
But wait--there's more!
THEN we noticed that our play food set of wooden bread, carrots, apples, etc. roughly corresponded to the shapes we were working with!
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| The solids can have different "footprints" depending upon which face they are "standing on." We only had a limited number of wooden shapes, but we could have easily cut some new shapes out of paper. |
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| We thought the avocado and pear were, roughly speaking, ovoids. |
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| By dinnertime the shadows were REALLY long! |
Interesting! Where would you suggest buying the geometric shapes?
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and there''s also Montessori n' Such. I truly cannot remember where I purchased mine!
Wow!!! I absolutely love the extensions to the Geometric solids! Also, I think that is wonderful to have siblings work together! It reminds me of how in a Montessori classroom some of the best work I would see would be when mixed age children were working together and I always loved seeing the older ones teach the younger ones! :)
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