Planning of the Bird unit
Why a bird unit? Reason 1 - They are in an around us. So Ananya has been really interested in birds since we chanced upon a humming bird on our society walk. I showed her a short Nat-geo video on humming bird here and she has loved humming birds ever since. This is a short 2 minute video , and we do not harm our eyes at all if we see it twice a day. Please note I follow a no screen policy with A, and the child has been cooperating till now. So after we see a video we say "Bbye" to our device and move on immediately to non screen activities. She Lovved it. So, I thought I will augment her learning a bit in this direction. Reason 2 - Already completed unit on a particular bird - Penguin Another reason why we chose birds was Penguins - another bird she loves and we covered them end to end through a special unit. Montessori themes usually start like pick a piece go deep into it - and then deep dive into each component separately one by one. So extending units one after another ...