Award: Your blog is fabulous!

Dobila sam nagradu Your blog is fabulous! To je kao šećer na kraju ove kalendarske godine.

Zahvaljujem kreativnoj LadyA (Škrinja kreativnosti) koja mi je dala ovu zgodnu nagradu. Ako još niste, zavirite na ovaj kreativan blog!

Ova nagrada ima samo jedno pravilo: trebate navesti tri destinacije na koje želite otputovati i napisati zašto.

Edit (2.1.2011.): Blogerica la fée papillion écolo! (čiji sam blog nedavno otkrila) mi je također dala ovu nagradu. Merci la fée papillion écolo! Posjetite njen blog Butterfly au soleil i sigurno ćete naići na nešto zanimljivo za sebe.

I won an award - Your blog is fabulous! It's like sugar on the end of this calendar year. 

Thank you to creative LadyA (Chest of creativity), who gave me this nice award. If you have not already, take a look at her creative blog! 

This award has only one rule: you must specify three destinations to which you want to travel and say why. 

Edit (02/01/2011): Blogger la fée papillion écolo! (whose blog I recently discovered) also gave me this award. Merci la fée papillion écolo! Please visit her blog Butterfly au soleil and you will surely find something interesting for yourself.

Egipat / Egypt - željela bih vidjeti tajanstvene drevne piramide i hramove moćnih faraona. / I would like to see a mysterious ancient pyramids and temples of the mighty Pharaohs.

Toskana / Tuscany - željela bih upoznati dio talijanske ljepote i umjetnosti koji se nalazi u gradovima poput Firenze,  Pise, Lucce, San Giminiana ili Siene. / I would like to see part of Italian beauty and art that are located in cities such as Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Siena or San Giminiano. 

Prag / Prague - predivan grad koji sam posjetila već dva puta, a voljela bih opet jer me jednostavno očarao. / beautiful city I have visited twice already, and I would like again because I'm simply captivated. 

Nagradu prosljeđujem ovim blogovima (budući da nema ograničenja, dala sam si oduška / since there are no restrictions, gave vent to myself):

...tres chic!, 2 Pequenos Traviesos, 5 Orange Potatoes, A Day of Wonders, A la douce, A Munchkin's World, about a girl, All Things Beautiful, Au fil des jours, Buntblume, Churumbea que algo queda!, Con la cabeza en las nubes, Counting Coconuts, Crafty Chic Mommy, Create with TLC, creatissimo, Crunchy and Green, Cvjetna vila, Descobrim el món, Dálle un colino, Ekin ve biz, Elle Belle's Bows, Fantastic hobby, Frugal Family Fun Blog, Förskoleburken, handmade beginnings, Homeschool@SG,  I can teach my child!, Izzy creations, Jada Roo Can Do, Joyful Learner, kao igra, kind over matter, L'écol'logis, LivingMontessoriNow, MAG Design, Mama Jenn, maman kangourou, Mame ne rade na "repeat", Mamma Felice, Mens Sana, Mi escuelita Montessori, Moj decoupage svijet, Moj svet, moj svijet salveta i cvijeća, Mommy Moment, Mondorfment, montessori and t, Montessori Candy, Montessori en el hogar, Montessori For Learning, Montessori Matters, Montessori Print Shop Blog, Montessori Spanish, Montessori Tidbits,  Más allá del infinito, Mädchen für alles, OGGY design, Olives and Pickles, One Hook Wonder, Paper Glitter, Peas & Thank You's, PINK SANDRA, Plavo Nebo Žuti Kamen, Real Life Montessori, Royal Baloo, Somos una familia, nos queremos mucho..., Strašilo, Suncokret, Sunrise Learning Lab, The Education Of Ours, The Homeschool Den, The Learning Ark, The Wonder Years, The Work Plan, This and that about kids..., Trillustrations, Un desert a casa, Un petit coin de ciel bleu, Walk Beside Me, Word Art World, Zondra Art, Цветна градина

Sretna Nova godina! / Happy New Year!

Puno ljubavi, srece i zdravlja u Novoj 2011. godini svim citateljima zeli Nataša

Lots of love, happiness and health in New 2011. year to all readers! 

Nataša

Naš adventski kalendar / Our Advent calendar

Ove godine je adventski kalendar u našoj sobi izgledao ovako:

This year's Advent calendar looked like this: 

Kućice sam izradila od debljeg kolaž papira prema šabloni iz časopisa. Svaka kućica ima krov koji se s jedne strane može nadignuti. Ispod krova se nalazi otvor za poruku iz adventskog kalendara:

~

I made cottages out of thick paper. I used a pattern from the magazine. Each cottage has a roof that can be raised on one side. Beneath the roof there is an opening for a message from the Advent Calendar: 

Budući da nismo imali dovoljno slatkiša ili voća koje bismo mogli staviti u kućicu adventskog kalendara (a i da djeci bude zanimljivije), svaki dan smo pronalazili poruke putem kojih smo otkrivali božićne običaje diljem svijeta. Za informacije i slikovni materijal smo iskoristili knjigu Božić u svijetu, koju sam vrlo povoljno kupila na Interliberu.
~
Since we didn't have enough candy or fruit that we could put in a cottage of Advent calendar (and to be more interesting to children), every day we are finding the message, through which we discover the Christmas traditions around the world. For information and visual material we have used the book Christmas Around the World, which I bought at a very affordable price on Interliber. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm linking up to:

SHOW AND TELL (ABC & 123)

CHRISTMAS SHARING TIME (Raising Memories)

PRESCHOOL CORNER (Homeschool Creations)

Ukrasi za božićno drvce i čestitke / Christmas tree ornaments and greeting cards

Ove godine su djeca napravila ukrase za božićno drvce od debelog kartona i tkanine. Kolegica je napravila girlandu od lika.

This year the kids made ornaments for the Christmas tree of thick cardboard and fabric. My colleague made a garland of raffia.

Djeca su ove čestitke napravila za roditelje. Ideju sam vidjela na Art Projects for Kids.
These cards children made for their parents. I got the idea from Art Projects for Kids .

I'm linking up to:

SHOW AND TELL (ABC & 123)

CHRISTMAS SHARING TIME (Raising Memories)

PRESCHOOL CORNER (Homeschool Creations)

CHRISTMAS FUN (Our Worldwide Classroom)

Srebrna i zlatna boja / Silver and gold

SREBRNO / SILVER

Razvrstavanje po boji: srebrni i bijeli pokloni

Sorting by color: silver and white packages/gifts

Hvatanje vrhovima prstiju: srebrne zvijezdice

Transferring silver stars with fingertips

Grabljenje žlicom: srebrni kamenčići

Spooning: silver stones

 ZLATNO / GOLD

Brojke i žetoni - umjesto žetona stavila sam mekane zlatne zvjezdice

Numbers and counters - I put the soft golden stars instead of the counters

Prenošenje prstima: zlatni kamenčići

Transferring with fingers: golden stones

Prenošenje pincetom: zlatne kuglice

Transferring with tweezers: golden ornaments

Razvrstavanje po boji: srebrni i zlatni mali predmeti

Sorting by color: silver and gold objects

Prošle godine napisala sam post o zlatnoj i bakrenoj boji. Možete ga pročitati ovdje.

Last year I wrote a post about the gold and copper color. You can read it here. 

I'm linking up to:

PRESCHOOL CORNER (Homeschool Creations)

PLAY ACADEMY (Nurture Store)

SHOW AND TELL (ABC & 123)

CHRISTMAS SHARING TIME (Raising Memories)

Sretan Božić / Merry Christmas

Sretan Božić svim čitateljima i sljedbenicima bloga!

Merry Christmas to all readers and followers of the blog!

Što čitamo ovih dana? - Božićne teme / What do we read these days? - Christmas theme

Ovo su slikovnice koje smo čitali u posljednje vrijeme:

We read recently these picture books in my Montessori classroom:

Uspješni ljudi i njihova povezanost s Montessori pedagogijom / Montessori famous

U predvorje "svoje" sobe sam (uz malu pomoć domara) stavila plakat s fotografijama uspješnih ljudi koji su na neki način povezani s Montessori pedagogijom. Podijeljeni su u tri kategorije: 

~

I have made a poster with pictures of successful people who are somehow connected with the Montessori pedagogy (it is in the lobby of "my" classroom) . They were divided into three categories: 

Uspješni ljudi koji su polazili Montessori vrtiće ili škole:

Some famous people who attended Montessori school as children are:

• Larry Page i Sergey Brin, suosnivači Googlea / Co-Founders of Google
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser, slikar i arhitekt / Austrian painter and architect
• prinčevi od Walesa William i Harry / Prince William, Prince Harry English royal family
• Thomas Berry Brazelton, pedijatar, pisac / noted paediatrician and author
• Anne Frank, autorica Dnevnika Anne Frank / famous diarist from World War II
• Jeff Bezos, osnivač Amazon.com-a / founder of Amazon.com 
• Jimmy Wales, osnivač i predsjednik Wikimedije / founder of Wikimedia
• Helen Hunt, glumica / Academy Award-winning actress
• George Clooney, glumac / Academy Award-winning actor
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, bivša američka prva dama / former first lady of USA
• John i Joan Cusack, glumci / actors
• Joshua Bell, violinist, dobitnik nagrade Grammy / American violinist, owner of Stradivarius violin
• Katherine Graham, predsjednica Washington Posta / former owner-editor of the Washington Post
• Dakota Fanning, glumica / actress
• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, producent, reper, modni dizajner, poduzetnik / American record producer, rapper, fashion designer
• Gabriel García Márquez, dobitnik Nobelove nagrade za književnost / Nobel Prize winner for Literature

Uspješni ljudi koji su upisali svoju djecu u Montessori vrtiće ili škole:
Famous people who chose Montessori schools for their own children:

• Cher, pjevačica i glumica / singer and actress
• Yul Brynner, glumac / actor
• Michael Douglas, glumac / actor
• Patty Duke Austin, glumica / actress
• John Bradshaw, psiholog i pisac / psychologist and author
• Shari Lewis, lutkarica / puppeteer
• Bill i Hilary Clinton, bivši američki predsjednik i aktualna američka državna tajnica / Former U.S. President and actual Secretary of U.S.

Uspješni ljudi koji su na neki drugi način povezani s Montessori pedagogijom:

Other famous people with a Montessori connection:

• Jean Piaget, psiholog; svoja prva istraživanja napravio je na djeci u Montessori školi. Također je niz godina bio jedan od glavnih članova Švicarskog Montessori društva. / psychologist; made his first observations of children in a Montessori school. He was also head of the Swiss Montessori Society for many years.
• Erik Erikson, psiholog; imao je certifikat za Montessori učitelja / psychologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate
• Margaret Woodrow Wilson, kći bivšeg američkog predsjednika; bila je educirana za Montessori odgojiteljicu/učiteljicu. U podrumu Bijele kuće, za vrijeme mandata predsjednika Wilsona, bila je uređena Montessori soba. / President Wilson’s daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. There was a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House during Wilson’s presidency.
• Bruno Bettelheim, psihoanalitičar, dječji psiholog i pisac, bio je oženjen za Montessori učiteljicu/odgajateljicu / noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher
• Alexander Graham Bell, fizičar i izumitelj; sa suprugom osnovao Montessori Education Association 1913. godine. Također su financijski podupirali ideje Marije Montessori i pomogli osnovati prvi Montessori razred u Kanadi i jedan od prvih u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama / inventor; A. Graham Bell  and his wife founded the Montessori Education Association in 1913. They also provided financial support directly to Dr. Maria Montessori and helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States.
• Thomas Alva Edison, izumitelj; pomagao u osnivanju Montessori škola / inventor; helped found a Montessori school

"I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life." 

Gabriel García Márquez (quotation from LivingMontessoriNow.com)

Popis uspješnih ljudi povezanih s Montessori pedagogijom sam pronašla ovdje i ovdje.  I found lists of famous Montessorians here and here.
Font u kojem sam pisala imena poznatih Montessorijanaca (na plakatu) je Rickles.  Font in which I wrote the names of famous Montessorians (the poster) was Rickles.

Giveaway at Montessori Print Shop!!

Montessori Print shop 12 dana dijeli nagrade čitateljima! Ako vas zanima, uključite se - nagrade su vrijedne!


12 days of giveaways at Montessori Print Shop! If you are interested, check it out!


Day #1: Montessori Phonics Language CD Rom - 108 Phonics Language Files
Day #2: Language & Math Primary Montessori Teaching Manual - 208 Language and Math lessons
Day #6: Montessori Math Materials - Addition (in pdf digital file format)
Day #7: Peace Makers & Art Cards
Day #8: Classified Cards on CD Rom (41 sets of 3-part classified cards)

Citrusi / Citrus

Kada smo najavile novu temu koju ćemo s djecom raditi u sklopu projekta o voću, roditelji su se zaista lijepo odazvali i donijeli nam razne vrste citrusa. Iskoristili smo priliku i napravili nekoliko vježbi iz praktičnog života:

~

When we announce a new theme in our fruit project, the parents have really responded well and brought us various kinds of citrus. We used this opportunity and made a couple of exercises in practical life area: 

Cijeđenje limuna / Squeezing lemons

Nakon cijeđenja limuna (ova vježba je oduševila djecu) smo napravili limunadu koju smo popili poslije ručka.

~

After juicing a lemon we made lemonade, which we drank after lunch. 

Cijeđenje naranče / Squeezing Oranges

Nakon cijeđenja naranče, djeca su pila svježi, nerazrijeđeni sok od naranče. Bila su oduševljena.

~

After juicing oranges, kids drank a fresh, undiluted orange juice. They were thrilled. 

Guljenje mandarine / Peeling mandarin

Zanimljiva aktivnost koju smo imali i prošle godine:

An interesting activity that we had last year: 

Vađenje plastičnih naranča iz vode

Ladling plastic oranges from water

Predvježba za šivanje: naranča (ova naranča je zapravo podmetač za čaše, Pack shop)

Introduction to sewing: Orange (the orange is actually a coaster, Pack Shop)

Kartice za bogaćenje rječnika

(imenovanje citrusa na karticama i učenje nadređenog pojma: citrusi)

~

Enrichment of vocabulary

(appointment of citrus on the cards and learning the superior concept: Citrus)

Kartice za čitanje i klasificiranje / 3 part cards

Slikanje s vodenim bojama: Naranče i limuni

Painting with watercolors: Oranges and lemons

I na kraju brojalica:

And in the end, nursery rhyme about the value of lemons and oranges for our health: 

Naranča i limun dobri su za nas 

kada dođe zima oni su nam spas.

Osim svega navedenog, razgovarali smo o citrusima, imenovali smo vrste citrusa, na karti smo tražili u kojim krajevima rastu - u Hrvatskoj i u svijetu, koja se jela i pića od njih spravljaju, igrali smo igre pogađanja po opipu, mirisu, tražili smo podatke o citrusima u dječjim enciklopedijama i knjigama o voću... Sve u svemu, djeca su se dobro zabavila.

~

Besides all this, we talked about the citrus, we named citrus species, we looked at the map for information in which regions citrus grow - in Croatia and worldwide, which foods and beverages can be prepared from citrus, we played guessing games by touch, smell, we searched for information about citrus in the children's encyclopedias and books about the fruit ... All in all, the kids were well entertained. 

I'm linking up to:

MONTESSORI MONDAY (One Hook Wonder)

SHOW AND TELL (ABC & 123)

PRESCHOOL CORNER (Homeschool Creations)

THE PLAY ACADEMY (Nurture Store)

FRIDAY WRAP-UP! (Little Hands, Big Work)