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Ideas for montessori style organization
Does any of you have a toy organizer like this at your home? Does this
work well? Do your kids take one container at a time and play with it and put it back in place? My kid does that at her montessori so I want to implement the same kinda system at home (thereby getting rid of the chaotic toybox). http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3357080 Thanks. |
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Ideas for montessori style organization
On 14 May 2006 18:50:51 -0700, "
wrote: Does any of you have a toy organizer like this at your home? Does this work well? Do your kids take one container at a time and play with it and put it back in place? My kid does that at her montessori so I want to implement the same kinda system at home (thereby getting rid of the chaotic toybox). http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3357080 Thanks. My dil has one like that, but I can't say that my dgs or dgd take out one toy at a time and put them back as kids in Montessori schools do. We have drawers at our house and while it helps a bit with organizing, it isn't always successful in terms of clean up with dgd. (dgs is two and autistic and we haven't had him putting away toys yet). You can also do this using bookshelves with baskets for each toy, btw. -- Dorothy There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits |
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Ideas for montessori style organization
We have one. Not quite like this one but the same idea.
I can't say it helps my kids take one toy out at a time and then put it away. I guess I don't see how that helps them learn much. We put the toys away at the end of the day. I can say that it helps *me* deal with the amount of small toys they have and where to store them. I don't mind if they mix it up when they play w/ toys .. but then again, I don't mind mixing playdough wrote in message oups.com... Does any of you have a toy organizer like this at your home? Does this work well? Do your kids take one container at a time and play with it and put it back in place? My kid does that at her montessori so I want to implement the same kinda system at home (thereby getting rid of the chaotic toybox). http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3357080 Thanks. |
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Does any of you have a toy organizer like this at your home? http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=3357080 Not exactly. Our older son had assorted plastic boxes on bookshelves. Our younger son now has one of these doohickeys from Ikea: http://tinyurl.com/7t9pt This photo shows all the boxes the same size, but in fact there are three different sizes, and Robert has at least one of each. Does this work well? Our systems have worked well. The Ikea piece looks neater, but from a practical point of view both have worked pretty much the same. Do your kids take one container at a time and play with it Nope. Though they only take out what they're playing with. It's just that sometimes, when you're six, you want to build (Lego box) a restaurant (toy food and dishes box) and you need to make menus for it (art box) and then you decide it's going to have a drive-through (car box)... And then when you're done with that, you get out your toy farm animals before you remember to clean up the restaurant. and put it back in place? This part, they do. With prompting, of course. Okay, a bit more than prompting some nights, but it does get done. My kid does that at her montessori so I want to implement the same kinda system at home (thereby getting rid of the chaotic toybox). In my experience, toyboxes are okay for a relatively small number of relatively large toys. The "toybox" we have for the outdoor toys, for instance, works very well. (It's actually one of those plastic chests for storing patio furniture cushions in. Long enough for baseball bats, deep enough for plastic backhoes, and weatherproof.) But when you start talking about Lego bricks, or Matchbox cars, or Barbie shoes, or plastic food, or whatever toy with 1000 nearly microscopic pieces your kid is in love with this month, well, a big toybox just doesn't cut it. Books, board games, and puzzles only crawl into toy boxes to die. Shelves and smaller containers are much better, both for getting out toys and cleaning them up. One thing I notice about the toy storage shelves you linked to is that the boxes are all the same size. Looking at your daughter's toys, do you think that will work? (Oh, and don't feel like a failure if your daughter doesn't bring her good Montessori habits home with her. It never seems to work that way! She'll just have to learn it at home, too.) - Cindy Kandolf, mamma to Kenneth (12) and Robert (6) ****** Bærum, Norway Bilingual Families Web Page: http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html |
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wrote in message
oups.com... Does any of you have a toy organizer like this at your home? Does this work well? Do your kids take one container at a time and play with it and put it back in place? My kid does that at her montessori so I want to implement the same kinda system at home (thereby getting rid of the chaotic toybox). I was going to get that kind for my 9-year-old, but I decided that it didn't really fit everything that I needed it too. I prefer tupperware-type containers with lids and then that way you can label the box. With beginner readers, you can put a picture and then the words on the box. I also didn't like that they don't hold the more larger, chunkier style toys. I prefer a shelf with the box with lids on the shelf for easy access. My kids have never really played with one toy at a time and then put it away. Most of the times, the toys are incorporated into each other so I didn't kill myself trying to get every toy into it's own box. -- Sue (mom to three girls) |
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"Jeanne" wrote in message ... wrote: ........ Do your kids take one container at a time and play with it and put it back in place? My kid does that at her montessori so I want to implement the same kinda system at home (thereby getting rid of the chaotic toybox). Very very few parents I know have been able to implement this system at home. The only ones I know have been Montessori teachers. My SIL has trays with toys on them which her son has to take one at a time and then put it back before getting another one. The failure often comes when a friend visits. But at least her son knows where to put the toys, so even if he doesn't follow the "put it back before getting another one" it's pretty easey to clean up afterwards. My problem with the "Getting out only one toy" method is that it tends to stifle creative play to some degree. My daughter's care bears drive the alphabet truck, swing on the fisher price little people swing and ride the horses, and live in caves formed by putting board books on their edges tent-style, and it's all unprompted play. As she gets older, she's not dumping everything out anymore randomly-she knows where things are and how to get them, but she definitely combines pieces. We have bookshelves with baskets for small toys, and "parking places" for bigger ones, and everything is labeled where it goes, and she's starting to get good at "Let's pick up all the legos and put them in the lego box", although at 18 months she's not good at LEAVING them away if she gets distracted while picking up. |
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Jeanne wrote: wrote: Does any of you have a toy organizer like this at your home? No. we have a mix of storage containers. Big rubbermaid containers to hold legos, wooden blocks or train parts (one container for each). A plastic three drawer unit for pencils and pens, blank paper and color paper. Simple bookcase (or cabinet) that held playdoh, teacup set and other little toys. I tried putting each of these on it own tray (ala montessori) but then the kids wanted to play with the trays... Does this work well? I think one reason why we didn't go with this was that all the containers are small and things just didn't fit into them (paintbrushes, bottles of paint, puzzles, paper). Do your kids take one container at a time and play with it and put it back in place? My kid does that at her montessori so I want to implement the same kinda system at home (thereby getting rid of the chaotic toybox). Very very few parents I know have been able to implement this system at home. The only ones I know have been Montessori teachers. My SIL has trays with toys on them which her son has to take one at a time and then put it back before getting another one. The failure often comes when a friend visits. But at least her son knows where to put the toys, so even if he doesn't follow the "put it back before getting another one" it's pretty easey to clean up afterwards. Personally, I enjoyed the creative play they got into with MORE than one toy out: the big blocks to build roads, the smaller ones enclosures, the farm and zoo sets to create a zoo, and the playmobile people to walk around admiring the zoo, for example. -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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