Fountainhead Montessori Teacher Training Academy

Word Problem for grade 2 and 3...... A Teacher has 30 candies, she wants to share equally among 5 students.How many candies each student gets.On the Board  5 green skittles represent 5 students and 30 green beads are 30 candies,  when we distribute equally  each student gets 6 candies so the answer is 6.....30÷5=6

Development of fine motor skills. 

All the teachers and Mothers always have some left over pieces of coloured paper, don't trash it.It could be extremely useful for an excellent activity for indirect preparation for writing . Just tear a small piece of coloured paper scrunch and crumple it for a Tong activity, transfer these crumpled paper balls with the help of the Tong .

Children copy adult's work. They see the adults doing  some work almost daily,   children Love to imitate and copy them for eg kneading  and rolling dough, it's a great exercise for fine motor skill development and to strengthen hand muscles for writing. When they get engaged in doing an activity that they enjoy,  they can go on and on ....as a result they achieve a higher level of concentration.