Montessori Numbers With Spiders

In the spirit of Halloween, we gave our numbers a theme...spiders, ants and flies.

I bought a packet of 100 from Ebay.

First Big Seed put the sandpaper numerals in order.

Then we arranged in the ants in pairs in the Montessori fashion.

We made a big spider out of a lid and pipecleaners...he was a big help and 'told him the answers'.

Then to illustrate odd and even numbers for the first time, we put the odd number spider on a lid.

This illustrated that they appear alternately.

Then we put the odd and even numerals into 2 groups.

He has learnt the concept of odd and even from this activity...

I explained that the even ones are "holding hands".

Because of the "holding hands" idea he likes this activity.

This led onto other spider activities...