We have been trying to implement the farm Montessori material for a couple of months now but it hasn’t really taken off so it was such a surprise to watch the children engage in the activity today!

The children started by building the farm by adding in props and animals. Then they laid out all the words on the carpet beside it. They then chose from the nouns, verbs, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, pronouns, etc to form their own sentences to describe their farm!

The younger students took longer to form their sentences because they were unable to decide upon what to write but after a while, they began to create their sentences quickly. Although the students did not necessarily know what an “article” or “preposition” was, they were able to find the words accordingly.

I do not think that the children will learn the grammatical structures right away but I think that after a few more independent work sessions, they will be able to identify that the nouns are black, the adjectives are blue, the verbs are red, etc.

The students enjoyed the farm activity so much that they did not want to clean up and get ready for recess. They each took their time writing their carefully created sentences into their language arts books afterwards which allows them to look back on all the wonderful work they did later on.