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Montessori at Home – The Culture and Language Basket

August 25, 2011 by 7 Comments


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In our Reading Corner we created a Language and Culture Basket. At some point, this concept will be integrated into our impending Continent Boxes.

For now, though, the basket is situated in the activity area, next to a bookshelf, rocking chair and bean bag. The basket includes several books geared towards teaching kids Mandarin, a Chinese nursery rhyme book, a book about the world, Toot & Puddle’s Top of the World book, a guide book that accompanied an education Mandarin DVD and an extensive Chinese vocabulary book.

I also have a World Placemat that I absolutely adore from Crocodile Creek and a simple print out of China or Asia. These maps are a bit advanced for a preschooler but they still provide a great visual for our little sponges. I’d like to find a clean and neat way of placing them on the wall by his basket.

This learning area will certainly evolve over time. I can’t wait to see how it transforms with our learning and my sons’ development!

Thanks for reading!
Marnie

Montessori at Home The Culture and Language Basket

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Marnie Craycroft

Founder, Publisher, Writer & Editor at Carrots Are Orange, Inc.
Marnie began Carrots Are Orange in 2010 after the birth of her first son. Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori inspired homeschooling blog for parents and educators. She hails from Maine, a wonderfully down to earth place to grow up. Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999, currently living in Seattle with her husband and two young boys. She is pursuing Montessori certification.
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  1. Ewa Kamińska says:
    August 31, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    I like your basket idea. We have a whole shelf dedicated to the particular culture studied at the moment and it works well ;-)

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  2. Deb Chitwood says:
    September 1, 2011 at 1:19 am

    I love your culture and language basket, Marnie! It’s great that you can easily change it according to themes you’re studying and your children’s developmental levels. Thanks for linking up with Montessori Monday. If you could add the Montessori Monday button, that would be awesome! I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page.

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  3. Melissa says:
    October 23, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    I love it! I need to get the Montessori Carpets going in our home to define work spaces too. Your picture reminded me of that!
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  4. Melissa says:
    October 23, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    I apologize. I’m not sure why I have a link attached to my comment above (it seemed to do it on it’s own). I have been trying to delete it b/c I didn’t intend for it to be there. I was commenting to comment on your blog – not to leave a link to mine!

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    July 27, 2012 at 4:04 am

    [...] and mandarin into our home. One easy way to integrate language and culture is with a simple “language and culture basket” placed in a play space. We have had great fun learning about Irish culture and Mexican [...]

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