The Montessori Brown Stair is work included within the Sensorial sequence. Specifically, it’s located within the visual sense of the sequence. During these works, children learn to visually discriminate between the differences between various objects. What is the Montessori Brown Stair? The work is made up of 10 brown prisms of the same length (20 …

Montessori Pre-Reading Lessons are a phenomenal way to introduce reading and writing to children. Most often children enjoy the lessons. Be sure to include beautiful, relatable materials that draw kids into the language learning. This post includes an AMS approach to the Classification by Category Pre-Reading lesson in a Montessori Early Childhood classroom. The possibilities …

Kids love Open Close trays! Some of the best Practical Life for young children are quite simple to put together. In this case, we have an “Open and Close Bottles” tray. Great for fine motor and practical life skill development, I highly recommend creating one of these activity trays as a permanent fixture in your …

Here are a few “back to the basics” Montessori Easter activities. We love to do thematic Montessori activities as you saw with our St. Patrick’s Day and Valentine activities posts. With their lovely colors and texture, we used jelly beans as our base material with which to work, which, in all honesty was a little …

Curious about the Montessori Math Activities? I thought a useful place to start would be to share the sequence of Montessori Math materials, activities & lessons that I learned in my training program. Keep in mind that this is a PATH, not linear. Some lessons (Numeration and Place Value) are given in order, while others …

In order to continue integrating Montessori at Home, I created a Fine Motor Skills Nuts and Bolts Basket. Like many of you, we carry a vision with every activity we plan. This vision doesn’t always play out. This diversion, of course, is a wonderful part of the activity, perhaps highlighting the whole point of the …