Teach history to a 3-year-old? Yes! Guess what? It is not about dates and historical figures. This post includes ten awesome ideas to begin teaching your 3-year-old history. Montessori History emphasizes duration and passage of time works. Telling time is part of Montessori’s history area. Time is such an abstract, non-tangible idea even to us adults. […]
How to Introduce Time to a Child with the Linear Calendar
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The purpose of this Montessori history work is to introduce the calendar as a tool to track the passage of time. A linear calendar is the perfect representation of time for young children. A linear calendar is hands-on and concrete, creating a visual timeline for children to truly begin to understand the concept of time. I […]
Learn a Unique Montessori Telling Time Activity
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“How many months in a year?” I asked my five-year-old. I wasn’t trying to test his telling time abilities but it was clear that the moment has arrived to learn to tell time. “3?” He responded with zero conviction. At that moment, I knew we had some work to do. I wasn’t worried and knew […]
Easy & Fun Activity – Seasons Work for Kids
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This week I am working on Seasons Work for Preschoolers to help my boys learn the concept of the passage of time. The bigger part of the project I’ll have to share with you later once I’m closer to being done with it. In the meantime, I’ll share my seasons cards with you. I wanted it […]
Timeline of the Day Activity for Preschoolers
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We’ve begun our exploration into Montessori history and the concepts of duration and passage of time. As I mentioned last week in time telling post, history for Montessori 3 to 6-year-old children is about learning the passage of time and the duration of time. We ordered supplies to help us started on this journey. Timeline […]