Spring is a time for refreshing pretty much everything in life! How often do you switch up your Montessori shelves? By season? By theme? Here are lots of spring shelf ideas for your Montessori learnign space! I am always curious and it always amazes me how suddenly children – with a little freshening up of […]
How Montessori Teaches Math – Ten Board Lesson
Let’s take a detailed look into teaching math using the Montessori Ten Board. The Ten Boards are found within Linear Counting and come after the Montessori Teens Board lesson in the Montessori Math sequence. You can purchase a reasonably priced set on Amazon. Montessori Ten Board Lesson Presentation I – Introduction to Quantity Ask the child: “Do […]
Montessori Lesson: Learn about Golden Beads
The overview of Montessori golden beads continues the child down the path of learning place value and the decimal system. The goal for the child is to garner a sense of quantities represented in the decimal system, and to see the exchange of quantities as units become ten, tens become hundred, and so on. This lesson […]
How to Encourage Montessori Writing Development
Montessori’s approach to language development is fascinating, intriguing, and, well, effective. If you are looking for insight into Montessori writing development, you have landed in the right place. Welcome. I am going to introduce you to one of the tools to effectively learn how to teach kids to write. “Genius is eternal patience.” ~ Michelangelo […]
How to Present Montessori’s Knobbed Cylinders Lesson
Knobbed Cylinders are the first visual sense lesson within the Sensorial area of the classroom. To introduce the work, invite the child to the Sensorial area and identify the material, “These are the knobbed cylinders.” A look at Montessori’s Knobbed Cylinders There are four different blocks of knobbed cylinders. Block 1 varies in height and […]
Simple Montessori Sensorial Lesson Using a Fabric Basket
It’s very easy to create a fabric basket to use with a Montessori sensorial lesson. It’s a great sensorial and language work for your preschooler. The basket includes same size pairs of fabrics. In our case, the basket is a derivative of the traditional Montessori fabric basket. I included different fabric designs, but traditional Montessori […]