I find that most families are very curious about what sort of "Works" their children are doing in the classroom and what exactly it is that they are learning from a particular work. The following website is a great resource for parents. It allows you to view key Montessori Works, learn the direct aim of the work and even watch a video on how the work is presented. It's fantastic! Check it out! www.infomontessori.com/index.htm
Below is the TCAPS Montessori home page. On this page is a video explaining the Primary Montessori Classroom, please check it out! www.tcaps.net/montessori
Feel free to visit this site to print off some very handy handwriting sheets. We have been practicing the student's name with one capital letter and the rest lowercase letters. I have also introduced the lowercase c.
www.handwritingworksheets.com
Below is the TCAPS Montessori home page. On this page is a video explaining the Primary Montessori Classroom, please check it out! www.tcaps.net/montessori
Feel free to visit this site to print off some very handy handwriting sheets. We have been practicing the student's name with one capital letter and the rest lowercase letters. I have also introduced the lowercase c.
www.handwritingworksheets.com
AREAS OF STUDY IN A MONTESSORI ENVIRONMENT
PRACTICAL LIFE These activities develop the muscles of the hand for writing. They also develop concentration and coordination. They develop practical skills that transfer to a child’s sense of self-esteem.
SENSORIAL These puzzle games provide children with a chance to work with dimension, color, shapes, texture, smell, sound, and sometimes taste. The senses are the direct pathway for information to the brain. These basic skills prepare the young child for reading and math.
LANGUAGE Language work gives children practice in one to one correspondence, sequencing, letter recognition, associating sound to symbol, blending sounds, building words, rhyming, word families, and sentence building. This is a daily requirement for kindergarten students, a weekly requirement for preschoolers.
MATH These activities begin with a child’s sense of one to one correspondence. They continue on to associating numeral to quantity. The Bead Chains give children an opportunity to practice skip counting, which is a precursor to multiplication. The Golden Bead materials teach an understanding of place value. These materials provide a concrete experience for adding, subtracting, and sometimes at this level, multiplication and division. This is a daily requirement for kindergarten students, a weekly requirement for preschoolers.
ART A variety of materials for coloring, cutting, drawing, and gluing are available on a daily basis. Usually a special art activity is presented weekly. This lesson is often tied to our cultural study, art history, the season or holiday, or a special technique.
WRITING Youngers practice tracing Sandpaper Letters. Eventually they try writing letters in a box filled with sand or rice. Soon their hands become stronger and more controlled by practicing making shapes with the Metal Insets. Olders practice tracing letters each day on paper. We write stories several times a week by valuing the ideas and thoughts that they put onto paper, beginning with pictures, adding words, and eventually writing sentences. These stories are kept in a writing folder and can be shared with the class.
SCIENCE Children love to learn about the world around them. They develop their observational skills by using their sense. They learn the importance of recording their observations, and begin to draw conclusions from what they observe.
HISTORY/CULTURE/GEOGRAPHY Children learn to appreciate a sense of time, differences in the way people live, and how they are affected by where they are on this planet. Maria Montessori strongly believed that an understanding and appreciation for the diversity or our world would lead to a greater chance for world peace.
SNACK Snack is an important part of our curriculum. The menu encourages healthy choices that taste good. Children have an opportunity to help prepare their snack, socialize, wash their own dishes, and prepare the table for the next person.
THE PEACE CORNER This is a place where a child can come to find peace. Sometimes children need to separate from a challenging situation and regroup. Sometimes thinking about the effects of one’s behavior leads to a change for the better. Sometimes a quiet place is all that is needed.
SENSORIAL These puzzle games provide children with a chance to work with dimension, color, shapes, texture, smell, sound, and sometimes taste. The senses are the direct pathway for information to the brain. These basic skills prepare the young child for reading and math.
LANGUAGE Language work gives children practice in one to one correspondence, sequencing, letter recognition, associating sound to symbol, blending sounds, building words, rhyming, word families, and sentence building. This is a daily requirement for kindergarten students, a weekly requirement for preschoolers.
MATH These activities begin with a child’s sense of one to one correspondence. They continue on to associating numeral to quantity. The Bead Chains give children an opportunity to practice skip counting, which is a precursor to multiplication. The Golden Bead materials teach an understanding of place value. These materials provide a concrete experience for adding, subtracting, and sometimes at this level, multiplication and division. This is a daily requirement for kindergarten students, a weekly requirement for preschoolers.
ART A variety of materials for coloring, cutting, drawing, and gluing are available on a daily basis. Usually a special art activity is presented weekly. This lesson is often tied to our cultural study, art history, the season or holiday, or a special technique.
WRITING Youngers practice tracing Sandpaper Letters. Eventually they try writing letters in a box filled with sand or rice. Soon their hands become stronger and more controlled by practicing making shapes with the Metal Insets. Olders practice tracing letters each day on paper. We write stories several times a week by valuing the ideas and thoughts that they put onto paper, beginning with pictures, adding words, and eventually writing sentences. These stories are kept in a writing folder and can be shared with the class.
SCIENCE Children love to learn about the world around them. They develop their observational skills by using their sense. They learn the importance of recording their observations, and begin to draw conclusions from what they observe.
HISTORY/CULTURE/GEOGRAPHY Children learn to appreciate a sense of time, differences in the way people live, and how they are affected by where they are on this planet. Maria Montessori strongly believed that an understanding and appreciation for the diversity or our world would lead to a greater chance for world peace.
SNACK Snack is an important part of our curriculum. The menu encourages healthy choices that taste good. Children have an opportunity to help prepare their snack, socialize, wash their own dishes, and prepare the table for the next person.
THE PEACE CORNER This is a place where a child can come to find peace. Sometimes children need to separate from a challenging situation and regroup. Sometimes thinking about the effects of one’s behavior leads to a change for the better. Sometimes a quiet place is all that is needed.
“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural
process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
~Maria Montessori~
process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
~Maria Montessori~