Material Description: The bells A green board with the five lines (the Stave) A board to write on marked with five parallel lines Cut out G-Clef which corresponds to the green board Nomenclature cards with a picture, label and control with picture and name of the notes, Stave and G-Clef. Prerequisite: The children must know …
The Bells
Sensorial Exploration of the Bells These are two sets of identical bells showing the Major scale of C. The compromise a set of eight bells on white stands, mirrored by eight bells on brown stands. These are ideally left out on a bells cabinet on a keyboard base. The white bells to kept at the …
Powers of Numbers
Powers, using a base of 2 Material Description: Box for Powers with a base of two: cubes and prisms coloured yellow, white, green (small 1cm cubes for the follow up work) blank tickets pencil, paper prepared tickets for follow-up work Method: Making powers Take a unit, ‘Here we have a unit, it is all …
Squares and Cubes of Numbers
Introductory Activities These activities introduce working with the squares and cubes of numbers at Elementary. Material Description: Felt mat, short chains Method: Game 1 – shapes Form chains with each short chains, beginning with the chain of three, after forming each shape ask the child to identify each shape, displaying them …
What is Montessori Education?
The classroom Montessori’s outlook was inspired by a deep respect for all aspects of life and creation, she had a holistic philosophy and was interested in the unity of the personality and the universe. She saw Education as fundamental in the formation of humans during all four planes, as a means for the personality to …
Sciences
The World of Plants (Botany) and The World of Animals (Biology and Chemistry) A plant is a living organism manufacturing its own food (autotrophic) while animals require carbon to be fixed by plants which they digest (heterotrophs). Traditionally plants are divided into ground cover or non flowering plants and seed producing and flowering plants. The …
Introduction to Music
When people sing feel free to join them because bad people do not know any songs Sound accompanies people all their lives, in individual lives and Human history from nature, the wind and water, the voices of animals, in the ‘Story of the Coming of Life’ from frogs and other animals. In modern life we …
The Imagination
In the first plane the child’s mind absorbs directly from the environment, between 0-3 the child takes in information unconsciously. Between 3 -6 years she begins to direct her conscious observation, deliberatly gathering information from her immediate environment through sensorial impressions and by interacting physically with it. Doing so she explores her physical environment and …
Social Development
Montessori, in The Absorbent Mind, Chapters 22 and 23 describes how society goes through an embryonic phase which we can follow by observing the development of small children, who, little by little children become aware of forming a working community, they come to be contributing members of a group. They are directed by an unconscious …
The Needs and Tendencies of the older child
Montessori had a very particular world view, in this she saw humans as working to satisfy their individual, spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs. Needs She sees children as motivated by their needs, which are similar to the needs adults have but also motivated towards developing themselves into adult humans and satisfying the needs of …