Biology focuses on the plants and animals which form part of the environment in which the over six child lives and continues to develop through experiences they have in it, when they interact with plants and animals. Montessori, in Childhood to Adolescence, says “The World is acquired psychologically by means of the imagination, reality is …
Introduction to Language
Discoveries made by children about their language Casa They discover a great deal of vocabulary through the ‘enrichment of vocabulary’ That they can make their thoughts, feelings and ideas visible to others with the Sand Paper Letters and Moveable Alphabets They can find out what other people are thinking with the use of the …
Introduction to History
History is the account of the gradual dawning of human consciousness, it is mainly unknown to us, taking place in pre-history. On a cosmic level it is the history of all the living and non-living aspects of our world, and at a personal level we have the ability to reflect on our experiences, our understandings …
Geometry Introduction
Why teach Elementary children about Geometry? The origins of geometry are useful; to help children make connections between geometry and history understanding geometry helps us to understand the child’s development; children of the first plane are not interested in the why, but in the practical, material application, absorbing the forms and shapes around them in a …
Introduction to Geography
For Montessori the focus in Geography is on the interconnectedness of human beings and life. In the second plane Geography is approached by presenting the whole universe, and in doing so inflaming the imagination and answering the questions of the reasoning mind. Wonder and curiosity are encouraged in response to creation, the forces of creation …
The Story of Communication through Signs
Setting the Scene; Remember how we talked about the creation of the Earth? And how the plants came, and frog with it’s voice, and the insects, the animals and at last, when the Earth was ready for them the Humans came. Then we had another story about the Coming of Humans, the story of the …
The Story of Geometry
Material Description: No material is needed Method: ‘This is really a story about how geometry got it’s name. We know from studies about the Egyptians that their lives centred around a very important river, the River Nile. Egypt has been called the ‘gift of the Nile’ and ‘the Mother of Geometry’. Century after century, …
Story of the God With No Hands
The Story of Creation – the first Great Story Just like now, people in the past used to wonder where things came from. They would be sitting outside, listening to all the sounds, the calling of the birds, the crashing of the waves, the whisper of the wind through the grass and they would wonder where …
The Needs of the Plants
The child explores basic Botanical facts, through the following experiments. The Needs of Plants opens up this Botany work with three experiments The Needs of Seeds/Plants (small group presentation to a group of four children) Material Description: Four shallow dishes, cotton wool, some quick sprouting seeds (cress/mustard), watering can with a rose …
The Coming of Life – Second Cosmic Story
Setting the Scene; Do you remember that we said that a very, very long time ago there was absolutely nothing at all, just immense chaos and darkness, and then, into this measureless void of cold and darkness a vast, fiery cloud which included all the stars came into being. The whole universe was in …