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 …
Introduction to Mathematics
“The abstract science of number, quantity, and space, either as abstract concepts (pure mathematics), or as applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering (applied mathematics)” Oxford Dictionary of English 3rd Edition, OUP, 2010 Mathematics makes it possible to observe, consider and appreciate parts and aspects of entities with precision, to make comparisons and establish …
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 …
Group 1: Numbers 1 to 10
Arithmetic of Variables (Group 1) The Number Rods, Sand Paper Cyphers and Number Rods and Cards form the first half of the Maths Materials for Group 1, in which the ‘Addition of Variables’ takes place The Number Rods The Number Rods are similar to the Red Rods, only here they are rendered countable by blue …
The Development of Written Symbols
Story Remember the Greek Alphabet, the story of the Ox and the House and how it all came down to us, eventually we were given the Sandpaper letters. When I told you the story I said that some people wrote on the barks of trees, some wrote on clay, others wrote on stone, some people …