Do you remember learning grammar in Elementary school? Did you memorize the definition of a noun (” a person, place, thing or idea,”)…
Montessori Monday: The Grammar Symbols
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Primary
Montessori Monday: The Perpetual Calendar
The Montessori materials all share certain characteristics. They are beautiful and elegant by design, isolating a single concept and…
Montessori Monday: The Knobless Cylinders
A companion material to the Knobbed Cylinders, the Knobless Cylinders offer children extended practice with the relationships of height,…
Montessori Monday: The Stamp Game
Throughout the prepared environment, the Montessori materials follow a careful sequence, leading children through experiences that become…
Montessori Monday: The Snake Game
Essential in the design of Montessori materials is the need to entice the child to work. The Snake Game is a perfect example of the…
Montessori Monday: The Strip Boards
In the early Montessori materials, children explore and practice concepts through concrete, hands-on manipulatives. These materials, from…
Montessori Monday: The Land and Water Forms
Children learn concretely, adopting new concepts best when they can feel them in their hands and move them about. For some concepts, like…
Montessori Monday: The Long Chains
The Montessori Math materials offer concrete, manipulative experiences with concepts that most adults think about abstractly. Through…
Sensorial Materials: Gustatory & Olfactory Development
For tools that are so influential to our experience of the world, we tend to overlook the sense of smell and sense of taste when we think…
Montessori Monday: The Color Boxes
Children are fascinated with color, and learning to name and distinguish colors is one of those early skills parents delight in…