Montessori Mom Links of the Day

Montessori Baby Bed

• The Modern Montessori Aesthetic: Day 4. The floor bed.
  Picture of Montessori bed.
  (tags: Montessori Bed)
• Montessori, The First Year - Respect for Unique Development, The Child's Self-Respect - text
  If we provide a floor bed or mattress on the floor in a completely safe room—rather than a crib or playpen with bars—the child has a clear view of the surroundings and freedom to explore.
  (tags: Montessori bed)
• International Montessori Congress
  The low bed Montessori proposes is the true, first act of love towards the newborns! We, the people who work with children at the beginning of life, use these beds, and we can testify that newborns love them, look around with great interest, concentrate f
  (tags: Montessori bed)
• Montessori and the Child
  Montessori urged parents to modify the bedroom to make it safe for the child and yet foster her early independence. Consider a Japanese futon or a three foot mattress without the bed frame and, for the older child, a duvet to make bed-making simple for he
  (tags: Montessori bed)
• How to hush your new baby
  "Maria Montessori taught that if the child slept on a floor bed, it would foster freedom of movement and independence,"
  (tags: Montessori bed)

Montessori Elementary Science Curriculum

• Voyager Montessori Elementary School Curriculum - Science
  The first science experiments are designed to give the child the basic knowledge which will make possible the understanding of the development of the solar system, the earth and its configurations, life on earth and the needs of plants and animals.
  (tags: Montessori science)

Montessori Science

• Montessori Life: Science for Babies
  Science is an especially fascinating part of human learning from birth to three.
  (tags: Montessori science)
• Curriculum-Montessori
  Montessori science curriculum includes a sound introduction to botany, zoology, chemistry, physics, geology and astronomy.
  (tags: Montessori science)
• Imagine a School
  The Montessori science curriculum encourages hypothesizing, experimenting and observation in building a knowledge base.
  (tags: Montessori science)
• Montessori 6-9 Standards
  Skills of scientific inquiry are used to help students master the learning standards
  (tags: Montessori science)

Montessori at home blogs

• HomeSchooling Xtra » There are many misconceptions about homeschools. Some people
  The Montessori method builds on each previous lesson so that a student masters each aspect of their education before moving onto the next.
  (tags: Montessori homeschooling)
• A blog doesn't need a clever name
  physical interaction in the world facilitates cognitive development (Piaget, Montessori)
  (tags: Montessori Piaget)
• The Crib Chick: Crib Chick Still Life
  putting together a little Montessori-esque Practical Life box,
  (tags: Montessori homeschooling)

Montessori Language

• Language and Storytelling-toddler throught junior high
  : "Human intelligence today is no longer a natural intelligence but a mathematical intelligence. Without a mathematical education it is impossible to understand the progress of our time or to participate in it. In our time, a mind without mathematical cul
  (tags: Montessori language development)

Montessori Blogs

• Educating the Muslim Child » Arabic Sandpaper Letters
  Beautiful pictures of Arabic sandpaper letters!
  (tags: Montessori Muslim Arabic sandpaper letters)
• Homeschooling & Home » Sandpaper Letters
  Great lesson for teaching sandpaper letters!
  (tags: Montessori homeschooling)
• Wide Open on the Mommybahn: Mares eat oats and does eat oats
  A mom's journal using a type of Montessori infant care.
  (tags: Montessori infant baby)
• Youth Curry - Insight on Indian Youth: The right to a ‘good’ school
  Like sending your toddler to the right Montessori, so she can tell the difference between herbivore' and 'carnivore' in the interview.
  (tags: Montessori India)

Montessori Science & Lectures

• California Lectures: Additional articles
  Montessori insists that her "new" teachers accept children as they are and, as is clear from her forgoing statement this means as both natural and supernatural, as having both the laws of nature and the laws of spirit within them
  (tags: Montessori Catechesis)
• Polishing Gems - Science Task Cards - Homeschoolblogger.com
  Great Montessori Science Task Cards!
  (tags: Montessori science)
• Polishing Gems - Our Four Year Science Cycle... - Homeschoolblogger.com
  In a traditional Montessori classroom you have Botany, Chemistry, and Physics materials side by side
  (tags: homeschooling Montessori science)

Montessori Tessellations & Geometry

• Tessellations, Montessori World Educational Institute
  Montessori tessellations exercises
  (tags: Montessori)
• Geometry :: 6-9 :: Chapter One
  Montessori introduction to shapes and geometry
  (tags: Montessori homeschooling)
• Montessori Method: Chapter XIII
  Some of the Card Forms used in the exercises with the three series of cards.
  (tags: Montessori geometry)
• Montessori Life: Using the Regular and Semi-regular Solids on LookSmart Knowledge for Parents
  the icosahedron has 20 faces that are equilateral triangles. all five of these regular solids can be modeled rather easily with Montessori's Metal Insets
  (tags: Montessori geometry)

How to Read Plays

• Drama: Reading Drama
  questions you might ask when you are faced with the task of reading or writing about drama
  (tags: drama reading critique)
• Drama
  Drama is literature written for performance
  (tags: Reading drama structure)
• Keys to Reading Drama
  you must see the characters and hear their voices in your "mind's eye."
  (tags: reading drama)

Theater Education

• Children's Plays - MSSS
  Plays are great for any age group!
  (tags: Plays kids drama)
• back to syllabus
  Stage terms and vocabulary
  (tags: theater terms vocabulary homeschooling)
• Character Development
  Types of Character Development for acting lessons.
  (tags: Theater Character Development)
• Montessori Mom » Blog Archive » Readers Theater
  Theater is a great way to teach reading comprehension.
  (tags: Montessori reading theater)
• Lights, Camera, Action!
  Who needs Hollywood when you have the internet?
  (tags: Movies Drama Internet)
• MontessoriMom.com - Costumes
  Make your own costumes. You can use your imagination to make a great costume out of newspapers and shoe boxes.
  (tags: theater costumes)
• Readers Theatre Resources for Teachers and Students
  Everything you ever wanted to know about Readers Theater or Theatre
  (tags: Readers theater theatre)
• Learn Improv
  Improv Theater is not only fun, but helps with thinking skills on your feet!
  (tags: education comedy theater acting)
• ImprovComedy.Org
  Improv terms and vocabulary, history, and more!
  (tags: comedy resource theater)
• Improvisation Situations Ages Preschool through High School
  Improv ideas for all ages.
  (tags: theater improv)
• Fencing in Theatrical Fighting
  This is a favorite for theatre students.
  (tags: theater fencing combat)
• Around the World in Thirty Minutes
  written to support a second-grade unit on the countries and continents of the world
  (tags: Drama Lesson continents)
• No, You Can't Take Me!
  This game teaches confidence, pantomime, and critical thinking.
  (tags: Drama theater Lesson all ages)
• Musical Freeze Improvisations
  to introduce the idea of creating story from movement, rather than the other way around.
  (tags: Music drama lesson game)
• The Lion King's Court
  Each student chooses an animal to portray
  (tags: drama theater lesson game)
• Drama lessons -Animals
  Move around the room like a monkey, snake, elephant, lion, gorilla, crocodile.
  (tags: drama children)
• Communication-drama ideas
  "A cave dweller sees fire for the first time:...Early Forms -would work great with Montessori's Great Lesson-The Coming of Man.
  (tags: drama Coming Man Great Lesson)