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The Third Great Lesson is fundamentally different from the Second Great Lesson. The Second Great Lesson is about the evolution of all life on Earth, it shows how life has adapted and changed over the 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history. The Third Great Lesson is not about human evolution.
I get a fair number of email questions and I spend a lot of time in these one-on-one messages crafting a meaningful response. I like being helpful, but the big downside is that only one person ever sees the response, even though many people may have the same question. I’ve gathered up some of the…
It’s been a long time since posting about the school progress. The last post was about January! This stretch has been painfully slow and stressful. I was having writers block because I didn’t know how to share about it. But I got some kind comments on the previous posts, so I’m buckling down to share…
The Fundamental Needs lesson is given to first year students in the Montessori elementary classroom. It is the first chapter of work that the child engages with in the history curriculum after The Passage of Time and it is a leitmotif throughout the entire elementary history curriculum. The purpose of this lesson is to introduce…
The names of letters are just a way for us to talk about letters. They are not related to the core skills of reading (decoding) or spelling (encoding), they are only used for talking about letters in isolation.
Montessori’s planes of development are a framework that helps us understand the different stages of a child’s growth and development. We will discuss the four planes of development, as well as the characteristics and needs of children at each stage. This information can be helpful for parents, educators, and anyone who is interested in learning more about child development.
Read on to learn more about the Montessori planes of development!
Do you have any suggestions on how to curate literature for children? And how to build literacy through them? Do you use reading comprehension questions/writing exercises?
What are your thoughts about movies in the classroom?
Is your reading program is suitable for parents with children in conventional school? Would this be conflicting or confusing for the child?
How do you use the Geography Charts?
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The Long Black Strip is a Montessori material that is used to teach children about the age of the Earth and the relative shortness of human history. It is a long, black strip of fabric that is unrolled to represent the 4.6 billion years since Earth’s formation. A small, red strip at the end represents…
Preparing your science shelves can be a lot of work. I remember in my training that these chapters were some of the hardest just because experiments take so much effort to set up. I made this page to take away some of that difficulty for you. These are the science command cards I sell. As…
Building the School We finally have “permission” to start building: We got our septic, well, and building permits. It took three months to get all of the permission slips. We needed to resubmit three times, nothing was actually changed from our initial submission, we just added more comments each time describing what the blueprints already…
