This seven page PDF file gives the complete instructions for making your own Montessori checkerboard to use in your homeschool environment or in your Montessori School! I believe that a fabric checkerboard is actually preferable to the wooden one (I’ve used both), the beads roll around a lot on the wood board which makes it somewhat frustrating to use, no such issue with the fabric checkerboard!
The instructions are complete but they do assume some level of sewing experience. This pattern is suitable for adventurous beginners and up!
This Timeline of Life has been completely redesigned to match with our current understanding of evolution. The red lines represent a simplified phylogenic layout, that is accessible to lower elementary children and exciting for upper elementary children.
The timeline covers the Precambrian to modern day and features 78 hand drawn creatures, all five mass extinctions, early mammal lineage and much more that is absent from Maria Montessori’s original timeline.
Read a full script for the Second Great Lesson to accompany this timeline on the blog.
This eight page PDF file gives the complete instructions for making your own Montessori Grammar “Boxes” to use in your homeschool environment or in your Montessori School! These mats are functionally identical to the wooden boxes and take up a fraction of the space. The quilted nature of them makes them a very attractive material that are a joy to handle and a cinch to store. I hope you love these mats!
The instructions are complete but they do assume some level of sewing experience. This pattern is suitable for adventurous beginners and up!
Twenty cards with a quote or book title taken from children’s literature. These cards are perfect for lower elementary students just starting to symbolize and need a curated set of sentences to practice.
Montessori Card set A3 for the interdependencies lesson. “Where does our clothing come from?” Sometimes called economic geography cards. This lesson emphasizes producers and is meant to show how important each individual is in the free market. Lesson plans are not included, but an answer key is.
I have modernized the producers from the original set.
The original Montessori Grammar Box material, and the card sets sold by most other shops, are based on translations Dr. Maria Montessori’s original cards that were written in Italian. This means that most other commercially available card sets are studying Italian grammar with English words.
This set by Rhyme and Reason Academy is a complete remake that properly represents the grammar of English.
A complete set of printable Montessori grammar box cards for all the activities with the grammar boxes. The set includes phrase and sentence cards with accompanying word cards. The cards are color-coded to correspond with the Grammar Mats and Grammar Filling Boxes. Available in either cursive or print.
Don’t forget to snag the free guidebook that accompanies this listing!
Montessori Card set A2 for the interdependencies lesson. “Where does our meat come from?” Sometimes called economic geography cards. This lesson emphasizes producers and is meant to show how important each individual is in the free market. Lesson plans are not included, but an answer key is.
I have modernized the producers from the original set.
Ninety Printable Sentence Analysis strips for Montessori Grammar. This work is intended for upper elementary students who have completed the Grammar Boxes.