Montessori on a Budget

Montessori for the Earth (previously Montessori on a Budget) offers affordable 24/7 online access to Montessori for infants, tots, toddlers, preschool, Kindergarten, and or lower elementary children! Created by Montessori trained 3 to 6 and 6 to 9 teacher and mom, Lisa Nolan.

Subscriptions include 24/7 access to:

• Montessori lesson activities, articles/documents, picture galleries, and ebooks.
• Over 75 Montessori YouTube videos (by recommended Montessori teachers and moms), PLUS two or more YouTube video recommendations are added each month.
• Private, subscribers-and-members-only Montessori blog (weekly posts) by Lisa Nolan (including deals and steals--free or low cost printables, materials, or activities).
• Private, subscribers-and-members-only Montessori podcast (weekly audio/MP3s), hosted by Lisa Nolan.
• Two new lesson activities, articles,documents, and or audio MP3s are added each month (for language, social grace and courtesy, art, music, and Montessori philosophy and methodology)! 

"I am so impressed with your work! What a treasure trove you have shared with me. I feel excited to go through it all and I am relieved that I can stop searching around the blogosphere to figure things out!"--Aylin (Military family)

What's included for infants and tots birth to 24 months old:

• Website access to 50 Montessori lesson activities for 0 to 24-month-olds, including un-toys using upcycled and recycled materials and items from around the house. Most lesson activities have pictures, some have picture galleries (multiple pictures or photos), and others are text only. The lesson activities are easy to download and save to your computer. Some of the lesson activities can be handmade or prepared with materials from home, others can be bought at Montessori suppliers.
• Website access to infant tot articles including: The Absorbent Mind & Sensitive Periods in a Nutshell; Fine Motor Development; How to Place Activities in the Environment; Language Development 0 to 12 Months; Modifying Toys in the Environment; Rotating Activities in a Nutshell; Siblings and Lessons in a Nutshell; and Siblings Working Together. The articles are easy to download and save to your computer. 
• Website access to resources for infant sleep; links to infant tot YouTube clips; and links to other Montessori and related infant tot blogs, websites, and articles.

Birth to 24 months articles:

• The Absorbent Mind & Sensitive Periods in a Nutshell: "In the first six years of a child’s life her mind is like a sponge, an absorbent mind, taking in everything in the environment with energy and enthusiasm through Sensorial exploration, touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing, and the use of hands-on activities. This absorbent mind creates a natural drive that supplies the infant..."
• Fine Motor Development: "In Montessori infant development, emphasis is placed on the use of the hands as an extension of brain development (hand-eye coordination, hand-brain coordination) beginning in the first few months of life and continuing on into infancy and well into the toddler and preschool years, as the brain continues to grow and develop. An infant, when grasping an object for example..."
• How to Place Activities in the Environment: "To place activities for your baby in the environment, all you need is some floor space in each room, a long side a wall, for your baby to crawl to (or sit them next to) and to choose from. (A small light shelf might not be practical at this time as babies will start to pull up to kneeling/standing and will pull the shelf down upon them.) Each activity should be..."
• Language Development 0 to 12 Months: "Abstract thought is developed with the help of hand-eye-brain coordination, interaction with the environment, and the baby's first language experiences. Exposure to language early on in a child's development is vital: through gestures, body language, facial expressions, and the sound of the human voice. In the first few months the baby will..."
• Modifying Toys in the Environment: "You can modify many of the toys in your baby’s environment. For example, if you have a shape sorter, take the top off and use it as a box to hold the shapes. At first, your baby will..."
• Rotating Activities in a Nutshell: "Your baby will soon get bored with the same objects, so starting at age 12 months you will want to rotate the objects and toys in the environment. (This is contrary to the 2 1/2 to 6 environment where activities stay in the environment and are repeated!) To do this..."
• Siblings and Lessons in a Nutshell: "You can give your older child a lesson in the morning, while your younger child.."
• Siblings Working Together: "Children, especially siblings, are very social! When we had siblings at school, they always played together, at least when first arriving at school. This will most likely be the choice of siblings, to play and work together: it is a natural urge, and they are close enough in age that they can play together. In a Montessori home environment, if you have multi-age siblings from birth to three, you need to..."
• Infant Visual Interactions: Stimulate your baby to look at, focus, and  concentrate her vision on objects, drawings, and pictures; teach object permanence and self awareness.

Birth to nine months activities:

• Songs and Nursery Rhymes: Language and auditory development.
• Tracking: Develop visual focus on various shapes and colors. 
• Grasping: Focus visually on shapes and colors to develop hand-eye coordination.
• Rolling Over: Coordination, focus on body movement. 
• Tactile: Sensorial, tactile focus on objects and human faces to develop sense of touch, and experience of different textures.
• Single Object Cognition: Introduces color and shape awareness, enhances curiosity, and develops motor and concentration skills.
• Infant Social Interactions: Develop concept of self (apart from mom) and ability to focus on others through cooperation and taking turns.
• Names of Single Objects: Teach new words and help develop vision and concentration skills.
• Parts of the Face Language: Develop social skills, sense of self (apart from mom), and awareness of the body; increase and develop vocabulary.
• Fun With Fabrics: Encourage exploration using vision and fine motor skills, develop sense of touch.
• Reading to Infants: Identify a familiar object in a book; visual, fine motor, and  language development.
• Sound Bottles: Build fine motor skills, early language and auditory development. 
• Object Location: Develop object permanence.
• The Treasure Basket: Promote independence, enhance curiosity, and develop focus and concentration.
• Pot & Utensils: Develop auditory discrimination and  fine motor movement (hand and eye coordination).

Birth to nine months FAQs:

• I need some advice in arranging the environment for two six-month-old baby girls...
• My son flips and turns during his diaper changes and fusses when I put clothes on him... any suggestions?
• What about a baby who is constantly throwing things on the ground? How can Montessori methods be applied?
• Time Line of Development for 0 to 6-Month-Olds: 1 Week: Hands can make a fist; flings arms and legs; wiggles, kicks, and twitches; moves head from side to side; lies on tummy like a frog (arms and legs tucked in); no head-neck control when held or picked up; sees light and dark images eight inches from eyes; becomes quiet when held, “swaddled” in a blanket, or allowed to suck on your finger or a pacifier; exhibits “rooting” behavior (search sucking with mouth for breast); will feed 7-8 times in 24 hours; will take 5-6 naps and sleep 18-20 hours a day. 1-3 Weeks: Infant will...
• Highlights and Considerations for the Infant of 3-6 Months: By six months of age, your baby may be showing a preference for a certain object, like a favorite blanket, stuffed animal, doll, or (in one mom's case) a rattle sock with a stuffed bug at the end. This object will become known as your baby's security object (or lovey). At the age of three, four, and five months you can...

Nine to 15 months activities:

• Hide an Object: Reinforces object permanence, a cognitive skill.
• Pincer Grasp: Develops visual perception, focus, and concentration.
• Working on a Bench at a Table: Indirect preparation for Montessori lessons and activities.
• Noise Makers: Auditory and early language development and fine motor skills.
• Placing Spoons in a Bowl: Develops fine motor and future sorting and counting skills.
• Rhythms: Experience rhythms in songs, develops listening skills.
• Exploring Various Food Textures: Develops hand and eye coordination and visual perception.
• Scarf Game: Social development through cooperation (playing a game), coordination and balance control.
• Language With Feeding Objects: Motor and cognitive development, indirect preparation for putting activities away.
• Warm and Cold: Language expansion, experience and develop sense of temperature.
• A Language Game With Object Descriptions: Practice listening skills, develop concentration skills.
• Putting In and Taking Out: Teaches sorting skills; coordination of hands and eyes (hand-eye skills).
• Putting In and Taking Out Sequence
• Make Your Own Shape Sorter

Nine to 15 months FAQs:

• We have a crib mattress, and I am aware of the Montessori method of putting the mattress on the floor.... I wonder if my child would stay in bed, or if I'd have her playing around in her room until midnight. Should we just move the mattress in and see what happens?
• Do you recommend having activities out in several rooms (i.e. kitchen, living room, her room)?
• The 12 to 15-Month-Old: "Your 12 to 15-month-old will spend 80% of his time interacting with his physical environment. He wants to listen to, look into, and manipulate everything. He will..."
• Tips for 9 to 12-Month-Olds

15 to 24 months activities:

• Fun Paper: Teaches art and practical life skills, fine motor development, hand-eye coordination.
• Stacking: Indirect preparation for nesting and block play, coordinating fine and large motor movements, balancing.
• Objects In Lidded Container and Make Your Own: Early practical life skills, teaches object permanence, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor development.
• Pulling Objects From Lidded Containers: Early practical life skills, teaches object permanence, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor development (pulling).
• Beginning Counting: Listening skills, beginning rhythm and  counting skills.
• Mystery Bag: Develop stereognostic sense, line up objects from left to right, (pre-reading skill).
• The Nature Basket:  Practice large and fine motor movement (walking, bending, grasping, holding…), promote focus and concentration, and develop language.
• Nesting: Early Sensorial activity for fine motor development and visual discrimination.
• Open & Close Boxes and Lids: A practical life activity for fine motor movement development.
• Sponge: Early practical life experience using sponge, water, and squeezing with hands, visual and fine motor development. 
• Water Pouring: Early practical life experience with water, develops hand-eye coordination.
• Wipe Your Nose: Fine motor development and independence, care of self.

15 to 24 months FAQs and articles:

• With meals, when should I start with the whole place mat, plates and utensils?
• Do you work on activities one per day repeated over a week, till baby masters it, then you move to the next one? Or do you do more than one per day?
• Do you recommend having activities out in several rooms (i.e. kitchen, living room, her room)?
• I do have a question regarding the rugs or mats. I have read about them in certain books and have received catalogues that sell them. Should they be a certain color?
• How many lessons should I present during a day? And many, many more!
• Your 15 to 18-Month-Old in a Nutshell: The 15 to 18-month-old continues to be sensorial in his learning, through the use of his hands and mouth, examining things and their different qualities. He will also...
• Outline of Your Tot 18 to 24 Months Old: Active and inquisitive. Communication and fine motor skills are...

Cost/payment and syllabus/lesson samples here

What's included for two- to three-year-olds:

1. Website access to documents & articles on:

• how to start, where to begin
• frequently asked questions about how to create a Montessori home environment
• creating activities
• observing your child in the Montessori environment
• get free or cheap materials for making activities
• supplies and a must-have Montessori materials lists
• recommended book list
• storing materials & activities
• creating a budget
• forums and blogs to join for support
• suggested weekly and monthly timelines.

2. Website access to links to affordable and free public Montessori material PDF downloads (when applicable)

3. Website access to Montessori lesson activities in Practical Life, Sensorial, Zoology, Science, Art, Language, Math, Geography, and Social Grace & Courtesy.

Most lesson activities have pictures, some have picture galleries (multiple pictures or photos), and others are text only. The lesson activities and articles are easy to download and save to your computer. Some of the lesson activities can be handmade or prepared with materials from home, others can be bought at Montessori suppliers.

4. Montessori articles & FAQs included:

• Absorbent Mind: "From birth to six is the stage of the absorbent mind. This is the type of mind with which the human baby, shortly after birth, starts taking in and absorbing the environment in which he finds himself. This is very different from the adult mind. The absorbent mind [of the child from birth to six] is..."
• Circle Time: "At the beginning, circle is simple. Towards the end of the year, it becomes richer and more complex.... One thing remains constant in all these circles--it is the..."
• Daily Routine
• The Home Preschool: "The materials you can start with are simple toys, practical life and sensorial materials: also toys, books, simple puzzles, and books that are familiar to the child. Slowly and gradually the young child will be weaned from them and intrigued by more challenging materials. But in the beginning give him..." 
• The Human (Physical) Embryo: "Montessori says the spiritual expresses itself in the physical. Thinkers in every age have been struck by the astonishing fact that a being which at first does not exist should become a man or a woman able to think and to have ideas of his own. The infant starts from..."
• Independently Working: "Young preschoolers will be exploring their environment sensorially and there are projects you can make for them to do while you work with an older child. The key to it is to have..."
• Indirect Preparation: "We all learn according to what we already know. One sees, hears, and understands according to what one already knows. Whenever is printed on the subconscious experiences and will determine our reactions, and are a way of handling future experiences. This is the..."
• The Montessori Adult: "Consistency and continuity are the backbone of the Montessori environment. They are the order which brings security and allows the child to really unfold. The adult’s role in general is to..."
• Movement and Independence: "The moment [a child] is born he starts to move independently, and in order to reach independence he has to keep on moving. There are two types of movement..."
• Nurturing the Child's Home Environment: "The first step is to prepare the child's environment in such a way as to allow your child easy, safe access for both getting out and putting away her belongings, including..."
• The Sensitive Periods: "The sensitive periods are transitory periods in the child's life during which time she is prompted by an inner urge to focus her attention on certain elements in her environment. The activities and impressions resulting from this activity help the child to..."
• Siblings and Lessons, and Siblings Working Together
• Social Grace & Courtesy: Conflict Resolution; Care of the Environment FAQs; Discipline FAQs.
• The Three Period Lesson: "The Three Period Lesson is a way to present and introduce concepts and new terminology, or the names of  things, to a child: new sounds (letters), numbers (symbols), geometric shapes, colors, and geography forms (like the land and water forms or the continents). It is also a way to..." 

          FAQs:

• My two-year-old seems interested in new activities, but then she will swat at the materials, sweeping everything off the table or across the floor. Do you know what this might mean? Or do you have any suggestions for me on this behavior?
• How do you tell if my toddler has mastered an activity?
• When do other toddlers...recognize individual letters? Should I be working on that? Is it too early to start with sandpaper letters and phonics?
• I'm having some difficulty encouraging my 27-month-old to stay engaged in one activity after introducing it. What do I do?

5. Lesson activities included:

Practical Life:

• Open and Close Zips and Snaps
• Open & Close
• Sponging
• Cleaning Spills
• Sweeping
• Putting on a Coat
• Dry Pouring Into Bowl
• Large Scrubbing
• Small Scrubbing
• Cheese Cutting
• Pouring
• Water Pouring
• Advanced Pouring
• Spooning
• Tonging 
• Tea Party
• Washing a Table
• Washing a Window
• Using Mats/Rugs in the Classroom

Sensorial:

• Sort Silverwarer
• Sorting Large Objects
• Sorting Small Objects One and Two including Button Sorting and Bead Sorting
• Match Fabric
• Froebel Bag
• Geometric Solids Intro
• Geometric Solids and Bases
• Cylinder Blocks
• Advanced Cylinder Blocks
• Color Box 1
• Color Box 2
• Thermic Tablets
• Pink Tower
• Brown Stairs
• Touch (Tactile) Boards
• Touch (Tactile) Tablets

Zoology:

• Feeding Fish
• Insect Matching
• Introduction to Animals
• Classify Animals

Science:

• Boats Experiment
• Bubbles and Air One and Air Two Experiments
• Sink and Float

Art:

• Simple Toddler to Threes Art Projects
• Metal Insets (beginning drawing of geometric shapes)
• Clay
• More Art

Language:

• Beginning First Sounds
• The Classified Picture Cards
• I Spy Game
• Sand Paper Sounds/Letters
• Write Sand Paper Sounds/Letters

Math:

• Early Counting with Objects
• Home-made Counting
• Number Rods--math counting 1-10
• Sand Paper Numbers 1-9
• Spindle Boxes--math counting 0-9
• Color Bead Stair--math counting 1-9

Geography:

• Land and Water Forms
• Land and Water Forms Match to Cards
• And How to Make
• Land and Water Globe
• World Globe or Color Globe

Social Grace & Courtesy:

• Conflict Resolution including Social Grace and Courtesy
• Care of the Environment FAQs
• Discipline FAQs

Cost/payment and syllabus/lesson samples here

Photo credit: theloushe via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND

"Thanks for the excellent lessons! They are super. Just the sort of thing we will really enjoy. Wow, a Montessori teacher AND a mind reader!  :) " Monica

What's includes for four- to five-year-olds:

• Montessori Pre-K and Kindergarten lesson plans and PDFs (Sensorial, Practical Life, Language, Math, and Geography)
• Montessori articles including Creating a Montessori Classroom/Environment In a Nutshell; Montessori Environment Shelves; The Montessori Adult; and The Three Period Lesson
• Resources for what to buy or download, and where.  
• Password protected picture galleries
• Suggested monthly time lines
• Outlines with time lines for: The Study of Artists and Their Art; Women Artists, and The Study of Art Styles; The Study of Musical Composers and Their Music; and The Study of Aesop's Fables.

Activities: Most lesson activities have pictures, some have picture galleries (multiple pictures or photos), and others are text only. The lesson activities are easy to download and save to your computer. Some of the lesson activities can be handmade or prepared with materials from home, others can be bought at Montessori suppliers.

1. Sensorial activities:

• Geometric Cabinet Puzzle Shapes
• Smelling Bottles
• Sound Cylinders
• Thermic Bottles
• Geometric Cards

2. Practical Life activities:

• Snaps
• Buttoning
• Cut Faded Flowers
• Weeding
• Sewing in a nutshell

3. Language 4-Year Olds:

• Movable Alphabet (spelling)
• Intro to Writing
• Writing On the Line
• Learning to Write Your Name
• Tracing

4. The Study of Aesop's Fables

5. Language 5-Year Olds:

• Dictation and Phonograms--writing/spelling
• Introduction to Reading
• First Reading Lesson with Object Box
• Reading Tablets/Cards
• Labeling--writing/spelling

6. Math activities:

• Cards & Counters--1-10
• Counting 11-19 with Teen Beads
• Counting 11-19 with Teen Boards and Combine with Teen Beads
• Counting 20-99 with Ten Beads & Boards

7. Geography activities:

• Animals of the World (continents)
• People of the World
• Continent Puzzle Maps

Articles:

• Absorbent Mind: "From birth to six is the stage of the absorbent mind. This is the type of mind with which the human baby, shortly after birth, starts taking in and absorbing the environment in which he finds himself. This is very different from the adult mind. The absorbent mind [of the child from birth to six] is..."
• Daily Routine and Circle Time
• The Home Preschool: "The materials you can start with are simple toys, practical life and sensorial materials: also toys, books, simple puzzles, and books that are familiar to the child. Slowly and gradually the young child will be weaned from them and intrigued by more challenging materials. But in the beginning give him..."
• The Human (Physical) Embryo: "Montessori says the spiritual expresses itself in the physical. Thinkers in every age have been struck by the astonishing fact that a being which at first does not exist should become a man or a woman able to think and to have ideas of his own. The infant starts from..."
• Independently Working: "Young preschoolers will be exploring their environment sensorially and there are projects you can make for them to do while you work with an older child. The key to it is to have..."
• Indirect Preparation: "We all learn according to what we already know. One sees, hears, and understands according to what one already knows. Whenever is printed on the subconscious experiences and will determine our reactions, and are a way of handling future experiences. This is the..."
• The Montessori Adult: "Consistency and continuity are the backbone of the Montessori environment. They are the order which brings security and allows the child to really unfold. The adult’s role in general is to..."
• Montessori Environment Shelves
• Nurturing the Child's Home Environment: "The first step is to prepare the child's environment in such a way as to allow your child easy, safe access for both getting out and putting away her belongings, including..."
• The Sensitive Periods: "The sensitive periods are transitory periods in the child's life during which time she is prompted by an inner urge to focus her attention on certain elements in her environment. The activities and impressions resulting from this activity help the child to..."
• Siblings and Lessons, and Siblings Working Together
• The Three Period Lesson: "The Three Period Lesson is a way to present and introduce concepts and new terminology, or the names of  things, to a child: new sounds (letters), numbers (symbols), geometric shapes, colors, and geography forms (like the land and water forms or the continents). It is also a way to..."

Resources:

• Setting up a Montessori environment
• Frequently asked questions about how to create a Montessori home environment
• Creating activities
• Observing your child in the Montessori environment
• Get free or cheap materials for making activities
• Supplies list and a must-have Montessori materials list
• Recommended Montessori book list (with personal reviews from me)
• Storing materials & activities
• Creating a budget for materials & activities

Cost/payment and syllabus/lesson samples here

"I'm thrilled to have found your resources. Your material is fantastic!  I have 5 & 8 yr old boys who have been in Montessori school since age 3. I can't afford it any more so they are at home this year."J. P.

1. Language, grammar, and function of words:

• Phonograms Part One
• Capital Letters
• Cursive
• Article Game
• Noun & Adjective Game with Farm Animals
• Logical Adjective & Noun Game (adjective relations to the nouns)
• Detective Adjective Game with Triangles
• Phonogram Word Lists Part Two
• Poetry Basket
• Simple Punctuation
• Making Simple Sentences
• Writing a Simple Essay
• Conjunction Game with Roses
• Preposition Games with Roses and Farm Animals
• Verb Game
• Verb Command Cards & Function of the Verb (moving towards interpretive reading)
• Different Aspects of the Verb, exercises with verb tenses
• Adverb Game
• Logical Adverb Game
• Journal Writing One, Two, Three, Four: keeping a daily journal for writing practice
• Advanced Phonograms
• Story about reading: "A Pair of Spectacles"
• Introduction and Technical Presentation of The Secret Message (a reading exercise)
• Two Different Levels of Reading (words and sentences and logical reading)
• Reading Level, Words Activities
• The Function of Words * Grammar for Reading and Writing Introduction
• Nouns: Function of the Noun, The Noun Family, and The Multitude Story (the meaning of nouns)
• Definite and indefinite articles with article box activities including writing labels
• The Verb Family: verb, adverb, pronoun; and VF charts
• A World of Grammar: conjunction & preposition
• Interjection, an Introduction
• Function of the Interjection: activities, name and etymology and symbol
• The Grammar Boxes, an Introduction
• The Noun Grammar box

2. Math:

• Introduction to Math (brief review for 3-6)
• Introduction to Golden Beads 1-1000
• Introduction to Symbols 1-9000
• Golden Beads & Symbols (Function of the Decimal System & Symbols)
• Formation of Complex Numbers with Golden Beads and Symbols
• Simple Addition with Golden Beads
• Addition or Positive Snake Game
• Addition Strip Board
• Subtraction Simple with Golden Beads
• Addition Charts
• Subtraction Negative Snake Game
• Subtraction Negative Strip Boards
• Subtraction Charts
• Carrying
• Dynamic Addition with Golden Beads
• Dynamic Subtraction with Golden Beads
• Skip Counting
• Subtraction Stamp Game
• Subtraction in Stages
• Cube Chain of Five
• 100 Chain
• 1000 Chain
• The Stamp Game
• Simple Addition with the Stamp Game
• Simple Subtraction Stamp Game
• Dynamic Addition with the Stamp Game picture gallery here
• Dynamic Subtraction with the Stamp Game
• Multiplication Tables with Colored Beads
• Multiplication with Golden Beads
• Dynamic Multiplication with Golden Beads
• Simple Division with Golden Beads
• Multiplication with the Stamp Game
• Dynamic Multiplication with Stamp Game
• Multiplication Board
• Multiplication Charts
• Dynamic Division with Golden Beads
• Long Division with Golden Beads
• Short Bead Frame
• The Dot Game Addition
• Linear Counting with 100 Bead Chain advanced
• Powers of Numbers (Bead Board of Powers)

3. Geometry:

• Introduction to Geometry
• Introduction to the Square of Pythagoras
• Square of Pythagoras
• Cones & Cylinders
• Cubes
• Polygons
• Prisms
• Pyramids
• Geometry Commands 1-39 (39 activities)
• The Line and Its Parts
• Nomenclature and Details of Geometry
• The Sticks
• Presentation of the Plane
• Position of a Straight Line
• Three Concepts from Space to the Plane
• Two Straight Lines Lying in the Same Plane
• Two Straight Parallel Lines
• Divergent Lines
• Convergent Lines
• Prolonging the Lines
• Study of Angles

4.Fractions:

• Introductory Lesson
• Naming
• Halves
• Thirds
• Fraction Tickets (writing fraction symbols)
• Equivalents
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division

5. Science preschool 3 to 6 experiments:

• Bubbles
• Air
• Sink & Float
• Boats
• Syphon
• Two Jars
• Post Card
• Candle in Glass
• Shadows
• Three Stages of Matter
• Magnet Sort
• Hidden Magnet
• Compass

6. Geography

• Intro to Geography: "The child in the Montessori environment needs to perfect her senses. After six years of age she realizes that there is a larger environment than her family and she wants to..."
• Needs of People of the World
• Spiritual Needs of People of the World
• Environments
• Flags-
• Peace Education: "The essentials of education for peace are built into the Montessori curriculum at every level.  At the preschool stage when children are in an absorbent state of mind (Philosophy & Psychology), they are exposed to the Continents of the World and the Peoples of the World (Geography Curriculum), thus providing the basis for a global view of life and humanity's part in it. At the elementary stage students are..."
• Land Forms Construction
• Land Forms Presentation
• Land Forms Make Cards ("Cutting Land Forms")
• Land Forms and Globe
• Land Forms Nomenclature
• Impressionistic Geography Charts Experiments Introduction--text only
• Impressionistic Geography Charts Experiments 1 to 44--text only
• Impressionistic Geography Charts Set One 1-28a--access to online picture gallery

7. History, telling time, and Cosmic Education:

• Birthday Time Line (first introduction to concept of history and time)
• The Clock first lessons
• Telling Time lesson
• Introduction to Concept of Actual Time lesson
• Hour
• One Half Hour
• One Quarter Hour
• Minutes
• History Introduction (Elementary)
• History from Maria Montessori's Pedagogical Anthropology, Introduction
• Introduction to Concept of Regular Unit of Measure (Time)
• Calendars, One Year Time Line, Child's Life Time Line and Family Time Line, and A Short History of Child's Life
• The Year and Its Parts
• Introduction to Cosmic Education
• God Who Has No Hands
• Fundamental Needs of Man/People for 6-9 (Review)
• History of Fundamental Needs of Man/People: Stages in Progress of Civilization
• The Clock of Eras
• Time Line of the Clock of Eras
• Clock of Eras Definitions
• Clock of Eras online picture gallery
• History of Creation: The Story of the Drop of Water for the Clock of Eras (The Second Cosmic Tale)

9. Botany and zoology:

• Botany Introduction
• Botany Outline
• Plant Experiment
• Mono cot and Di cot
• Parts of a Real Plant, Leaf, Root
• Parts of a Plant Cards
• Parts of a Flower Activities
• Zoology Introduction (review 3 to 6)
• Zoology Outline (3 to 6 and 6 to 9)
• Zoology Animal Classified Cards (review 3 to 6)
• The Study of Nature--text only: Outings
• The First Knowledge of the Animal Kingdom: Classified Nomenclature for Zoology: Animal Story Card Games--with pictures (knowledge of animal kingdom and reading practice)
• The animal stories for the above--text only (46 stories in all, invertebrates and vertebrates)
• First Classification of the Animal Kingdom: introduction with zoology charts & labels including invertebrates and vertebrates
• First Classification of the Animal Kingdom continued with zoology charts and definitions
• Classified Nomenclature for Internal & Other Parts of Vertebrates: a more detailed study of vertebrates as they relate to evolution/creation (fish, amphibians, reptiles)
• Classified Nomenclature for External & Other Parts of Vertebrates: a more detailed study of vertebrates as they relate to evolution/creation (birds, mammals)
• The labels for the classification charts (55 labels)

10. Physics 6 to 9 experiments (part of the Great Lessons curriculum and Cosmic Education)

Physics experiments set one:

• Cold--freezing
• The formation of the star
• Solid, liquid, gas
• Liquid, viscous
• Passing from solid to liquid to gas
• Passing from gas to liquid to solid
• Particles which love each other and which don’t (mix)
• Chemical combination of gas
• Crystallization
• Chemical reaction
• Precipitation
• Properties of solids, liquid, and gas
• Elastic, plastic, rigid
• Matter changes at different temperatures
• Law of gravity
• Rapidity of cooling and mass of bodies
• Volcano
• Matter expands when it is heated
• Quick evaporation

Physics experiments set two (32 experiments, too many to list)

Cost/payment and syllabus/lesson samples here.

The Montessori Organizer by Montessori teacher and mom, Lisa Nolan, is designed for moms who are beginning their journey into incorporating Montessori in their home environment! It is over 90 pages long, printer friendly, black and white text, easy to use, go at your own pace, and created by a trained Montessori teacher and mom! It includes a list of must-haves for two- and three-year olds, and a “how to” on giving a Three-Period Lesson. It is ideal for preschool-age children, but can also work for toddlers age 24 months and up (they grow fast)! A 6-9 Montessori homeschool organizer will be available in the coming months.

The Montessori Organizer will organize by 1) Montessori subjects, 2) months of the year, 3) seasons, and 4) themes. You will be able to list 1) materials including DIY and printables, affordable, and expensive, 2) list Montessori sellers, 3) list lessons you have given, 3) list YouTube lessons to watch, 4) list rooms in the home environment, 5) list Montessori blogs, books, groups of interest, and much more!

This organizer is NOT a Montessori album. It does NOT include lessons or activities. It does NOT include images or photos. It does NOT include a filled-in list of Montessori materials to buy/make.

See inside the book and or buy on Amazon here!