Basic Montessori Learning Activities For Under-Fives

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ISBN: 9780312018641 | 0312018649
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/15/1988

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For the first time, Basic Montessori opens the celebrated philosophy and method to a more general public. David Gettman has devised a clear and modern explanation of Montessori's revolutionary ideas about early intellectual development, and provides a step-by-step guide to the Montessori learning activities most commonly used with under-fives. These include activities for introducing reading and writing, counting and decimal concepts, science, and geography, as well as activities that help develop the child's practical and sensorial skills.

Foreword	p. ix
Montessori and her Theories	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Young Child's Special Mind	p. 3
An Ordered Growth	p. 5
Learning by Connecting	p. 10
The Child's Work Place	p. 12
How the Adult Can Help	p. 17
The Activities	p. 21
The Five Subjects	p. 21
An Overview of the Sequence	p. 22
Presenting an Activity	p. 27
The Child Freely at Work	p. 29
Directing a Group of Children	p. 30
Growth towards Independence	p. 32
Peace through Self-fulfilment	p. 34
Practical Activities	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
Analysing Movement	p. 39
A List of Practical Activities	p. 41
Pouring Beans between Two Jugs	p. 42
Buttoning	p. 44
Sweeping Sawdust	p. 46
Handling a Book (Presentation to a Group)	p. 51
Saying 'Thank You'	p. 56
Walking on the Line	p. 58
Being Silent	p. 60
Sensorial Activities	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
Three Stage Lesson	p. 69
Sight	p. 72
Cylinder Blocks	p. 72
Pink Tower	p. 74
Brown Stair	p. 76
Red Rods	p. 78
Colour Tablets	p. 80
Geometric Cabinet	p. 84
Constructive Triangles	p. 88
Square of Pythagoras	p. 91
Binomial and Trinomial Cubes	p. 94
Touch	p. 98
Blindfold	p. 98
Tactile Sense	p. 98
Sensitising the Fingers	p. 98
Touch Boards	p. 99
Tactile Tablets	p. 101
Fabrics	p. 103
Thermic Sense	p. 105
Thermic Bottles	p. 105
Thermic Tablets	p. 108
Stereognostic Sense	p. 110
Geometric Solids	p. 110
Stereognostic Bags	p. 115
Mystery Bag	p. 117
Sorting Grains	p. 117
Visual Work with Blindfold	p. 118
Baric Sense	p. 119
Baric Tablets	p. 119
Hearing	p. 121
Sound Boxes	p. 121
Bells	p. 125
Taste	p. 128
Tasting Cups	p. 128
Smell	p. 129
Smelling Boxes	p. 129
Language Activities	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
Early Preparation	p. 134
Classified Pictures	p. 134
I Spy	p. 136
Speech	p. 137
Sandpaper Letters	p. 139
Writing	p. 140
Metal Insets	p. 140
Movable Alphabet	p. 142
Writing Individual Letters	p. 146
Writing Families of Letters	p. 147
Positioning Letters on Lines	p. 147
Sandpaper Capitals	p. 148
Storage of Work	p. 149
Reading	p. 150
Object Boxes	p. 150
Action Cards	p. 152
Reading Folders	p. 153
Puzzle Words	p. 155
Book Corner and Library	p. 156
Mathematics Activities	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Introduction to Numbers	p. 162
Number Rods	p. 162
Sandpaper Numbers	p. 163
Number Tablets (with the Number Rods)	p. 164
Spindles	p. 166
Numbers and Counters	p. 167
Memory Play	p. 168
Introduction to the Decimal System	p. 169
Limited Bead Material	p. 169
Number Cards	p. 171
Function of the Decimal System	p. 172
Formation of Complex Numbers	p. 174
Unlimited Bead Material	p. 175
Introduction to Teens and Tens	p. 177
Introduction to Teens	p. 177
Introduction to Tens	p. 179
Fractions	p. 181
Culture Activities	p. 183
Introduction	p. 183
Geography	p. 188
Land and Water	p. 188
Maps	p. 190
Places	p. 193
Nature Studies	p. 195
Animals	p. 195
Classifying Animals	p. 195
Parts of Animals	p. 197
Plants	p. 198
Classification by Leaf	p. 198
Parts of Plants	p. 201
Plant Life Cycles	p. 203
Matter and Energy	p. 204
Air	p. 204
Water	p. 207
Magnetism	p. 208
Gravity	p. 211
Sound	p. 213
Optics	p. 214
History	p. 216
Past and Present	p. 216
Stories about the Past	p. 217
Time Line	p. 218
Further Reading	p. 221
Index	p. 223
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