Online Montessori & homeschool activities & e-mail consulting! Since 1998!

Lisa Nolan Montessori (formerly Montessori for the Earth) Home**Bookstore

There's a place for everything and everything is in its place. Sensitivity for order in the environment is essential as breathing oxygen.--Maria Montessori

• Website access to my lesson activities for three year olds in pictures and text; and my Montessori articles and documents that are easy to download and save to your computer. Creationist friendly.

• Optional-email consulting with me for four months!

• Membership to my online Montessori community

• Articles & documents including: 
• How to start, where to begin 
• Setting up a Montessori environment for 3 to 5 year olds
• 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
• Forums and blogs to join for support

• Specific links to free public Montessori material downloads

• Where to find the bestdeals for Montessori materials in Culture, Geography, Language, Math, Practical Life, Science, Sensorial, and Telling Time

• Digital pictures of my own hand-made Montessori materials (when applicable). 

• Cost and How to Pay

Montessori Lesson Activities:

• Using Mats/Rugs in the Classroom (includes graphics)
• Pouring Activities (includes graphics)
• Open & Close  (includes graphics)
• Advanced Pouring (includes graphics)
• Water Pouring Activities (text only--no graphics)
• Tea Party Activities (includes graphics)
• Spooning and Tonging (includes graphics)

• Sorting Small Objects One and Two including Button Sorting and Bead Sorting (includes graphics)
• Color Box 2 (includes graphic)
• Geometric Solids and Bases (includes graphics)
• Brown Stairs (includes graphic)
• Touch (Tactile) Boards (includes graphic)
• Touch (Tactile) Tablets (includes graphic)
• Advanced Cylinder Blocks (includes graphic)

• Bubbles and Air Experiment (includes graphic)
• Sink and Float (includes graphic)

• Introduction to Animals (text only--no graphics)
• Classify Animals (includes graphics)

• Land and Water Forms (includes graphics)
• Land and Water Forms Match to Cards (includes graphics)
• And How to Make (text only--no graphics)
• Land and Water Globe (includes graphics)
• World Globe or Color Globe (includes graphics)

• I Spy Game (text only--no graphics)
• Sand Paper Sounds/Letters (includes graphics)
• Write Sand Paper Sounds/Letters (text only--no graphics)

• Number Rods--math counting 1-10 (includes graphics)
• Sand Paper Numbers (includes graphic)
• Spindle Boxes--math counting 0-9 (includes graphic)
• Color Bead Stair--math counting 1-9 (includes graphic)

• Conflict Resolution including Social Grace and Courtesy (text only--no graphics)
• Care of the Environment FAQs (text only--no graphics)
• Discipline FAQs (text only--no graphics)

• Metal Insets--beginning drawing of geometric shapes (includes graphics)
• Clay Activities (includes graphics)
• More Art Activities (includes graphics)

Montessori Articles & Documents:

• 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..." 

Testimonials:

"I love your site-it's exactly what I spent 6 months looking for!...  Btw, the biggest help was the daily routine and how you set things up--knowing what someone else's Prepared Environment looked like really helped in creating ours. And, when you get your child a plant to take care of, don't get a cactus. Thanks for your help!"--Peggy

"Thanks so much for the wonderful resources.  we are living in sakhalin, russia so we are so excited that with your program stephen will be able to experience the montessori methods. thanks again!" --jackie

"I loved your program. I found it very helpful.... I teach head start in San Diego. We are not Montessori but I have the training and try to add Montessori when possible. Your [web]site was very good."--Diane Sabeghi

More testimonials here!

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