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

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

Hi! My Modified Montessori for Three Year Olds offers Montessori and homeschool lesson activities (appropriate for three year olds) plus Montessori philosophy and methodology documents including how to create a Montessori environment, for parents and educators who are using Teaching Montessori in the Home the Pre-school Years by Elizabeth G. Hainstock. The activities below are not included in the book so you can use them to suppliment your current Montessori program at home or at school!

I also offer optional e-mail consulting  with me, a trained Montessori teacher (and a stay-at-home mom!). 

The following Montessori articles and documents are included--

• Daily Routine & 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..."
• 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..." 
• 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..."
• 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..."

Practical Life

• Using Mats/Rugs in the Classroom
• Open & Close 
• Tea Party Activities
• Washing Windows
• Spooning and Tonging

• Sorting Small Objects
• Brown Stairs

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

• Introduction to Animals
• Classify Animals

• Land and Water Forms
• Land and Water Forms Match to Cards One and Two and How to Make
• Land and Water Globe
• World Globe (or Color Globe)
• World Puzzle Maps One, Two, Three (geography)

• I Spy Game

• Color Bead Stair (math counting 1-9)
• Counting Activities  (math counting 1-9)

• Conflict Resolution including Social Grace and Courtesy Intro, One and Two
• Care of the Environment FAQs
• Discipline FAQs

• Clay Activities
• Misc. Art Activities

"Hi Mearth! 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!