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

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

INCLUDES:

• Website access to my lesson activities for four to five 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 e-mail consulting with me for six months!

• 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 best deals 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:

Geometric Cabinet Puzzle Shapes (includes graphics)

Smelling Bottles--matching (includes graphic)

Sound Cylinders--matching (includes graphic)

Thermic Bottles--matching (includes graphic)

Geometric Cards (includes graphic)

• Snaps (includes graphics)
• Buttoning (includes graphics)
• Cut Faded Flowers (includes graphics)
• Weeding (text only--no graphics)

• Movable Alphabet--spelling (includes graphics)
• Intro to Writing (text only--no graphics)
• Writing On the Line (includes graphics)
• Learning to Write Your Name (includes graphics)
• Tracing (includes graphics)

• Dictation and Phonograms--writing/spelling (includes graphics)
• Introduction to Reading (no graphics)
• First Reading Lesson with Object Box (text only--no graphics)
• Reading Tablets/Cards (includes graphics)
• Labeling--writing/spelling (includes graphics)

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

• Animals of the World--continents (includes graphics)
• People of the World--continents (includes graphics)
• Continent Puzzle Maps (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:

"Your materials are just what I have been looking for--we're looking forward to working with them. Best wishes!"--L. H.

More testimonials here!

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