Lisa Nolan's Montessori for the Earth Since 1998!

Montessori Elementary: Year One

Recommended for:

• Children ages five to seven
• First grade and up

Cost for one year access: 

• 12.99 to 15.99hs consulting. 

List of  all the Montessori lesson plans and articles here

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May I Recommend:

• Montessori & Homeschool Books for Parents & Teachers
• Montessori Education & Methodology Books
• Reading & Phonics Books

1. Year One Part One:

• Phonograms Part One--with pictures
• Capital Letters--text only with access to an online picture gallery
• Cursive--with pictures
• Article Game--with picture
• Noun & Adjective Game with Farm Animals--with pictures
• Logical Adjective & Noun Game--with pictures (adjective relations to the nouns)
• Detective Adjective Game with Triangles--with pictureRoses

• Intro to Math--text only (brief review for 3-6)
• Introduction to Golden Beads 1-1000--with pictures
• Introduction to Symbols 1-9000--with pictures
• Golden Beads & Symbols--with pictures (Function of the Decimal System & Symbols)
• Formation of Complex Numbers with Golden Beads and Symbols--text only
• Simple Addition with Golden Beads--with pictures
• Addition or Positive Snake Game--with pictures
• Addition Strip Board--with pictures
• Subtraction Simple with Golden Beads--with pictures
• Addition Charts--with pictures
• Subtraction Negative Snake Game--with pictures
• Subtraction Negative Strip Board--with pictures
• Subtraction Charts--with picture/s
• Carrying--with picture
• Dynamic Addition with Golden Beads--with picture
• Dynamic Subtraction with Golden Beads--with picture

• Introductory Lesson--with pictures
• Naming--text only
• Halves--with pictures
• Thirds--with pictures
• Fraction Tickets--with pictures (writing fraction symbols)
• Equivalents--with pictures

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

• Intro to Geography--text only: "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--with pictures
• Spiritual Needs of People of the World--text only with access to an online picture gallery
• Environments of the World--with pictures (an art activity)
• Flags--with picture (an art activity)
• Peace Education--text only: "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..."

• Birthday Time Line--with pictures (first introduction to concept of history and time)
• The Clock first lessons--with picture
• Telling Time lesson--with picture
• Introduction to Concept of Actual Time lesson--with picture
• Hour--with picture
• One Half Hour--with picture
• One Quarter Hour--with picture
• Minutes--with picture

• Botany Intro--text only
• Botany Outline--text only
• Plant Experiments--with pictures
• Plants Mono cot and Di cot--mostly text
• Parts of a Real Plant, Leaf, Root--with pictures
• Parts of a Plant Cards--with pictures
• Parts of a Flower Activities--with pictures
• Zoology Intro--text only  (review 3 to 6)
• Zoology Outline--text only (3 to 6 and 6 to 9)
• Zoology Animal Classified Cards--with pictures (review 3 to 6)

Language & Grammar Function of Words

• Phonogram Word Lists Part Two--text only (sample of long vowel words: a, ai, a-e, ay)
• Poetry Basket--with pictures
• Simple Punctuation--text only with access to online picture gallery
• Making Simple Sentences--text only with access to online picture gallery
• Margins--text only with access to online picture gallery
• Writing a Simple Essay--text only with access to online picture gallery
• Conjunction Game with Roses--with picture
• Preposition Games with Roses and Farm Animals--with picture
• Verb Game--with picture
• Verb Command Cards & Function of the Verb--with pictures (moving towards interpretive reading)
• Different Apects of the Verb, exercises with verb tenses--with pictures
• Adverb Game--with picture
• Logical Adverb Game--text only

• Skip Counting--with pictures
• Subtraction Stamp Game
• Subtraction in Stages
• Cube Chain of Five--with picture
• 100 Chain--with picture
• 1000 Chain--with picture
• The Stamp Game--with pictures
• Simple Addition with the Stamp Game--with picture
• Simple Subtraction Stamp Game--with picture
• Dynamic Addition with the Stamp Game--with picture and picture gallery here
• Dynamic Subtraction with the Stamp Game--with picture
• Multiplication Tables with Colored Beads--with picture
• Multiplication with Golden Beads--with picture
• Dynamic Multiplication with Golden Beads--text only

• Introduction to Geometry--text only
• Introduction to the Square of Pythagoras--with picture
• Square of Pythagoras--with picture
• Cones & Cylinders--with pictures
• Cubes--with picture
• Polygons--with picture
• Prisms--with picture
• Pyramids--with picture
• Geometry Commands 1-39--mostly text (39 activities)

• 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

• Land Forms Construction--with pictures
• Land Forms Presentation--with pictures
• Land Forms Make Cards--with pictures ("Cutting Land Forms")
• Land Forms and Globe--with pictures
• Land Forms and Planispheres--text only
• Land Forms Nomenclature--text only

• History Intro--text only (Elementary)
• History from Maria Montessori's Pedagogical Anthropology, Introduction--text only
• Introduction to Concept of Regular Unit of Measure (Time)--with pictures
• Calendars, One Year Time Line, Child's Life Time Line and Family Time Line, and A Short History of Child's Life--with pictures
• The Year and Its Parts--with pictures

• Introduction to Cosmic Education--text only
• God Who Has No Hands--text only

• 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)

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