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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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My Montessori Lesson Plans and Articles

1. Year One Part One:

Language & Grammar & Function of Words
  • 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
Math
  • 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
Fractions
  • Introductory Lesson--with pictures
  • Naming--text only
  • Halves--with pictures
  • Thirds--with pictures
  • Fraction Tickets--with pictures (writing fraction symbols)
  • Equivalents--with pictures
Science Preschool 3 to 6 Experiments
  • 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
Geography
  • 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..."
History & Telling Time
  • 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 & Zoology
  • 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)
2. Year One Part Two:

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
Math
  • 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
Geometry
  • 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)
Physics 6-9 Experiments--text only (also part of the Great Lessons curriculum and Cosmic Education)
  • 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
Geography
  • 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 & Telling Historical Time
  • 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
History & Cosmic Education  (also part of the Great Lessons curriculum and Cosmic Education)
  • Introduction to Cosmic Education--text only
  • God Who Has No Hands--text only
Botany & Zoology
  • 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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