by Abigail Miller | May 1, 2010 | arthropods, biology, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, Montessori materials, taxonomy
After repeated trips to the garden to hunt for arthropods in the leaf litter and our visit from the University of Colorado “Bug Mobile,” the students have been very interested in the independent classroom works about Arthropods. Sorting Arthropods into...
by Abigail Miller | Oct 18, 2009 | Geometric Solids, Montessori, Montessori materials, Montessori Method, Sensorial
In Montessori classrooms the children are permitted to freely choose among a great variety of growth-promoting materials during the independent work period. As a result of their freedom to choose, it is always very interesting to see which materials the children are...
by Abigail Miller | Oct 7, 2009 | art, cutting lesson, Montessori materials, scissors
I also updated my cutting lesson with this nice little set (I really like the little wooden box for the scraps and the nice rounded stainless scissors- they seem better proportioned to the child’s hand and the children were much more successful with them than...