A Guide for the Montessori Classroom: Winter curriculum

A Guide for the Montessori Classroom: Winter

The second in a set of four guides (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) for the classroom and home school.

Includes instructions for the non Montessori-specific work.

Coded for use with the companion book- Supplement to the Guides: Instructions for the Montessori Work available in this eBay store.

December themes include:
Introduction to the Continents; Geography, flags, biomes, animals, and people of North America; Our country, our state, our city; Celebrations around the World.

January includes:
Time- Year, Seasons, Months, Days, Hours,  Minutes, Seconds; The Time Line of Earth and living things; Geography, flags, biomes, animals, and people of South America.

February includes:
Our country's time line; Presidents and Flag; Geography, flags, biomes, animals, and people of Europe. 

Working from the whole to the parts, the guide integrates practical life, sensorial, math, language, science and the natural world, the great lessons, geography, social studies, sign language, music, art, yoga, and other learning experiences into a meaningful and interrelated theme.

It is arranged in daily plan format with enough ideas for several years use. It may also be used as an idea book rather than followed sequentially. Select, rearrange, modify, and merge with your own ideas - using the plans as springboards for launching into the needs and interests of each child.

Developed in the ages 3 to 6 classroom, they are also used in the 6 to 9 classroom with minor adaptation.

The Winter guide introduces 49 through 56 of the 95 yoga poses in the set of 4 guides. Easy to follow instructions for integrating yoga into the classroom or home school are included. Yoga calms the mind and the body, oxygenates the brain, increases focus and concentration.

Instructions for making and presenting "Celebration of Life"- a meaningful way to honor a child's life accomplishments and birthday

Inspirational quotes by Maria Montessori are throughout the book.

 An important feature are the weekly journal pages for daily notes, classroom observations, quiet reflection on the week, and planning.

The manual is 8 1/2" x 11" and contains 143 pages with text on both sides. It is spiral bound to fold back and lay flat while in use.

Created by a Montessori teacher, Gini Newcomb. Montessori certified since 1985, B.A. in Studio Art with a Minor in Art History, and is a certified YogaKids Facilitator.

The complete set of 4 guides is available at a savings in a separate listing in our eBay store.

Use the link to my website on my  page to see sample pages from the books.

See the complete set of four in our ebay store .