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6 Core Principles of Prepared Montessori Environment. Number 1. Freedom and its limits

Posted on November 17, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

During my training, we discussed main principles of prepared Montessori environment. I want to discuss and share them with you. Nice shelves and beautiful materials are important (spoiler! We will talk about it later) but the theory is an integral part of Montessori education. To my mind, in the beginning, you need to understand the…

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Art Appreciation: Level 6. Matching artist to the painting Montessori activity

Posted on November 11, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

We are learning more and more about Montessori Art appreciation. In the last post, we were learning about artists himself using Famous Artists 3-part cards, so the next level is learning one of the most famous paintings of each artist. This material is different from matching famous painting because its aim is not exactly to…

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Handmade Holiday Gifts for Montessori Grown Ups

Posted on November 3, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

This post may contain affiliate links to things I personally like, find inspirational and appropriate for gifts. I am very thrilled to take part in the awesome 15 Days of Montessori for the Holidays Series organized by Montessori Bloggers Network. During 15 days dedicated Montessori souls share with you interesting and fun Montessori related holiday ideas. We have…

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Art Appreciation: Level 5. Matching famous artists cards activity

Posted on October 27, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

     Happy to see you again art explorers. We continue our study of painted beauty. Previous times we looked at gorgeous paintings, we enjoyed masterpieces, we were trying to find matches, we were forming them from pieces. Now it is time to get to know better their authors. At this step, I suggest using…

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Art Appreciation: Level 4. Forming paintings from pieces activity

Posted on October 20, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

     We are now at level 4 of Montessori Art Appreciation Series. We have already matched painting of same sizes and of different sizes. So to add an additional point of interest and a bit of a challenge we will now try to form paintings from pieces. This material consists of 12 paintings cards…

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Art Appreciation: Level 3. Matching Big and Small Paintings

Posted on October 11, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

     So we have already matched some paintings. And we are now very good at it! So we need to make this a bit more difficult now. So next level is matching paintings of different sizes. I use this sequence because of the isolation of difficulty Montessori peculiarity (we discussed it more in the…

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Art Appreciation: Level 2. Matching the paintings of famous artists

Posted on October 4, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

We are going further in our art study. Next stage is matching paintings of famous artists. After learning about art in general, we can now start looking in details at the art of painting. The first thing we need to do is to get familiar with famous paintings.  This material goes in two sizes. You…

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Art Appreciation: Level 1. Exploring the forms of art

Posted on September 29, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

      I am really concerned about the treatment of art by modern society. I know that many of 20+ years old are not really interested in art at all and I think it is horrible. That is why in my practice I use a lot of materials for learning about art, making art…

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Underwater life Montessori activities

Posted on June 29, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

It is pretty hot outside and I really need some freshness. I was thinking about water  and ocean and it reminded me of learning about underwater life with preschoolers and toddlers. Today I want to share with you some simple activities that we had fun with. They are really easy to organize. We used a…

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Mother’s Day Printables Collection

Posted on April 30, 2015March 15, 2020 by Katherine

Mother’s Day is not far away and I decided to gather some printables for your learning environments to support it.  I made this material together with Children around the world Cards, but I decided to present it only today. It was very hard to choose pictures for this material because all moms and kids were so…

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