Education

The Geometric Solids

The child sorts the geometric solids by feeling their straight and curved sides…

The Zero Game with various objects

The child counts an irregular arrangement of up to 9 objects and…

The Knobbed Cylinders

The child takes out the cylinders, mixes them up, and returns them to the…

The Spindle Box

“The exercise will consist in placing opposite a figure the number of objects that it…

Culture

Cultural knowledge gives children a sense of the greatness of the human personality. Without it, they can become disenfranchised.

Cultural

Mathematics

What a child learns through the senses at this age is absorbed into the unconscious; it is known perfectly; it is easy to recall.

Language

Even before birth, children prepare for language, responding within the womb to voices they can hear. As babies they then explore language, listening to family members. And from 3 to 5 years, the period Dr Montessori referred to as the age of perceptions, their speech becomes fixed. Throughout all this the…

Senses

Between the years of 3 and 6, children develop their senses; they turn their attention outward to the surrounding environment.

Sensorial

The Montessori educator

For Maria Montessori, the educator’s role is not to teach but to guide…