CHILD OF THE WORLD - ONLINE
Michael Olaf's Essential Montessori for Age Three to Twelve Years
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Each chapter of Child of the World is a separate PDF document. Click on the chapters of the Table of Contents below to open.
AGE 3-6 YEARS
Pages 1-6
BALANCE
3-6 Balance—Care of Self, Others, and the Environment:
the first six years, participating in family life, the child's purpose
Pages 7-12
FOOD
3-6 Food—Preparation & Serving:
practical tasks as the foundation for all later work, the needs of the
parents and family
Pages 13-18
TOYS
3-6 Sensorial, Manipulative Toys: active
play, movement, the senses, sensorial materials-toys, cooperative games
Pages 19-22
GAMES
3-6 Wooden Blocks, Puzzles & Games: an
introduction to later academic studies
Pages 23-29
EARTH
3-6 Earth—Physical Sciences:
motor-sensorial experiences, the solar system, globes and puzzle maps,
land forms, ecology, science experiments, lessons, art and language
Pages 30-34
PLANTS
3-6 Plants—Life Sciences, Botany:
the nature table or shelf, plants
Pages 35-40
ANIMALS
3-6 Animals—Life Sciences, Zoology:
the nature table or shelf, animals
Pages 41-44
PEOPLE
3-6 People—Social Sciences:
geography & history, globes, maps, and flags
(AGE 3-6 YEARS CONTINUED)
Pages 45-48
MUSIC
3-6 Music:
singing, listening to music, composers, musical instruments
Pages 49-52
ART
3-6 Art:
art materials, activities, art appreciation & art history
Pages 53-58
LANGUAGE
3-6 Language:
language of the child's world, experience first, vocabulary cards—speaking,
the vocabulary and the wider environment, pre-reading and writing, the
"I spy" game, reading and writing, vocabulary cards—reading,
reading books, exploring language
Pages 59-62
MATH
3-6 Geometry, Math, Measurement:
enjoyment, experience first, manipulative materials
AGE 6-12 YEARS
Pages 63-65
INTRODUCTION
6-12 Introduction to the Elementary
Class Years: education ages 6-12,
cooperation and peace
Pages 66-69
EARTH
6-12 Earth—Physical Sciences:
astronomy to geology, from the general to the specific, the simple to
the complex, lab manuals, timelines, the arts
Pages 70-73
PLANTS ANIMALS
6-12 Plants & Animals—Life Sciences:
experiments and observation, adaptation & changes of plants and animals,
classification of animals, our human bodies
(AGE 6-12 YEARS CONTINUED)
Pages 74-77
HISTORY
6-12 Geography, History, Biography—Social
Sciences: world and American geography,
history, biography
Pages 78-80
ARTS
6-12 The Arts: art and
music
Pages 81-85
LANGUAGE
6-12 Language:
creating a language environment, learning to read, creative writing, personal
spelling dictionary, handwriting, the history of language, etymology,
grammar
Pages 86-89
MATH
6-12 Geometry, Math, Measurement:
history of math and invention, manipulative materials in geometry and
math
AGE 3-12 YEARS
Pages 90-93
ENVIRONMENT
3-12 Preparing a Learning Environment:
organizing the environment, age 3-6, age 6-12, environments in the home,
the environment and the mind, the adult
Pages 94-101
PARENTS TEACHERS
3-12 Parenting & Teaching:
"Montessori materials", the supermarket effect, parenting/teaching,
concentration and contemplation, the inner guide, a fresh look, age 0-6,
age 6-12, age 12-18, age 18-24, for everything there is a season, Montessori
schools- elements, a brief biography of Maria Montessori
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