I Love MontessoriStill Working on the Montessori AlbumsAugust 20, 2008 by Miss Norma | No comments
Today I spent about four hours working on three albums. They were the Record Keeping Album, the Teacher Resource Album (which included Philosophy, Child Development, Children With Special Needs, Classroom management, Peace Education, and Parent Teacher Communication) and the Cultural Album (which include Science, Geography, Art and Movement/Music). Once again like I mentioned on my previous post it is frustrating to work on them because I get to put these albums together however I want. So I had to decide what I was putting on each album since I did not want to have a binder for each of these subjects.
So what did I accomplish in those four hours? Well I got each binder in order and placed tabs with labels for each subject and sections under each subject. I also got a refresher on all the helpful materials I have to fall back on when I need assistance with any of the subjects mentioned above. I also accomplished writing up a Table of Contents for each album, even though I still need to type it up.
While putting these albums together I also went back to look at the notes I took in class last summer. This was very helpful to me because as I was looking through some of the papers I did not quite understand certain things so my notes clarified them for me. So I put my notes at the end of each subject and hope to have time to type them up. I figure that it would be more helpful to have them in the binders instead of in some notebook tugged away somewhere where I would never look at it.
Now what do I need to do to finish off the albums. I plan on putting sheet protectors on each album. So I need to go out and buy some more sheet protectors. I would also like to type up the Table of Contents and my notes. For now, that is all I can think of that needs to be done to feel like my albums are complete.
Once again I will let you know when they are finished to my liking.
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Working on the Cultural and Philsophy Montessori AlbumsAugust 8, 2008 by Miss Norma | No comments
Last night I started work on two more of my albums. I’ve been dreading it for a while since these albums did not have to be finished for my certification. So I had to actually encourage myself to take them out last night.
I first looked through my Science, Geography Art and Movement Album. I try to put tabs in for each section. Also, I put them in order that made sense for me. It was a little difficult because each category had different sections in them so I did not know how to tab it so that I can tell when the new category stared. So I ended up putting tabs for each section and category but did not label them yet.
Then I worked on the Philosophy, Child Development, Record Keeping and Parent Communication Album. That was even more confusing for me because I did not know what order to put them in or if I should have put them in different binders. Eventually I ended up leaving it in the order it was and putting in tabs for each category.
I still need to work on both of these albums. I want to put in sheet protectors and tabs that are different for the categories and sections, so that when I look through the albums it is clear where each category is.
I set them on my dining table so I can see them daily and continue to work on them.
I will let you know once I finish them and how it turns out.
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Parts of … In MontessoriJuly 30, 2008 by Miss Norma | 2 comments
For my training I had to develop a curriculum. I chose ocean Life. So I made a lot of parts of sea creatures. The children really enjoy making books of parts of. The one they love the most was the Parts of the Manatee. Some children did that work daily. Every time they did it, it was like if they were doing it for the first time.
I really enjoyed working on this project because i got to learn about a lot of sea animals specially those that are native to Florida. It also helped me build my confidence during circle time. In a Montessori classroom it is very important to have good circle time. During this time is that children learn to build their attention and learn about different cultural and world topics.
During my research of Ocean Life I most enjoyed making the materials for part of the different sea creatures. I made about ten parts of . Some of them were Parts of the Shark, Parts of the Sea Horse, Parts of the Fish, Parts of the Lobster, Parts of the Jelly Fish, and Parts of the Star Fish. If you need any of these or others feel free to contact me to get a copy of it. I will also have some of them up so that you can download it and make it for you classroom.
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Cultural Studies in a Montessori ClassroomJune 24, 2008 by Miss Norma | No comments
Cultural studies teaches the children about our world. It is Science, Biology, Geography and the studies of human life.
In science children learn about experiments. They learn the first steps of how to conduct experiments. Children are introduced to simple scientific concepts such as magnets and the magnifying glass.
Biology consists of learning about the human body and how to care for it. The children also learn about plants (Botany). This is where the children learn about gardening and how to care for the environment.
The geography part of Cultural Studies teaches the children about land, air and water. The children learn about the seven continents and the oceans. They learn about where they are in the world, different countries, and cultures of our world.
I will delve more deeply into this in the coming weeks, but for now I simply wanted to make a point of emphasizing what Cultural Studies in the Montessori classroom consisted of.
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