Early Childhood · Ages 3–6
Early Childhood Teaching Manuals Set
SKU: MP.CS
Product Description
The Early Childhood Teaching Manuals Set includes all nine manuals for the level: Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, Language Arts Volumes 1 through 3, Botany, Zoology, and Geography and History. Together they cover the curriculum areas of the Early Childhood classroom, with each presentation written out step by step. The manuals follow one format, so a teacher moving between areas finds the same structure in each. The set also includes the Montessori Rating Scale Early Childhood Environment, a tool for evaluating the completeness of the classroom environment.
What's Included
- Practical Life
- Sensorial
- Mathematics
- Language Arts Volume 1
- Language Arts Volume 2
- Language Arts Volume 3
- Botany
- Zoology
- Geography and History
- Montessori Rating Scale Early Childhood Environment
Children will develop
- Coordinated movement and functional independence
- Visual discrimination of dimension, form, and color
- Vocabulary and precision of language
- Blending sounds into words, and words into reading
- Recognition of the nine parts of speech and what each one does
- Place value and the four operations with concrete quantity
- An appreciation for plants, animals, and the earth
Designed to Work Together
Contents at a Glance
Botany
Living and non-living, plant and animal, and the plant and its six parts
Geography and History
Land, water, and air, mapping, land and water forms, continents and oceans, weather, the calendar, and the clock
Language Arts Volume 1
Oral language, listening and speaking, visual perception, and concept development
Language Arts Volume 2
Writing and reading with the Sandpaper Letters, Metal Insets, Moveable Alphabet, and the Pink, Lilac, Blue, and Green Series
Language Arts Volume 3
The function of words: the nine parts of speech and the grammar symbols
Mathematics
Linear counting to one thousand, the Decimal System, and memorization of the four operations
Practical Life
74 exercises, from the first days of school through Grace and Courtesy, Control of Movement, Care of the Environment, Care of Person, Food Preparation, and Sewing
Sensorial
38 materials for visual dimension, geometric form, color, and the tactile, baric, thermic, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory senses
Zoology
The five classes of vertebrates, with guidance on the care of animals
Montessori Rating Scale Early Childhood Environment
A tool for teachers and school directors to evaluate the completeness of the Montessori environment, for self-evaluation and program improvement planning