EARLY CHILDHOOD 1
Educational Videos
Montessori at home: Lessons & Adaptations
EC Teacher Introduction
Hi Parents!
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As an Early Childhood level (EA & GA), we thought this would be a great way to help support you as we bridge what we're doing in our Montessori classrooms to what you're doing at home. These are adaptations to the lessons we give to the children. We'll all be working together to create a series of educational learning videos, which we'll be posting weekly by the curriculum. We hope this helps in creating a Montessori environment in your homes!
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- The EC Team
Geared towards:
1st years
2nd years
3rd years
Math
Beginning counting adaptations
In this video, Miss Brittany talks about math philosophy and pre-numeracy skills. It includes clips of Mr. Sam and Miss Jess demonstrating some adaptations for practicing numbers 1-10.
This video is aimed at students who are practicing Cards and Counters. Miss April demonstrates how to adapt this lesson to at-home learning.
Place Value: Decimal System
In this video, Miss Brittany talks about math philosophy and demonstrates how to build your own complete Nine's Layout. Also, the practice of constructing numerals and quantities using DIY materials.
Language
This video explains how we explore phonics through a multi-sensory approach of listening to the sound, seeing the sound, and feeling the sound. It also explores matching beginning letter sounds with pictures, which helps with phonemic awareness and vocabulary. These lessons are aimed at 3-year olds. The teachers presenting in this video are Miss Jess and Miss Shauna.
This video is aimed for 3-4-year-olds that are practicing strengthening their pincer grasp in Practical Life and are ready to start forming letters. We give instructions on how to make your own Sand Tray, a lesson on tracing letters with repetition and having a tactile experience with shaving cream. Each lesson connects the spoken language with the hand. The teachers presenting in this video are Miss Jess and Miss Jasmine.
This video explains how to make adaptations for the Movable Alphabet, and instructions on building consonant-vowel-consonant words using letters, objects, and pictures. This prepares the child for reading, writing, and spelling. This video is aimed for 4-6-year-olds. The teachers presenting in this video are Miss Jess and Miss Elise.
Math
This video is for 3-4-year-olds. It explains how to make a patterning work at home. Patterning helps children find and explore patterns in their own environments. It also helps to recognize patterns in math and other academic subjects. Miss Teresa presents in this video.
This video is for 4-6-year-olds. It shows how to make an adaptation for the Montessori Teen Board. The Teen Board shows how teen numbers and quantity correlate. The lesson and materials make the connection for the child. Quantities are more concrete for young children to understand. Miss Emillie presents in this video.
This video is for 4-6-year-olds. It gives an introduction to money. We start learning money to expand a child's view of numbers and apply it to real life. We keep going forward with the decimal system as well. It also makes a connection with making quantities-something that the child has already done. Again, we make it applicable to how the child will use quantities and numerals. Miss Shauna presents in this video.
Language
This video is for parents who have children who are working in the reading readiness area. It is geared towards a first-year student who is working on matching pictures and Figure-Ground. Matching is an important reading readiness skill that aids in the classification of symbols which is a step in learning to read. Figure-Ground focuses on discrimination and perception when focusing on color, shape, and size. Miss Laura and Miss Mara are presenting this video.
This video is for parents of children who are 2nd or 3rd-year students. It works on the middle sound in consonant vowel consonant words or CVC words. It enables children to have extra practice with the middle sound recognition of the vowels a,e, i,o, and u. Miss Laura is presenting in this video.
This video is geared towards children who are 2nd or 3rd-year students. Ending sounds in Montessori is an important part when learning how to read. Ending sounds can be difficult for the child but if you give them objects and have them say the word aloud it will help them identify the ending sound. Miss Mara is presenting in this video.
Math
This video is for parents of younger students, or students working on number recognition and identification and quantity associations. Mr. Sam includes numbers 0-9, however, adaptations can be made for any combination of numbers 0-9, depending upon your child. Get excited and have fun!
This video is for parents who’d like to teach their child combinations of 10 at home. It includes a printable link, a quick short bead stair introduction, and instruction on the primary lesson of the snake game (or book 1) and how it relates to static addition. This lesson is typically given to the second-year students or 4-year-olds. Miss April presents in this video.
This video is aimed at parents of kindergarteners and second-year students who have mastered the snake game and the nines layout decimal system lessons. Miss Brittany will show you how to teach your child simple addition starting with unit beads and gradually increasing the difficulty until you are adding with numerals into the thousands. All of the materials used in this video are DIY made from common household items - including the equation cards in which you can write yourself using markers and paper.
Language
Rhyming is an important aspect of learning how to read. It teaches children how language works. They will gain an understanding of the rhythm of words. When they become familiar with rhymes, they will be prepared to make predictions, which is another important reading skill. In this video, we show you activities that can be done with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-year students. It involves matching pictures and rhyming words and building rhyming lists. Miss Elise, Miss Jess, and Miss Jasmine present in this video.
In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. A fun beginning reading work we like to teach the children is “Secret Messages.” The child will read a folded piece of paper that will have a CVC word written on it. Sight words “Puzzle Words,” are words the child cannot sound out phonetically, so we teach them how to memorize these words using a Three Period Lesson. When they identify one of these sight words while reading, they will be able to continue without difficulty. This lesson is typically given to the 2nd and 3rd years. Miss Jasmine presents in this video.
In Montessori, we teach children grammar at a young age, which is called “Functions of Words.” Grammar helps the child build order in their life, and they’ll be able to make connections when reading. In this video, Miss Jess explains oral instruction activities with the importance of naming and shows different ways you can teach your children about nouns (people, places, or things). This lesson is geared towards 3rd-year students.
Math
The Ten's Board lesson comes after learning about the teen numbers. This lesson is usually done with children who are in their third year or about 5 years old, but it can be done with second years that are ready. This work helps children learn the passage from one set of ten to the next. Miss Sarah presents in this video.
This video is aimed at students who are Kindergarten age or second-year students. This lesson is given after the Ten Board but can be practiced as a parallel lesson or as an alternative lesson for a change of pace. Before a child is able to do this lesson, the teen board should be mastered. They should also be able to organize the numbers from 1-100. Ms. Laura teaches how to make the board, and layout the numbers on the paper hundred board. Please see the links above for printing these out at home.
This video is aimed at kindergarten students and demonstrates how to teach dynamic addition at home. If your child has mastered all the nine's layout lessons and is very comfortable with static addition, this lesson is for you! A dynamic equation is one in which you have to “carry” or “borrow” from the next numeral family. In Montessori, we prepare the child for these types of problems by demonstrating how to make equal exchanges using the concrete golden bead materials. This video will show you how to play “The Exchange Game” and solve dynamic addition problems into the thousands. You can write your own equations or use this free printable we’ve created for you! Not every early childhood student will be ready for this lesson by the end of their third year - and that’s okay! Follow your child’s lead and keep it fun. Miss Brittany presents in this video.
Language
This video is an introduction on how to play and make a memory game. It also includes how to play an I Spy game that helps improve memory and concentration for children. Miss Teresa presents in this video.
This video is aimed at parents of students who are at the beginning stages of writing. This video goes over the beginning lessons of Handwriting without Tears, including playdough, wet-dry-try, and two of the beginning songs. Miss Emilie presents in this video.
This video is aimed at parents. It shows how to alphabetize the letters of the alphabet using a song. Then it shows how to put CVC words in order and last a more difficult level with the same letter at the beginning. Miss Shauna presents in this video.