At home, I don't have the budget to stock all of the Montessori materials available for the 3-6 age group, so we use a few key items and then mix in materials I've bought over the years in traditional public and private classrooms. I guess the good thing about needing to buy so many of my own teaching tools is that I got to keep them.
The design of the room is Montessori-inspired but surely not up to code, so to speak. The order of concepts introduced is also in the neighborhood of what Maria would do, but with just one student, I have the luxury of veering off on tangents in accordance with her interests and learning style. We are picking and choosing, and we are having a lot of fun. I'm even using lesson notes from way back in grad school, the last time I was teaching and learning with the under five crowd.
My methodology evolves as my student grows. In other words, she's teaching me far more than I'm teaching her.
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| Zelda matches images to the initial letter sound they represent. The pose was her idea. |
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| Another batch of initial sound picture cards, which we began after using three dimensional objects, just like Maria would have wanted. I swear I didn't tell her to pose like this. |
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| I mixed the Moveable Alphabet with short vowel cards from a PK-K reading series once used by Broward County Schools. |
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| Halloween spurred her desire to spell 'boo,' which led to substituting her favorite letter and making a new word. |
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