Collection of Free Montessori Resources

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I have been using different Montessori Resources on line of and on, and wanted to share this resource link list. Feel free to add to it.

Here is a list of FREE resources:

Montessori Primary Guide - http://www.infomontessori.com – online albums, guidelines for lessons and videos of presentations

Shu-Chen Jenny Yen - On-Line Montessori Teacher Albums for 3-to-6 year olds – http://faculty.fullerton.edu/syen/mts/_link.htm – For a long time, Montessori Teacher Albums are used by many Montessori educators as a mean of refining their teaching skills. These so-called “Teacher Albums” contain all the detailed information on the setup, procedures, aims, variations, extensions, as well as teaching notes of an arbitrary activity. Before conducting an activity, Montessori educators are encouraged to review their Albums to ensure an accurate and correct presentation. After an activity, reminders and notes should also be wrote on the Albums to improve teaching techniques. Due to the importance of the Teacher Albums, Montessori educators are also encouraged to update new materials into their Albums to enrich their teaching contents.
This is a full collection of Shu-Chen Jenny Yen’s Montessori Teacher Albums. These Albums contains 240 developmentally appropriate activities for 3-to-6 year old children. Great resource for all parents!!

Wikisori - http://www.wikisori.org/index.php/Main_Page – an online Montessori Album project, there are different materials of varying quality, but overall is a good source

Montessori Materials.org - http://www.montessorimaterials.org/index.html – lots of free downloadable resources

Montessori Mom - http://www.montessorimom.com/sitemap/ – great selection of free downloads, newsletters and printouts.

Free Montessori Resources – http://sites.google.com/site/freemontessoriresources/Home - great selection of PDFs and lessons

Moteaco.com - http://www.moteaco.com/index.shtml – A free library of Dr. Montessori’s writings, by arrangement with the publishers;Teacher’s Albums for ages 3 - 9; Scope and Sequence information for ages 3 - 12; The Great Lessons with illustrations for those, who use these; 11 translated lectures and more than 300 Montessori quotes.

Cultivating Dharma - http://www.freemontessori.org/ – materials of a montessori teacher – a blog and free downloads

Miss Barbara - http://www.missbarbara.net/ – lots of web resources, I have not used it much, but it looks interesting

There are a number of on line blogs that feature Montessori materials, lessons and ideas. These can be great resources to planning your own curricula and activities. Here are some of them:

http://teaching-montessori.blogspot.com – lots of nice illustrations of different Montessori activities, there is a possibilities of ordering some Montessori materials from the author of the blog

http://montessoriconfessions.blogspot.com/

http://montessorihouse.blogspot.com/

http://chasingcheerios.blogspot.com/

http://whatdidwedoallday.blogspot.com/

http://mommyme-thewonderyears.blogspot.com/search/label/Montessori – some nice Montessori activities

http://montessorisecrets.blogspot.com

http://themoveablealphabet.blogspot.com/

http://thelearningark.blogspot.com/

http://montessoristory.blogspot.com/

http://montessori-work.blogspot.com/

http://themontessorigoldmine.blogspot.com/

To start with :smiley:

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This is an amazing list. Thank you!

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It can be overwhelming for those homeschooling, or located far from any Montessori playgroups and schools to figure out how to plan your own Montessori activities. Here are some links to Montessori teacher albums/teacher guides, which can be a perfect place where to start, as it gives lots of useful insight and information.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29635 – Maria Montessori’s Own Handbook available for free ( it is out of copyright) from Project Guttenberg

Scope and Sequence resources:

http://www.maitrilearning.com/downloads.html - scroll down to get to downloadables

http://montessoristory.blogspot.com/2009/02/sequence-of-montessori-work.html – Scope and sequence divided into seven periods – nice outline!

http://www.montessoriprintshop.com/Montessori_Sensorial_Lesson.html

http://ourmontessorihomeschool.wordpress.com/activities/ – List ( in point form) of activities for every day – list covers 24 months!!! Great place to get started with planning activities and ideas. I always liked outlines, – I can build on it and adapt it to our homeschool!