circle collage: prek Montessori daily lesson plan tutorial Easy Art lesson
This video gives you a simple art lesson using circles to create a circle collage. The child is able to practice cutting and gluing skills as well as developing focus and concentration as they choose colors and design the collage. The written tutorial is also found in my September Daily montessori lesson plan.
These videos are a collection of art projects that I created with preschoolers and pre-K students ages 3-6 years old in day care, community centers and montessori inspired classrooms.
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Thanks so much for your interest in my Montessori Daily Lesson Plans curriculum.
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I had the privilege of experiencing my first primary classroom. Unfortunately, the former Montessori Teacher (also known as the "Guide" or "Directress") before left no records tracking the progress of the children I had in my charge. I started to panic, wondering where I would even begin. Can you believe this has happened to me? Twice
How incredible it would have been if the lesson plans I have created had been in place! I would have just taken out the September lesson plan I have created and taught with confidence, knowing the educational terrain the children had covered. I would have been more than ready to welcome the new students to the classroom with leaders intact.
Maybe it's been awhile since you have been in the classroom. If you have your albums, you can take my lesson plans, look at the reference codes listed next to each lesson and cross reference it with your albums, read through the instructions and prepare your room day by day, weekly or monthly!
I promise that these lesson plans will cause you to FALL BACK IN LOVE with your classroom environment, leaving you more time to focus on the most important part of this job: bonding with
your students!
Q #1- Do I need Montessori Training to Teach these lesson plans?
A- It is ideal to have gone through a Montessori training. The lesson plans DO NOT offer the detailed step by step lessons found in the Montessori Albums. These lesson plans assist the Montessori teacher to ensure that he/she is following a reasonable scope and sequence throughout the year, honoring each area of the Montessori classroom in the process.
Q #2- How do I get started? Can I begin the curriculum in the middle of the year?
A- It is ideal to begin with the September guide. The Montessori materials are introduced sequentially beginning in the September guide.
Q #3- How is the Peace Curriculum introduced?
A- Peace is presented throughout the entire curriculum through books, projects, conversations and service projects.
The peace curriculum also includes the Grace & Courtesy lessons.
Q #4- Are the songs, poems, and fingerplays in the guides?
A- Most of the songs are in the guides or links are listed for your reference. Other songs have the words given and a note to put to a familiar melody.
Q #5- How do you get a 3 hour work time?
A- The ideal is a 2 ½ to 3 hour work period, but this will vary according to age, interests, attention span, etc. Early in the year a 3 hour work period is usually not practical as the children have not yet “normalized” and may become restless after two hours or less. As the year progresses they will have received more lessons and developed self discipline and the ability to work on their own and for a longer length of time. In fact, they are often reluctant to put work away when it is time to stop, so give a gentle warning about five minutes before the work period is over. This can be done by softly singing “Time to put your work away, time to your work away, time to put your work away and come to the line (or whatever is next).” Just use a simple melody if you aren’t familiar with this song.
Q #6- Do you give group lessons?
A- This is left entirely up to the person using the guides. Schools where I have been use some initial group lessons in combination with individual lessons. In my experience, children observe better in a group. Whether group or individual, a lesson is given in such a way to entice the child into the process of the work, using words only if they are a part of the lesson with slight exaggeration of movements. A gentle and positive manner of the teacher makes a huge difference in the receptiveness of the children, whether it is a group lesson or an individual one. It also depends on the lesson being given as some are for use in small groups.