Please visit https://montessori21stcentury.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/lets-celebrate-summer-part-i/ to access the updated 2013 version! 🙂
Heidi Anne Spietz
www.amonco.org
American Montessori Consulting
Celebrating 25 Years of Serving School and Home Educators
Montessori for the 21st Century
The AMC Montessori Italy Unit Study has just been updated for 2012. Visit Montessori Italy Unit Study to access the links listed below.
These PreK and K-8 links will lead you to articles, hands-on activities and other exercises that are compatible with the Montessori classified reading cards, phonics, grammar, creative writing, science, social studies and other extensive lesson plans found in Montessori at Home, Modern Montessori at Home and Modern Montessori at Home II books.
Links for Learning the Italian Language
Beginning French Lessons (Use the Materials for Lesson Presentations in English, Spanish and Italian)
Beginning Italian – Learn the Parts of a House
Beginning Italian – Colors
Teaching Children Italian: Parts of the House
The Alphabet: Teaching Children Italian Part 2
Numbers: Teaching Children Italian Part 3
Parts of the Body: Teaching Children Italian
AMC Montessori Grammar Game (Customize to Present Grammar in Italian – Free Game Templates Included)
Download a Free Italian Song
Links to Italian Art, Art History and Renaissance Fashion
Art Projects for Elementary Students on Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Art Appreciation for Preschool and Elementary Children
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
Hands On Michelangelo Projects
Italian Renaissance Costume Construction (for Older Children and Teens)
An Easy Italian Renaissance Gown
History of Italian Art
Italian Art & Italian Craft
Montessori Renaissance Art Presentations
Renaissance Art of Italy
Classroom Drawing and Painting Supplies for Your Art Prsentations
Links to Music of Italy
Oh How I Love Italy – Music, Art, Food Seasoned with History and Geography
Vivaldi’s Musical Activities and Lessons for The Four Season
Italian Music Terms
Music Unit Study (William Tell Overture Finale by Gioachino Rossini) Ages 5 – 7
Music Unit Study (William Tell Overture: Finale by Gioachino Rossini)Ages 8 – 10
ITALIA – Musical Instruments Museums in Italy
Montessori Renaissance Music Presentations
A Brief History of Italian Opera – Listen to the Audio
Geography and Social Studies Links
Free Blank Outline Map of Italy
Maps of Italy (for Classification and Matching Exercises)
Italy: Monuments Past and Present
Italy, Rome & Roman Culture Educational Posters
Italy Timeline
Rome – The Late Republic
Italy: History, Geography, Government and Culture
Great Italians in History
A History of Italy
History of the Italian Language
A Maria Montessori Worth Watching
Italian Recipes
Apple’s Manicotti (Watch as Apple leads children through the recipe process)
Sara’s Antipasto Salad Recipe
The Italian Chef
Easy Italian Recipes
Giada De Laurentiis Recipes
Let’s Write and Discuss
Italy Around the World
Roman Food- History for Kids!
Androcles and the Lion Fable
Androcles and the Lion Felt Board Story
WebQuest for Kids
Visiting Rome with Your Kids
Visiting Italy with Children
Write Your Own Books – For K – 3rd Grade(Part I) – Create a booklet about Italy)
Write Your Own Books – For K – 3rd Grade (Part II) – Create a booklet about Italy
To access this unit study please visit Montessori Unit Study
Enjoy!
Heidi Anne Spietz
http://www.amonco.org
The beauty of spring greets many us now as we step outside. If you have suffered through a dark and dreary winter, you will especially embrace all that this season has to offer.
Have you begun to present some lessons to your child in Spanish or French or some other foreign language? Why not use nature as your theme throughout the months of April and May.
Yes, I know. You have many topics from which to choose. First, take a moment to make a list of possible topics. Then, encourage your child to make a selection. Your child may want to focus on the flora and fauna around him. If he selects flowers, use the following links to help construct needed information for your matching picture and classification exercises. See
Flower Names and Meanings in English, French and Latin and
Flowers in Spanish
Perhaps, your child wants to learn more about birds. By visiting the
AMC Montessori Spring/Summer 1998 – Revised and Expanded Newsletter you will find links to the study of gems in in French, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Italian, and German languages.
Use Google.com to locate the free pictures you need for your classified and matching picture activities. Make sure that you are not using copyrighted material. If in doubt, check with the author.
For additional Spanish and French unit lesson planning ideas, please visit
A Unit Study Lesson Plan About Mexico in Spanish
Origami Lessons in French
Make Your Own Montessori French Lessons
For additional resources, please visit
Cantemos
Professori Toto
Fun with Languages
Happy Springtime! 🙂
Heidi
Author of: Reading, Writing and Spelling in Spanish I
See also: Spanish Montessori
Welcome to Springtime at American Montessori Consulting
Visit Spring/Summer 1998. and Spring/Summer 1999. These newsletters were recently revised.
A sampling of what is featured in the 1998 issue appears below:
• interdisciplinary lessons involving shape, color, science and math.
• new color gradient learning ideas
• Butterflies – Lessons and Observations
• categorize gems according to color.
• lessons in shapes and mathematics for middle school students
Visit Springtime Celebrations to access the following:
Gardening & Other Springtime Nature Activities
and Theme Lesson Planning
• Ampersand Press – Games and Wildlife Stamps
• Childsake – Nature and the Environmen
• Farm Country General Store – Open Pollinated Seeds
• Fun Felt Newsletter Article Loaded with Free Butterfly Lesson Planning Ideas
• Fun Felt – Science Theme Lesson Planning with Felt
• Free Birdhouse Plans and Patterns
• Free Gardening Tips and More
• Free Information Source – Seashells for Classified Reading Exercises
• Free Lesson Planning Butterfly Links
• Garden Artisans – Newsletters, Projects and More
• Garden Forever for Gardeners of All Ages and Abilities
• Joyful Noise – Theme Related Materials – Wonderful Selection of Science Materials
• Lab Essentials, Inc. – Microscopes for Science Investigational Studies
• Nature’s Workshop Plus!
• Priority Montessori Materials – Hands On Science
• Schoolmasters.com Science Kits and Activities
• Spring Gardening with Children – Make a Tepee (Free Instructions)
• Wildflowers – Free Lesson Planning Ideas
Springtime Art Activities
• allartsupplies.com- For School and Home Classrooms
• Chinaberry.com – Find the Perfect Nature and/or Springtime Theme Books
• Creative Care – Ideas Books (Jenny’s Spring Crafts)
• Free Making Art from Seashells Activity
• Free Seashell Painting
• Nature’s Workshop Plus
Holidays
• Paper Mache Pinata
• Celebrating Cinco de Mayo at The Holiday Zone
• Lesson Plan – Subtopic – Cinco de Mayo
• A Unit Study Lesson Plan About Mexico in?Spanish
• More Interdisciplinary Lesson Planning ~ Spanish Lessons and Cinco de Mayo
• Cinco de Mayo ~ Excellent Background Information
• Cinco de Mayo Recipes
• Creative Care – Ideas Books (Jenny’s Crafts)
• Free Mother’s Day History and Activities
• History of Memorial Day
• Memorial Day
• Free Father’s Day Projects
• Free Easter History and Activities
• Free Passover Ideas
Happy Spring!!
Heidi
http://www.amonco.org
Tina Lee, a public school educator, college supervisor of student teachers, parent of two adult children and a grandparent of a 27 month old recently reviewed the Chinese for Children: Professor Toto Multi-Media Language Education Kit. Her review will provide invaluable insight to those wishing to introduce or add Chinese into school and homeschool foreign language programs.
“This kit is designed to teach children ages 2 years and up a second language. The multimedia kit was developed by François Thibault, founder and director NYC’s Language Workshop for Children.
I was privileged to field test the kit with my English speaking Chinese granddaughter. After viewing a segment in Mandarin, then replaying that same portion in English, she viewed both with quiet, receptive attention. The Parent’s Guide emphasizes that the child should watch both DVD’s first before moving to the activity books or audio CD. The parent guide emphasizes that viewing in English should be limited and “as soon as your child becomes familiarized with the story, he or she should move on to the target language.”
As an educator, I find that the suggestions on how to implement the program for the recommended short spurt lessons follow the best practices for second language acquisition. The approach is pedagogically sound – immersing the child in hearing, understanding, and internalizing the second language in a natural way before the child is expected to speak it.
To assist in lesson planning, the full script of Professor Toto in Chinese is printed in English, simplified Chinese characters, and also Pin-Yin (Western phonetic Chinese). The script is intended to closely match the culture and today’s common usage. Rather than a literal word-for-word translation, the emphasis is on an eventual intuitive understanding for the word meanings.
The kit is aimed for both teachers and parents and contains:
A Parent’s Guide
Part 1 & 2 Script in Chinese and English and English and Chinese
Vocabulary review in English and Chinese
Sing and Learn Book
Color and Learn Book
4 Chinese and English Language Video DVD’s
2 Audio CD’s”
For additional information please contact:
The Language Workshop for Children: Professor Toto in Chinese
Phone: (212)396.0830
(800)731.0830
FAX: (212)396.1372
E-mail address: info@professortoto.com
Website: http://www.professortoto.com
Thanks, Tina! 🙂
Heidi Spietz
American Montessori Consulting
http://www.amonco.org
Serving School and Home Educators Since 1988
Use my free printable AMC Montessori Bingo Game to present lessons in grammar. First, download the entire game by visiting Free Montessori Grammar Bingo Game This game, designed to be used with Modern Montessori at Home: A Creative Teaching Guide for Children Six through Nine Years of Age and Modern Montessori at Home II: A Creative Teaching Guide for Children 10 through 12 Years of Age, contains all of the directions, grammar symbol printouts, game cards, and free templates in English and Spanish!! All of the work has been done for you. 🙂
Use the game templates included with your free game .pdf download to create your own Montessori holiday grammar bingo game. Select a holiday theme, and then study the paragraphs enclosed with the game. For this exercise, your child will select Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or
some other holiday topic.
Click here for complete instructions on how to present this holiday grammar bingo game for children.
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