
How Does Montessori work with Fun-Schooling?
- Montessori is hands-on and self-directed
- Goes along perfectly with Fun-Schooling baskets!
- Include natural material learning toys and games in your basket – there are lots on Etsy
- Could easily set-up different Montessori-inspired Fun-Schooling stations
- Here is an example of a space Sarah set up- https://www.facebook.com/groups/FunSchoolingwithThinkingTreeBooks/posts/2757773814502854/
- Give kids control to choose what they want to do and when they want to do it
- Montessori students know what needs to be accomplished in a designated amount of time and are given the freedom to complete their tasks in any order they choose
- Montessori classrooms rotate out activities/works
- Can rotate single-subject journals and complementary materials
- Store them on a low shelf/table for easy access
- Nature study, Life Skills, character development, and the arts are a big part of Montessori
- We have journals for all of those!
- Pair them with hands-on life experience
- Use Montessori materials like sandpaper letters, Montessori math manipulatives, and motor skills frames/toys alongside the journals
- Wooden puzzles!
- Popular in Montessori and go great in a Fun-Schooling basket
- Nomenclature cards/ 3-part cards
- These are used to introduce new words and teach different subjects
- Would work great along with journals, especially with vocabulary building pages
- Fun-Schooling journals can be used by a wide range of ages and Montessori classrooms are multi-age classrooms
- Put together a multi-age group of other homeschoolers to go through a journal together
- Montessori teens choose an area of focus and engage in hands-on in-the-field study on that area of focus
- Just like choosing a major!
- Montessori values teaching independence and equipping kids with skills to thrive on their own
- Our research method and journals are set up with this same goal in mind
Watch a flip-through of some of our Montessori-friendly journals here: