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Curriculum

The MTC makes no claims as to the absolute authority of this document or its content. It is simply the result of some regular folks' dedicated research, interpretation, and experiences of the Montessori Method. That being said, enjoy!

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PRACTICAL LIFE

  • Materials

    • Presentation cycle

      • Mats

      • Carrying

      • Walking

      • Tidying

  • Classroom environment

    • Grasping

    • Twisting

    • Sorting

    • Spooning

    • Pouring

    • Tweezing

    • Table setting

    • Table washing

    • Cloth washing

    • Cloth folding

    • Food prep

    • Cutting

    • Rolling

    • Spooning

    • Scooping

    • Sifting

    • Squeezing

    • Locking

    • Screwing

    • Cleaning

    • Scrubbing

    • Mopping

    • Vacuuming

  • Personal care

    • Grooming

    • Hand washing

    • Polishing

    • Dressing frames

    • Grace and courtesy

    • Indoor voice

    • Sharing

    • Listening

    • Taking turn

    • Manners

  • Movement

    • Walking the line

    • Exercises/calisthenics

    • Dance


SENSORIAL

  • Knobbed cylinders

  • Pink tower

  • Brown stair

  • Red rods

  • Color tablets

  • Knobless cylinders

  • Geometry cabinet

  • Geometry cards

  • Botany cabinet

  • Botany cards

  • Constructive triangles

  • Geometric figures cards

  • Geometric solids

  • Sound cylinders

  • Bells

  • Thermic bottles

  • Thermic tablets

  • Smelling jars

  • Baric tablets

  • Binomial cube

  • Trinomial cube


ARTS

  • Cutting

  • Gluing

  • Drawing

  • Painting

  • Nomenclature cards


MUSIC

  • Matching bells

  • Nomenclature cards

  • Instruments


GEOGRAPHY

  • Sandpaper globes

  • Painted globes

  • Land forms

    • Lake -> Island

    • Gulf -> Peninsula

    • Strait -> Isthmus

    • Bay -> Cape

    • Lake system -> Archipelago

  • Maps (puzzles & labels)

    • Planisphere

    • North America

    • South America

    • Europe

    • Asia

    • Africa

    • Oceania


HISTORY

  • Study of time

    • Clock

    • Calendar

    • Time lines

    • Cultures


PHYSICAL SCIENCE

  • Equipment & safe use

  • States of matter

    • Solid

    • Liquid

    • Gas

  • Water

  • Light

  • Air

  • Sound

  • Magnetism

  • Friction

  • Heat

  • Weight

  • Electricity

  • Weather

  • Rocks


ZOOLOGY

  • Living

  • Non-living

  • Vertebrates

  • Invertebrates

  • External parts of vertebrates

    • Fish

    • Amphibian

    • Reptile

    • Bird

    • Mammal


BOTANY

  • Trees

    • Types of

    • Shapes of

    • Parts of

    • Research of

  • Shrubs

    • Types of

    • Shapes of

    • Parts of

    • Research of

  • Flowers

    • Types of

    • Shapes of

    • Parts of

    • Research of

  • Plants

    • Types of

    • Shapes of

    • Parts of

    • Research of

  • Leaves

    • Types of

    • Shapes of

    • Parts of

    • Research of

  • Seeds

    • Types of

    • Shapes of

    • Parts of

    • Research of

  • Field Research

  • Gardening

    • Planting

    • Growing

    • Harvesting


PRE-READING

  • Sandpaper letters

  • Sound recognition

  • ABC board

  • Matching

    • Object -> object

    • Object -> picture

    • Picture -> picture

  • Beginning consonants

    • Phonetic object boxes

    • Short vowel sounds

  • Middle sounds/vowels

    • Short & long: a,e,i,o,u


READING

  • Blending/ending sounds

    • cons/vowel

    • cons/vowel/cons

    • cons/cons/vowel/cons

    • cons/vowel/cons/cons

    • Sequence cards

    • Opposites

  • Word recognition

    • Phonetic object boxes

    • Moveable alphabet

  • Matching

    • Picture -> word

    • Word -> word

  • Word family boxes

  • Puzzle words

  • Digraphs

  • Label the environment


GRAMMAR

    • Noun

    • Article

    • Adjective

    • Conjunction

    • Preposition

    • Verb

    • Adverb

    • Pronoun

    • Interjection


WRITING

  • History of writing

  • Moveable alphabet

    • Words

    • Sentences

    • Stories

    • Journal


HANDWRITING

  • Sandpaper letters

  • Directional letters

  • Metal insets

  • Letters

  • Manuscript

    • Uppercase

    • Lowercase

  • Cursive

    • Uppercase

    • Lowercase

  • Sandpaper numbers


MATHEMATICS

  • Numeration

  • Numbers 0-10

    • Number rods and cards

    • Sandpaper numbers

    • Spindle boxes

    • Cards and counters

    • Memory game of numbers

    • Ordinals

  • Numbers 11-99

    • Seguin tables - teens boards

    • Seguin tables - tens board

    • Hundred board

  • Numbers greater than 99

    • 100 chain

    • 1000 chain

  • Bead cabinet (short chains)

    • 1-10 squared

  • Decimal system

    • 1st presentation

    • Layout symbols

    • Formation of quantity

    • Hierarchical material

  • Golden beads

    • 4 operations, static & dynamic

  • Stamp game

    • 4 operations, static & dynamic

  • Bead frame

    • 4 operations, static & dynamic

  • Memorization

  • Addition

    • Snake game

    • Addition strip board

    • Addition charts

  • Subtraction

    • Negative snake game

    • Negative strip board

    • Subtraction charts

  • Multiplication

    • Bead bars

    • Multiplication board

    • Multiplication charts

  • Division

    • Unit division board

    • Division charts


GEOMETRY

  • Geometric solids

  • Geometry cabinet

    • Drawer 1: circles

    • Drawer 2: rectangles

    • Drawer 3: triangles

    • Drawer 4: regular polygons

    • Drawer 5: other quadrilaterals

    • Drawer 6: curved figures


FRACTIONS

  • Family names

    • Whole -> ninths


MONEY

  • Denominations

    • Dollar -> penny


TIME

  • Designations

    • Seconds -> hour

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HANDWRITING

  • Metal insets

  • Sandpaper letters

  • Manuscript

    • uppercase

    • lowercase

  • Cursive

    • uppercase

    • lowercase


SHORT PHONOGRAMS

  • a e i o u


LONG PHONOGRAMS

  • silent e

  • ai ay a-e

  • ee ea ey y e-e

  • ie igh y i-e

  • o oa ow o-e

  • ue oo ew u-e

  • ow ou

  • er ur ir

  • oi oy


BLENDS

  • vowel/cons

  • cons/vowel

  • cons/vowel/cons

  • cons/cons/vowel/cons

  • cons/vowel/cons/cons


DIGRAPH

  • ch

  • sh

  • th

  • wh

  • ph


PHONICS

  • Sight Words


WORD STUDY

  • Compound Words

  • Root Words

  • Suffixes

  • Prefixes

  • Antonyms

  • Synonyms

  • Homophones

  • Homonyms

  • Homographs

  • Capital Letters

  • Abbreviation

  • Contractions

  • Singular/Plural

  • Possessive

  • Syllabication

  • Rhyming


GRAMMAR

  • article & noun

  • adjective

  • verb

  • preposition

  • adverb

  • pronoun

  • conjunction

  • interjection

  • infinitive

  • adv phrase

  • prep phrase

  • subject

  • predicate

  • direct obj

  • indirect obj


MECHANICS OF LANGUAGE

  • punctuation

  • period

  • question mark

  • exclamation point

  • comma

  • apostrophe

  • quotation marks

  • semi-colon

  • colon

  • dash

  • parenthesis

  • All Punctuation

  • All Capitalization


RESEARCH SKILLS

  • Alphabetical Order

  • Guide words

  • Table of contents

  • Glossary

  • Index

  • Bibliography

  • Research Books

    • dictionary

    • encyclopedia

    • thesaurus

    • atlas

  • Reading

    • table

    • chart

    • graph

    • map

    • pictures

    • diagrams

  • Paraphrasing

  • Plagiarism


WRITING SKILLS

  • Sentence

    • declarative

    • imperative

    • interrogative

    • exclamatory

    • fragments

    • run-on

  • Paragraphs

    • topic sentence

    • introductory

    • concluding

  • Types of Writing

    • letters

    • poetry

    • journal

    • newspaper

    • biography

    • autobiography

    • fiction

    • non-fiction

  • Essays

    • narrative

    • descriptive

    • expository

    • persuasive

  • Editing

    • facilitated

    • peer

    • self


READING/LITERATURE

  • Word knowledge

  • Reading for content

  • Clues in context

  • Locating answers

  • Main idea

  • Sequence

  • Conclusions

  • Reading

    • poetry

    • plays

    • fiction

    • biographies

    • autobiographies

    • newspaper

  • Silent reading

  • Reading aloud


DECIMAL SYSTEM

  • golden beads

  • quantity/symbol

  • change game

  • dot game


NUMERATION

  • teens board

  • tens board

  • hundred board

  • hundred chain

  • thousand chain

  • ordinals

  • < > =

  • estimating

  • rounding


MEMORIZATION

  • addition

    • snake game

    • strip board

    • charts

  • subtraction

    • snake game

    • strip board

    • charts

  • multiplication

    • bead bars

    • mult board

    • charts

  • division

    • unit division board

    • charts

  • bead cabinet

    • squaring chains

    • cubing chains


OPERATIONS

  • Static addition

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • bead frame

    • Ø materials

  • Dynamic addition

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • bead frame

    • Ø materials

  • Static subtraction

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • bead frame

    • Ø materials

  • Dynamic subtraction

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • bead frame

    • Ø materials

  • Static multiplication

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • bead frame

    • bank game

    • checkerboard

    • Ø materials

  • Dynamic multiplication

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • bead frame

    • bank game

    • checkerboard

    • Ø materials

  • Static division

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • test tube

    • Ø materials

  • Dynamic division

    • golden beads

    • stamp game

    • test tube

    • Ø materials


DECANOMIAL

  • Vertical

  • Horizontal

  • Angular

  • Tower

  • numerical


MULTIPLES

  • 1 set of multiples

  • More than 1 set

  • Sieve of Erastothenes

  • Least common multiples

  • Greatest common factors


SQUARING

  • Forming squares 1-10

  • Analysis of a square

  • Square of a binomial

  • Square of a trinomial

  • Algebraic binomial

  • Algebraic trinomial

  • One sq to successive sq

  • One sq to non-successive sq


ALGEBRA

  • Solving equations

  • number line

  • identity/commutative

  • distributive/associative


FRACTIONS

  • Family names

    • whole

    • halves

    • thirds

    • fourths

    • fifths

    • sixths

    • sevenths

    • eighths

    • ninths

    • tenths

  • Equivalence

  • + - w/ like denom

  • + - w/ unlike denom

  • Multiplication

  • Division

  • Reducing

  • Conversion to decimals

  • Probability


DECIMALS

  • decimal board

  • addition

  • subtraction

  • dec checkerboard

  • multiplication

  • division

  • convert to fractions

  • probability


MEASUREMENT

  • Metric

    • length

    • weight

    • capacity

  • Standard

    • length

    • weight

    • capacity

  • Temperature

    • standard to metric

    • metric to standard


MONEY

  • .01 - 10.00

  • operations

  • greater than/less than

  • estimating

  • rounding


TIME

  • hour, half, quarter 5 minutes 1 minute, digital time


GEOMETRY

  • Geometric solids

  • Geometry Cabinet

    • Drawer 1: circles

    • Drawer 2: rectangles

    • Drawer 3: triangles

    • Drawer 4: polygons

    • Drawer 5: quadrilaterals

    • Drawer 6: curved figures

  • Constructive Triangles

  • Point

  • Line

  • Surface

  • Properties of Lines

  • Properties of Angles

  • Formation of regions

  • Triangles

  • Quadrilaterals

  • Circles

  • Congruency

  • Similarity

  • Equivalency

  • Perimeter

  • Area

  • Volume


ZOOLOGY

  • External

    • fish

    • amphibian

    • reptile

    • bird

    • mammal

  • Internal

    • fish

    • amphibian

    • reptile

    • bird

    • mammal

  • Animal Stories

  • First Knowledge

  • Classification

  • Comparison of Vertebrates

  • Comparison of Invertebrates

  • Protozoa

  • Porifera

  • Cnidarians

  • Platyhelminthes

  • Nematodes

  • Annelida

  • Mollusks

  • Arthropods

  • Echinoderms


BOTANY

  • First Knowledge

  • Classification

  • Plants

    • type

    • shape

    • parts

    • research

  • Seeds

    • type

    • shape

    • parts

    • research

  • Leaves

    • type

    • shape

    • parts

    • research

  • Flowers

    • type

    • shape

    • parts

    • research

  • Shrubs

    • type

    • shape

    • parts

    • research

  • Trees

    • type

    • shape

    • parts

    • research

  • Gardening


EARTH SCIENCE

  • planet earth

  • longitude/latitude

  • planets/orbits

  • astronomy

  • rocks/minerals

  • fossils

  • plate tectonics

  • erosion

  • oceans

  • weather

  • seasons

  • air/wind

  • clouds/rays

  • precipitation

  • atmosphere


CHEMISTRY

  • matter

  • forces

  • gases

  • changes

  • solutions

  • heat

  • acid or base

  • periodic table

  • proton

  • neutron

  • electron

  • molecule

  • atomic diagram


PHYSICS

  • electricity

  • magnetism

  • gravity

  • buoyancy

  • balance

  • flight

  • simple machines

  • inertia

  • motion

  • light

  • sound


GEOGRAPHY

  • Land & Water Forms

    • lake/island

    • gulf/peninsula

    • strait/isthmus

    • bay/cape

  • Parts of a river

  • Parts of a mountain

  • Parts of a volcano

  • Maps

    • north, south, east, west

    • latitude/longitude

    • legend/key

    • globe


HISTORY

  • Creation stories

  • Big bang

  • Earth history timeline

  • Timeline of people

  • Timeline of ancient history

  • Timeline of US history

  • State history

  • Personal timeline

  • Western Civilization

    • beginning of civilization

    • Greece

    • Rome

    • Middle ages

    • Renaissance

  • USA

    • explorers & settlers

    • young nation

    • industrial age

    • modern America

  • State

    • your state

    • your county


POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • Pin Maps

    • Planisphere

    • North America

    • South America

    • Africa

    • Europe

    • Asia

    • Oceania

    • United States

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HANDWRITING

  • Manuscript

    • Upper case

    • Lower case

  • Cursive

    • Upper Case

    • Lower Case


SPELLING


WORD STUDY

  • Compound Words

  • Root Word

  • Suffixes

  • Prefixes

  • Antonyms

  • Synonyms

  • Homophones

  • Homonyms

  • Homographs

  • Capital Letters

  • Abbreviation

  • Contractions

  • Singular/Plural

  • Possessive

  • Syllabication

  • Rhyming


GRAMMAR & SYMBOLS

  • Article

  • Noun

    • masculine

    • feminine

  • Adjective

    • classes

    • comparison

  • Preposition

    • simple

    • participle

  • Adverb

    • simple

    • participle

    • compound

  • Pronoun

    • personal

    • possessive

  • Interjection

  • Conjunction

    • coordination

    • correlative

    • subordination

  • Verb

    • Mood

      • indicative

      • imperative

    • Tenses

      • simple

      • compound

    • Conjugations

      • to love

      • to have

      • to be

    • Verbals

      • infinitive

      • gerund

      • participle

    • Voice

      • active

      • passive

    • Clause

      • independent

      • subordinate

    • Sentences

      • simple

      • complex

      • compound

      • compound/complex

  • Language Mechanics

    • punctuation

    • period

    • question mark

    • exclamation point

    • comma

    • apostrophe

    • quotation marks

    • semi-colon

    • colon

    • dash

    • parenthesis

    • All Punctuation

    • All Capitalization

  • Research Skills

    • Alphabetical Order

    • Guide words

    • Table of contents

    • Glossary

    • Index

    • Bibliography

    • Research Books

      • dictionary

      • encyclopedia

      • thesaurus

      • atlas

    • Reading

      • table

      • chart

      • graph

      • map

      • pictures

      • diagrams

    • Paraphrasing

    • Plagiarism

    • Internet


WRITING SKILLS

  • Sentence

    • declarative

    • imperative

    • interrogative

    • exclamatory

    • fragments

    • run-on

  • Paragraphs

    • topic sentence

    • introductory

    • concluding

  • Types of Writing

    • letters

    • poetry

    • journal

    • newspaper

    • biography

    • autobiography

    • fiction

    • non-fiction

  • Essays

    • narration

    • description

    • exposition

    • persuasion

  • Editing

    • slang

    • standard

    • first draft

    • 2nd draft


READING/LITERATURE

  • Word knowledge

  • Following clues

  • Context clues

  • Locating answers

  • Finding Facts

  • Main idea

  • Drawing conclusions

  • Detecting sequence

  • Identifying references

  • Reading

    • poetry

    • plays

    • fiction

    • biographies

    • autobiographies

    • newspaper

  • Silent reading

  • Oral reading


MATHEMATICS

  • Reading/writing numbers

    • hundreds

    • thousands

    • millions

    • billions

    • trillions

    • tenths

    • hundredths

    • thousandths

    • millionths

    • billionths

  • Greater than

  • Less than

  • Estimating

  • Rounding

    • tens

    • hundreds

    • thousands

    • millions

    • billion

    • tenths

    • hundredths

    • thousandths

    • millionths

    • billionths

  • Bead Cabinet

    • squaring chains -> 10

    • cubing chains -> 10

  • Operations

    • Static addition

      • bead frame

      • Ø materials

    • Dynamic addition

      • bead frame

      • Ø materials

    • Static subtraction

      • bead frame

      • Ø materials

    • Dynamic subtraction

      • bead frame

      • Ø materials

    • Static multiplication

      • bead frame

      • bank game

      • checkerboard

      • Ø materials

    • Dynamic multiplication

      • bead frame

      • bank game

      • checkerboard

      • Ø materials

    • Static division

      • test tube

      • Ø materials

    • Dynamic division

      • test tube

      • Ø materials

  • Problem Solving

    • 1 step problems

    • 2 step problems

    • Multiple step problems

  • Decanomial

    • Vertical

    • Horizontal

    • Angular

    • Tower

    • Arithmetical demonstration

    • Geometric demonstration

    • Algebraic demonstration

    • Solving algebraic equations

      • identity

      • commutative

      • distributive

      • associative

  • Study of Powers

    • 10 to the power: 1-6

    • Explore powers

    • Factors written as powers

  • Multiples

    • 1 set of multiples

    • More than 1 set

    • Sieve of Erastothenes

    • Least common multiples

    • Greatest common factors

    • Factor trees

    • Prime factors

  • Divisibility

    • by 2

    • by 4/5

    • by 25

    • by 9

    • Proof of 9

  • Squaring

    • Forming squares 1-10

    • Analysis of a square

    • Square of a binomial

    • Square of a trinomial

    • Algebraic binomial

    • Algebraic trinomial

    • One sq to successive sq

    • One sq to non-successive sq

  • Square Root

    • Square of a binomial

    • Square of a trinomial

    • Substitute letters for tri.

    • Symbolic square on side

    • Sq. root with golden beads

    • Sq. root with hierarchical

    • Sq. root of quad.

  • Decimals

    • Decimal board

    • Addition

    • Subtraction

    • Decimal checkerboard

    • Multiplication

    • Division

    • Conversion to fractions

  • Fractions

    • Equivalence

    • + like denom.

    • ­ like denom

    • + unlike denom.

    • ­ unlike denom

    • Multiplication

    • Division

    • Reducing

    • Comparison of fractions

    • Conversion to decimals

    • Probability

    • Progressive counting

    • Regressive counting

    • Rounding

    • Ratio & proportion

  • Percentage

    • Fraction to decimal

    • Decimal to percent

    • Percent to fraction

  • Integers

    • Vertical number line

    • Negative snake +

    • Subtraction

    • Integers < > =

    • Rules for functions

  • Other bases

    • Explore other bases

    • Reading other bases

    • Writing other bases

  • Measurement

    • Standard

      • length

      • weight

      • capacity

      • temperature

    • Metric

      • length

      • weight

      • capacity

      • temperature

  • Roman Numerals

    • I - M

    • roman -> cardinal

    • cardinal -> roman


GEOMETRY

  • Point

  • Line

  • Surface

  • Lines

  • Angles

  • Formation of regions

  • Triangles

  • Quadrilaterals

  • Polygons

  • The diagonal

  • Relationship between lines

  • Circles

  • Congruency

  • Similarity

  • Equivalency

  • Perimeter

  • Area

  • Volume


TIME

  • Addition

  • Multiplication

  • Subtraction

  • Division


ZOOLOGY

  • Vital Functions

    • nutrition

    • respiration

    • circulation

    • support

    • movement

    • sensitivity

    • preservation

    • chinese box

    • tree of life

    • five kingdoms

      • Animal

        • parts of

        • life cycle

      • Prokaryote

        • parts of

        • life cycle

      • Protoctista

        • parts of

        • life cycle

      • Fungus

        • parts of

        • life cycle

      • Plant

        • parts of

        • life cycle

  • Animal dissection


BOTANY

  • Preservation of plant life

  • Respiration

  • Excretion

  • Digestion

  • Relation

  • Circulation

  • Conservation of species

  • Reproductive functions

  • Reproducing in quantity

  • Protective functions


BIOLOGY

  • Health

  • Human body

    • respiratory

    • circulatory

    • digestive

    • excretory

    • reproductive

    • skeletal

    • nervous

    • muscles


EARTH SCIENCE

  • planet earth

  • longitude/latitude

  • planets/orbits

  • astronomy

  • rocks/minerals

  • fossils

  • plate tectonics

  • erosion

  • oceans

  • weather

  • seasons

  • air/wind

  • clouds/rays

  • precipitation

  • atmosphere


CHEMISTRY

  • matter

  • forces

  • gases

  • changes

  • solutions

  • heat

  • acid or base

  • periodic table

  • proton

  • neutron

  • electron

  • molecule

  • atomic diagram


PHYSICS

  • electricity

  • magnetism

  • gravity

  • buoyancy

  • balance

  • flight

  • simple machines

  • inertia

  • motion

  • light

  • sound


GEOGRAPHY

  • Topography

  • Location

  • Climate

  • Adv. Imaginary Island


HISTORY

  • Creation stories

  • Big bang

  • Earth history timeline

  • Timeline of people

  • Timeline of ancient history

  • Timeline of US history

  • State history

  • Personal timeline

  • Western Civilization

    • beginning of civilization

    • Greece

    • Rome

    • Middle ages

    • Renaissance

  • USA

    • explorers & settlers

    • young nation

    • industrial age

    • modern America

  • State

    • your state

    • your county


POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • Pin Maps

    • Planisphere

    • North America

    • South America

    • Africa

    • Europe

    • Asia

    • Oceania

    • United States

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