Lessons and Activities: 15-18 months
A Language Game With Feeding Objects: motor and cognitive development,
indirect preparation for putting activities away.
A Language Game With Object Descriptions: practice listening skills, develop
concentration skills.
Warm and Cold activity: (includes graphics) language expansion, experience
and develop sense of temperature.
Putting In and Taking Out activities: (includes graphics) teaches sorting skills;
coordination of hands and eyes (hand-eye skills).
Putting In and Taking Out Sequence I (includes graphics)
Putting In and Taking Out Sequence II (includes graphics)
Putting In and Taking Out Sequence III (includes graphics)
Fun Paper Activities: teaches art and practical life skills, fine motor development,
hand-eye coordination.
Stacking Activities: (includes graphics) indirect preparation for nesting and block
play, coordinating fine and large motor movements, balancing.
Objects In Lidded Container and Make Your Own (includes graphics) early
practical life skills, teaches object permanence, hand-eye coordination, and fine
motor development.
Pulling Objects From Lidded Containers (includes graphics) early practical life
skills, teaches object permanence, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor
development (pulling).
Lessons and Activities: 18-24 months
Beginning Counting (includes graphics) listening skills, beginning rhythm and counting skills.
Mystery Bag game (includes graphics) develop stereognostic sense, line up objects from left to right, (pre-reading skill).
The Nature Basket (includes graphics) practice large and fine motor movement (walking, bending, grasping, holding...), promote focus and concentration, and develop language.
Nesting (includes graphics) early sensorial activity for fine motor development and visual discrimination.
Open & Close Activity Boxes and Lids (includes graphics) a practical life activity for fine motor movement development.
Sponge Activity (includes graphics) early practical life experience using sponge, water, and squeezing with hands, visual and fine motor development.
Water Pouring early practical life experience with water, develops hand-eye coordination.
Wipe Your Nose fine motor development and independence, care of self.
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Montessori Method 0-3 Link
Quick Reference!
Curriculum information taken from Montessori for the Earth
* Infant (3-18 mos.)
* Tots (18-24 mos.)
* Toddler (24-36 mos.)
Infant Lessons and Activities: 0-8 months
Infant Visual Interactions and Activities: stimulate your baby to look at, focus,
and concentrate her vision on objects, drawings, and pictures; teach object
permanence and self awareness.
Songs and Nursery Rhymes: language and auditory development.
Tracking: develop visual focus on various shapes and colors.
Grasping: focus visually on shapes and colors to develop hand-eye coordination.
Rolling Over: coordination, focus on body movement.
Tactile Activities: (includes graphics) sensorial, tactile focus on objects and
human faces to develop sense of touch, and experience of different textures.
Single Object Cognition activity: (includes graphic), introduces color and shape
awareness, enhances curiosity, and develops motor and concentration skills.
Infant Social Interactions and Activities: develope concept of self (apart from
mom) and ability to focus on others through cooperation and taking turns.
Names of Single Objects game: teach new words and help develop vision and
concentration skills.
Parts of the Face Language game: develop social skills, sense of self (apart
from mom), and awareness of the body; increase and develop vocabulary.
Fun With Fabrics: (includes graphics) encourage exploration using vision and fine motor skills, develop sense of touch.
Reading to Infants: (includes graphics) identify a familiar object in a book; visual,
fine motor, and language development.
Sound Bottles: (includes graphics) build fine motor skills, early language and
auditory development.
Object Location activity--(includes graphics) develop object permanence.
The Treasure Basket: (includes graphics) promote independence, enhance
curiosity, and develop focus and concentration.
Pot & Utensils: (includes graphics) develop auditory discrimination and fine
motor movement (hand and eye coordination).
Lessons and Activities: 9-12 months
Pattern Booklet: (includes graphics) develops vision and concentration skills.
Hide an Object game: (includes graphics) reinforces object permanence, a
cognitive skill.
Pincer Grasp: (includes graphics) develops visual perception, focus, and
concentration.
Working on a Bench at a Table: (includes graphics) indirect preparation for
Montessori lessons and activities.
Noise Makers: auditory and early language development and fine motor skills.
Placing Spoons in a Bowl: (includes graphics) develops fine motor and future
sorting and counting skills.
Rhythms: (includes graphics) experience rhythms in songs, develops listening
skills.
Exploring Various Food Textures: (includes graphics) develops hand and eye
coordination and visual perception.
Scarf Game: (includes graphics) social development through cooperation (playing
a game), coordination and balance control.