Montessori Homeschooling Manuals, Books and Links
Montessori Manuals
- Teaching Montessori in the Home: The Preschool Years by Elizabeth Hainstock.
- Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years by Elizabeth Hainstock.
- Basic Montessori: Learning Activities for Under-fives by David Gettman.
- Montessori Teachers Collective 3-6 and 6-9 albums.
- Shu Chen Jenny Yen's 3-6 albums.
- Montessori World Educational Institute 3-6 albums.
- Montessori Research and Development albums available for purchase.
- A manual of my very own progression of Montessori-like activities for teaching division by a two-or-three-digit divisor. I created these because in my opinion the Montessori racks and tubes division activities are not well designed to lead children to abstract division because the steps used to perform division with the racks and tubes are different to the steps used to perform division abstractly. My eight presentations, using the golden beads or stamp game along with coloured pencils in Montessori hierarchical colours, demonstrate division by a two-or-three-digit divisor following the steps used when performing division abstractly. Please note, I have so far only presented these activities to one child. He enjoyed the activities; the progression seemed to work very well. Presentation of the activities to different children may indicate futher editing. Please contact me if you have any suggestions.
Montessori Homeschooling Blogs and Email Discussion
- My blog: Montessori Homeschooling
- Daisy's blog: A Montessori Journey
- Playschool6, email discussion on Montessori homeschooling.
- Montessorimakers, email discussion on making Montessori materials.
- Montessori Books, email discussion on Montessori books.
Montessori Printables
Other Links
- Montessori for All, Daisy's Montessori homeschooling page.
- Montessori At Home, Becca's Montessori homeschooling page.
- New Zealand Home Education, an excellent source of information for New Zealand homeschoolers.
- Montessori World Educational Institute Australia offers teacher training workshops open to all.
Other Books
Maria Montessori
- Dr Montessori's Own Handbook - this is an excellent brief overview of Montessori, a quick read, with anecdotes from the first Montessori schools.
- The Discovery of the Child - this is one of the books that has helped me most in my homeschooling.
- The Montessori Method
- The Advanced Montessori Method volume II (also called The Montessori Elementary Material)
- From Childhood to Adolescence
- The Absorbent Mind These have been the books by Montessori most helpful in my homeschooling but all of her books that I have read I have found interesting.
Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver
- Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School by Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver.
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn.
- Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School Tell Their Own Stories edited by Grace Llewellyn.
John Holt
- How Children Fail
- How Children Learn
- Teach Your Own
Alfie Kohn
- Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
- No Contest: The Case Against Competition
Donna Bryant Goertz
- Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom - this book is a series of true stories which provide an excellent illustration of the Montessori way of being with children.
Paula Polk Lillard
- Montessori: A Modern Approach
- Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood
