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This past year ds used weekly folders. This is not my blog, but it basically explains how to create folders.
http://www.chaosappreciation.com/blog/2013/07/homeschool-organization-weekly-folders/
This is pretty much how I do it with two exceptions. First, I hole punch our material and use folders with fasteners. Second, I divide our materials into 32 folders instead of 36. This builds in 10 days each semester toward our annual 180 day requirement for field trips and other stuff.
Think of each folder as 5 days of work. If you like, mark the days on the outside of the folder. If you end up spending the day in the ER, then, of course, you wouldn't do the folder that day and wouldn't mark it as having been done. You can also record other things like field trips, extra work, or PE hours on the outside of the folder.
My son really liked his weekly folder. A single folder is easy for car schooling, easy to write in, and one week of work isn't as intimidating as a giant binder full of material. Ds actually asked to do folders again this coming year!
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Can you tell her that you are just going to work on something for x minutes and that she will have the opportunity to complete or redo later in the day? I guess what I am asking is if you can schedule her day scheduling a specific amount of time for each activity and allow her time at the end of the day to perfect/ tweak/ complete things? I wouldn't discuss it or talk it to death and don't be emotional. Just state it as fact and do it like it is just something that is normal. Time's up. Ask her to hand you what she is doing and hand her the next activity.
I vote that it is better to handle it like a no-big-deal-this-is-the-way-things-are schedule than to allow it to turn into a power-play, hissy fit on her part. If she ends up relaxed, dawdling, and just completing everything at the end of the day, you will have another issue to deal with, but it just may be that she needs to be made aware of reasonable completion times. I have had this discussion with IRL friends where we discussed that in a traditional classroom a child is often somewhat unaware of the peer pacing that takes place. At home, some children need a parent to "race" them by doing the same math page together or pen pace them by point to the next problem or question and tapping on the page when they become distracted. Without peers and/ or ending class periods some children just don't have a very good sense of how long something should take or time in general. Some children honestly don't understand how they are dragging out the day by stopping to pet the cat, spending time dawdling in the bathroom, stopping in the middle of an activity to gaze out the window and pondering the clouds, feeling the need to go back read every single answer they have written, sharpening pencils that really don't need to be sharpened, etc. Some kids really do not have an internal clock that allows them to understand the passing of time, and, without changing classes or having peers as guideposts, you have to think of ways (scheduling the day, racing or pen pacing the student, using timers) to help them develop a reasonable standard completion time and/ or an internal clock.
YMMV, this is just based on my personal experiences and those of my friends and may not apply to your personal situation.
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In 4th grade, my youngest did a year of geography with a very modified WP CATW. This year, during fifth, he used World Geography and You volume 2 Eastern Hemisphere alongside ancient history. Next year, in sixth, he will use World Geography and You volume 1 Western Hemisphere while studying Western Civ from the fall of Rome through the Seven Years' War. In seventh, we will cover world history from the Seven Years' War through modern history and geography will be covered in context. In eighth grade, we will study US History and geography.
FWIW- I also really like the Holt World Geography text (or I did many years ago when my now 23yo used it. I think maybe for freshman geography?). The way I remember it the Holt text was plenty to use as a stand alone course.
Whatever you decide to use, I think a year of Earth Science and World Geography sounds like a lot of fun. :) it is not a bad decision to take a year off of history and focus on world culture, world art, and physical and political geography. Also, in doing so, you may be surprised at how much history you cover!
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Textbooks are an obvious choice. ;)
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One of our local homeschoolers is also in the semi-finals! Woot Woot!
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Go for it. I will join, but I am notoriously bad at remembering to look at the social groups. I also will go for a couple of months at a time without looking at the boards. (If I were on my computer, here is where I would insert a blushing icon.)
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The Reasons of Things is what I titled the new blog I started the beginning of the month. It is from a quote by Maria Montessori where she wrote that with upper elementary "there is an unusual demand on the part of the child to know the reasons of things." :D
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Just out of curiosity, are there any benefits to being older or just extra responsibilities? If not, maybe there should be. Otherwise the resounding answer to do you want to be treated like a 4yo is yes, and I don't blame him. That would stink.You might be on to something, he always complains that his 4yo brother doesn't have to do anything (and isn't impressed whe I remind him he didn't either at 4). I feel like I'm spending so much time with him already! But you might be right...
The flip side is- why doesn't the 4yo have to do anything? Did the 6yo never have to do anything at all before starting school? If so, maybe that is why is balking? Maybe he needed a transition of doing little things before going from nothing to full blown school. Why can't the 4yo memorize poetry with him? Start with nursery rhymes and simple songs, and have them work together.
Then, let the older one stay up half an hour later than the 4yo if he reads to you. If he doesn't want to read he can go to bed, too. Isn't this what Jessie Wise did with her kids about nap time? Do you want to take a nap or stay up and read? ;)
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Mandy
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Centers is the only word I could think of that would apply other than a Montessori shelf. :) Maybe there is a better word for keeping everything for a single topic within a subject out and together, but in the posts above I just said shelf. So, for example, once I collect all the supplies, books, etc for chemistry and create or purchase task cards of what needs to be done, I want to organize all those things in a single, easily accessible area. Then, I can introduce the material, and Doodle and I can sit down and create a workplan for him to finish in a determined amount of time. After this, it will be Doodle's responsibility to spend time engaging with the center/ shelf/ whatever and completing whatever goals are outlined in his workplan.
I don't know if this is helping you, but it is really helping me think through things.
Thx for the thread!
Mandy
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The very definition of secular is without religion or spirituality, so by definition a secular homeschool conference would not have religious curriculum/ vendors.But not all secular homeschoolers disbelieve. This group took pains to define secularism, so I would think they would recognize that. What's with the "about" statement then? Bait? LOL We're all equal. It's all good. And now we're going to talk about you like you are a bunch of idiots. Fun times!
As a not-a-Christian, I don't think it is hypocritical to say that the exclusive filter they have put in place by their own talk is also filtering out acceptance and open-mindedness from otherwise like-minded people. If the group was merely not-inclusive, that wouldn't bother me. If it was simply secular, without baggage (just secular, without an agenda broader than promoting curricula free from religion), I would be super stoked. I would be so excited about that. I would want local chapters to spring up! They have the right to be exclusive in whatever way they want, sure. But it seems to me that they are exclusive in exactly the same way the religious homeschool groups are exclusive, and I'm sad about that.
As to the rest, I get you. Really, I do. Why inappropriate? Why not try to appeal to a larger group of people who simply don't want religion in their homeschool or want to use homeschool materials that are free from religion? I am not sure why except to say that the organizers live a certain homeschooling lifestyle and want to attract either similar families or families who are forewarned about what will follow. Maybe they are wanting to build a community of friends similar to themselves rather than just a collection of strangers who show up to functions that they spend time and money to organize?
OTOH- exclusive is exclusive. It limits who is a member. A Christian Bible study group would be exclusively Christian, and a secular support group would be exclusively secular by definition. A Christian group will discuss why the members are Christian, why they want to stay Christian, why it is wrong to not be Christian. A secular group will discuss those same things just replace the word Christian with the word secular. As an adult, I have come to realize that people typically clump together based on similarities not differences. People like to feel accepted for who they are and not be defined by being the one thing not like the others. And honestly, since the Christian homeschool community is becoming more exclusive by the minute. If something isn't organized, then my child will have nowhere to go. Most of the activities planned outside of the Christian community are open to everyone. I don't recall. Is there anything about the secular convention that says you must not be Christian to attend?
This group is an exclusive support group for them. Their exclusive support group has decided to organize a conference. They are being clear about what they have organized and are inviting likeminded people to join them. I applaud them for wanting something and making it happen.
I really do like my inclusive groups for chat, but I see a real benefit to a convention with only secular vendors. A convention where I wouldn't have to figure out which vendors I can talk to without wasting my time. Really, do you want a convention where there are little crosses or some tags that differentiate between what religion the product represents or might offend?
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Thx, for the reminder that for workplans ds should be creating that schedule with my assistance rather than creating a schedule and handing it to him! This past year we had a work contracts that I stuck on the frig. I have looked at the workplans you linked. Those are the ones that sort of remind me of a table of contents in a textbook. lolThank you so much for your posts! I actually started Montessori training about 1.5 years ago or so and had to drop out for a number of reasons. I have been debating on how exactly to implement more of Montessori's ideas into our work this year.
Also, Erdkinder school webpages are a wealth of information. Some of them have their homework assignments, book lists, and program details online. That really has given me a good inside look on how modern Erdkinders are run and for comparison to my kids' work.
For planners, children of this age group would ideally be involved in planning their own work out from a list of work that needs to be done, and options for further exploration. I would write out a scope & sequence of what you have, create some general forms (or use lined paper) and have the child make a work contract. They have a mini meeting with you where you discuss what needs done for that week, and they plot out how they should do it and any preparations they need (time for turing in a rough draft for help, etc.).
ETA: Workplan sheets for Elementary here, for an example: http://www.montessoriforeveryone.com/Elementary-Workplans-Teacher-Tools_ep_62-1.html
To use traditional school lingo, I think that what I am visualizing is having his subjects (at least the content subjects of science and social studies) set up in centers (of course modified to fit our home) that we change periodically where everything is available and basic output/ expected tasks to be completed are either obvious, there are task cards, and/ or there are workplans in place that allow him to successfully navigate, research, and expand on that topic however he determines without my constant interference. He is not like my oldest who you could give a single word and then he would research it independently out the wazoo. He needs a little more structure- a little more front end presentation and some materials already assembled to get the ball rolling. However, he still wants me to get out of his way at some point. In his eyes, you can see the point where I am really just hindering his progress.
He grows and changes, and I want to change to help rather than hinder him in his goals.
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That is about the size of our gameroom/ office/ homeschool stuff space. It isn't as big as you think once you stick a 2.3 x .75m farm table in it! After you add a couch and shelving, that is about it. So, think about how small everything can be and still handle what you want it to accomplish. I had to use what we already owned, but if I were able to start from scratch I would have smaller pieces. I still wouldn't build-in anything, because it limits how you can move things. It limits seating arrangements as well as future use of the space.
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Definitely, go for it! One of the biggest benefits of homeschooling Doodle is that we can shift our schedule to more closely match dh's. :)
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Where are you getting your information? Maybe I didn't read enough on their site...
Look at the Inappropriate Homeschooler's blog and FB page. ;)
Trust me- I am all for creating a secular space. I don't think an inclusive space is good enough, because, frankly, no matter what some Christians say about wanting inclusive groups, when push comes to shove, they are both still pushing their Christian agenda and still going to church on Sunday away from secular people. This group is about more than what product they are using for math. It is their time with just secular families just like your time at church is your time with just Christian families.
I am a member of several inclusive groups and have some great friendships with people who are walking a very different journey from mine, but it is lovely to have a group of women who don't have saving me on their to do list, never mention what went on at church group, and whenever they discuss timelines there is no need to clarify that it is old earth.
If you join the FB group and start talking about how you want all homeschoolers to hold your Christian hand and join together in homeschool brotherhood, expect them to tell you to hop on your Christian cross and ride it back to from whence you came that this particular space is for secular homeschool brotherhood.
These women are those whose children can't participate in events because those children refuse to write a statement explaining their personal relationship with Jesus Christ. There is going to be irreverence at best. At worst, there will be outright slamming of the Christian homeschool community. You can think of this community of non-believers as their church of disbelief. As a Christian, it would be hypocritical to tell them they shouldn't be allowed to be exclusive when you aren't demanding that on Sunday afternoon your church stop talking about Jesus so that the pagans will feel more accepted at the picnic.
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Oh, I don't think that secular products are anti-Christian, but some Christians may disagree. Secular products will be free of religion. And, this convention has promised only secular vendors.
However, this group is secular, not religious, on steroids. They are not interested in an inclusive membership- particularly not Christian. Expect to be flamed if you start up with some Jesus loves you, koombahyah, I'll pray for you stuff.
Frankly, I am in a place where I understand wanting a safe spot, somewhere to relax without religion.
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This group is not an inclusive group. It is secular, but it is also anti-Christian. These are secular ladies who are stuck in the South-East and have been told one too many times that they can't participate without a letter from their pastor. I am being literal. More and more organizations, co-ops, and tutorials will not let you participate if you are not Protestant and come with a letter from your pastor stating that you are an active member of a congregation. They include wording about the Bible in their statement of faith that excludes Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Mormons. Now, imagine you are pagan or agnostic or atheist and live in this area. These ladies are just exhausted. They want a convention where there are exactly zero Christian sellers. They want to be surrounded by people who are neither going to pray over their kids nor tell them they are going to hell.
I get it. Really, I do. I know it is reactive, but honestly I understand. I want to be able to talk about science and not have someone try to explain to me that creationism is science. I want there to be some place with other homeschoolers where I am not a minority because I am not wearing a cross around my neck and no one looks at me like I have three heads when I say I am avoiding Christian homeschool materials. I live in the South-East, and I am exhausted. I am in several inclusive groups, but sometimes- I suppose like Christians going to church on Sunday- I just want to hang out with people who have a lack of belief or at least never mention their Protestant beliefs.
I wasn't this way even a couple of years ago and perhaps I won't be this way a couple of years from now. Things have happened in my local area, and I just don't want my family associated with the Protestant homeschool community. I wouldn't want anyone to think for even an instant that I am part of that.
So- I do think there is a need for a truly secular, no religion present, homeschool convention, and a secular homeschool group. Really, I also understand the let's all unite under the flag of homeschooling sentiment, but as soon as you unfurl that flag some Protestant will ruin the moment by feeling the need to pray under it. <sigh>
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I feel like she took the classical model that was in use at the time and reinterpreted it in such a way as to take into account the person who was being educated as a whole person and that person's mind wasn't "a mere sac to hold ideas." This would make her the original neo-classical educator.
Maybe this article, "Towards a Defense of Charlotte Mason Education," will help.
Andrew Kern’ s definition of classical education: "Classical education is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue by nourishing the soul on truth, goodness, and beauty by means of the seven liberal arts and the four sciences,†can be found perfectly, practically implemented in Charlotte Mason’s own PUO schools and the homes of many families following her ideas today.
<shrug> If this doesn't clarify, feel free to hop on every thread that says CM is classical and heartily disagree.
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Eliza, here is a rather lengthy post by Susan Wise Bauer comparing The Well-Trained Mind and some versions of Charlotte Mason.
By what definition of classical education, is Charlotte Mason not classical?
Here is a 1908 schedule from Charlotte Mason's Parents' Union School.
For reference, Class II children were 9yo-11yo. Yes, those 9yo-11yo students were doing seatwork from 9-12. In addition to dictation, reading, writing, and arithmetic, they were studying French, German, and Latin. They were reading Plutarch and studying French history in addition to English history. They were studying geography, natural history, and nature lore. They were reading the Old Testament, the New Testament, and poetry. They participated in drill (organized exercise) and sol-fa (sight singing). They had a ten minute break in the middle of those three hours.
After everything on the school schedule, these children spent part of the afternoon outdoors as naturalists observing and recording their world; they practiced instruments; they read; they wrote, presented, and defended papers with their peers; they did picture studies; and they did handicrafts.
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http://firstheralds.com/charlotte-mason/charlotte-mason-education/
This is a lovely summary of Charlotte Mason.
CM is an educational philosophy. TWTM is a how-to manual for classical education. CM herself was a classical educator. There is no reason why you can't take the things that appeal to you from CM and use those with many of the suggestions in TWTM. :)
There is no reason to be a purist in your homeschool. Do whatever works with philosophy, method, and curriculum. Adapt it all and make it your own. My educational/ child-rearing philosophy is adapted almost solely from Charlotte Mason. CM is what resonates with how I think about my children, education, and my home. When I use products (in a ideal world), I like to bring everything together using CM, Montessori, and a bit of Waldorf. The products themselves are all over the map. How we use them is what makes them ours.
Here is a blog post I did that is one of my favorites for showing how I would like to pull things together. I wish I was always this on the ball.
Next year, the main thing I want to include from Montessori is that within the content areas of science and social studies everything for a topic should be organized and in one spot with task cards, a workplan, a schedule attached to a work journal, or obvious things to do that Doodle can work through independently. I would like the display shelf to be uncluttered, housing nothing that is unrelated to the topic being studied, and visually appealing. This way I can do an introductory presentation and then just set him loose. The front end preparation is much greater than CM, but not as great as the pressure I feel to always to be the omniscient storyteller when I am preparing to use something with a Waldorf-esque flair. I just need to wrap my brain around coming up with interesting visual output, because he liked the stuff that our extra student Mei did when she was in sixth grade.
(FWIW, The Big History Project is designed for jr/sr high and does not mention Montessori anywhere, that I see, on their website. However, it is definitely similar to the Five Great Lessons taught in Montessori schools.)
Within the skill area of language arts, I am considering incorporating some Montessori sentence analysis. Even if I don't use Montessori materials, I enjoyed reading Chapter 12 of The Advanced Montessori Method. I am planning to do literary elements through short stories, but, while I am of the understanding that this sort of thing is done in Montessori, I have not seen a teaching album for how a Montessori teacher presents this information. I am winging it with traditional materials that I am finding online. Here is everything currently tagged Literary Elements on my new Montessori blog.
Within the skill area of math, I am considering purchasing a pass word to Crewton Ramone's House of Math. It isn't exactly Montessori, but it is Montessori inspired. It looks like Doodle could spend some time looking at visual/ hands-on representations of some higher level concepts. I don't know about this one. Doodle may go for it, or he may shoot it down. It will be at least a couple of weeks before I get around to discussing this one.
The Montessori idea that having the teacher too much in the picture can actually hinder a student is one that is limited to ages 3-6 or even in high school. It is what I hope to take this year and apply, at the very least, to some aspect of Doodle's content subjects.
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Mandy
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FWIW- our personal journey has of late been the opposite of yours. lol I am wanting to remove all the Christian dogma and approach education/ life from a more humanistic worldview. ;)
Recently, I have been feeling like Doodle's childhood has flown by, and, while he was tagging along with his much older brothers, he missed out on some of the things of childhood. Maria Montessori definitely wrote detailed material through grade six, and, while I was pondering Doodle's situation, I met someone who is Montessori homeschooling. During all of this, I was also purging all our old homeschool stuff, and, while perusing his old stuff, Doodle commented that we did cooler stuff a couple of years ago when we had an extra student. Then, Rose from here said she was using The Big History Project with her dd next year. When I checked that out, I read an article by a Montessori teacher comparing BHP to Montessori's Great Lessons. The Great Lessons are typically covered at the beginning of first through third grade, but I saw an article that said in integrated multi-age classrooms the upper elementary kids are welcome to join in. So, I had BHP and two Montessori articles about the Great Lessons, a new acquaintance using Montessori, me feeling like Doodle's childhood had missed something, and Doodle verbalizing that he that our old homeschool stuff was cooler than now. Everything sort of clicked, and our next year is in some ways going to be very different, more Montessori, than the past couple of years.
I am actually a Charlotte Mason person at heart, but I think Doodle will really enjoy what I am planning. I sure hope so, because Montessori stuff is very teacher intensive!
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Alrighty, :), sorry for the detour. What I am hearing is that you want her to use TWTM more independently and to that end you would like to give her a weekly checklist because she used a weekly checklist at her Montessori school and liked it. Is this correct?
If so, it sounds like you just need to type everything you want her to do for the week into a spreadsheet. I would organize if by subject, so that she can see everything she needs to finish in math and then everything she needs to finish in science and so on. Then, allow her to choose what she does. When she completes something, she checks it off the list.
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I know very, very little about Montessori, and a month or so ago I knew even less. So, don’t take my word for anything.
Maria Montessori created pretty detailed information for elementary students ages 6-12. So, for example there is a smattering of stuff online for Montessori advanced sentence analysis, but the most helpful thing I read was Chapter 12 of The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori.
In a Montessori classroom there will be organized, attractive, prepared materials that encourage independent learning.
There seems to be a wealth of Montessori materials online- some are relatively expensive and some are DIY or free for download. There are plenty of scope and sequence lists that give you an idea of how Montessori schools have divided the materials, skills, ideas among American fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. I listed some above. In reality, these three grades are in a room together. However, if you are totally uninterested in a Montessori scope and sequence, you can always just search for what you want. Something like- Montessori “upper elementary†geometry materials- should turn up a ton of stuff. This material switched out periodically (monthly, every six weeks).
The Montessori teacher does a presentation with the new materials or idea.
Teacher’s albums contain to how-to/ presentation information, and this is what I have had a harder time finding. lol So, you can find plenty and even free for downloads sentence analysis material, but you may need to piecemeal the presentation for sentence analysis from several places to get an idea of how to introduce all the materials.
After the presentation, the teacher may hand out workplans.
Basically, a workplan can be a very general, monthly/ six week plan or sometimes a weekly checklist of things to do. In a classroom, this may help a child remember to diversify his work, so that, if he really likes the current science shelf, he still remembers to do other things. In your home, I would suppose you could require a student to work with certain materials daily or twice a week, but the goal of a workplan isn’t to tell a student what to do on Wednesday at 11:15. The goal is merely to provide guidance as to what all is out there in order to further encourage the student to take responsibility for his own work. However, some Montessori classrooms do not use workplans. There is actually a debate over whether workplans discourage choice and therefore actually take away responsibility. There is also the feeling that workplans may encourage competition in the classroom, something that is very un-Montessori. Anyway, you can’t create a checklist without first having the materials and knowing how to present them.
Do a google image search for Montessori upper elementary workplans. Most of them are very vague. If they have a heading for science, what is listed below that may look like the table of contents from the botany section of a textbook. Some that are meant for longer periods like a month or six weeks may just look like a list of everything that is on that shelf. So, it may say something like: Complete Task Cards (the task cards may include things like research and write a report on one of the following, complete this mapping activity, etc.), work with nomenclature cards, read a book on <blank> subject, etc.
Rather than or alongside a workplan, a student can create a work journal. You can think of this like notebooking or like a Charlotte Mason Century Book or a Waldorf student’s main lesson book.
After the instructor has presented the materials and/ or ideas and maybe handed out workplans, the student then navigates the material more or less independently. The teacher is more like a guide who is available only if necessary. There is a lot of positive peer pressure/ guidance from peers that can’t be recreated in a homeschool class of one. So, at home the teacher sometimes needs to become another student who takes out some materials and strews them on a floor mat and plays with them for a minute so the student can see those materials in use. There are plenty of homeschool blogs that explain, discuss explicitly or show implicitly, how families have adapted Montessori for their homes.
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Mandy
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This is a blog post explaining when to and how to cover The Fundamental Needs of People.
http://whatdidwedoallday.blogspot.com/2013/09/montessori-elementary-fundamental-needs.html
For example, this could be covered on the geography/ geology shelf, alongside history, or even alongside life science human anatomy.
Fundamental Needs of People Chart:
From this blog, “Here is a blank chart of some fundamental needs. There are numbers of charts out on the internet, but this is how I plan to discuss these topics. I plan to use a huge piece of butcher paper and to have the kids cut out pictures from old National Geographic magazines to create a homemade chart.†-
Things for a chemistry shelf:
The Elements: An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table (100 Ponderables) by Tom Jackson (contains a giant timeline)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0985323035/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_hw6Atb0EGY0BJQTH
The Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin D. Wiker (This may be redundant alongside An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table, but I own it, so it is going on the shelf.)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/188393771X/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_pt9ztb1A20D8DFYD
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1579128955/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_LA6Atb0VDDM09F3J
Theodore Gray's Elements Vault: Treasures of the Periodic Table with Removable Archival Documents and Real Element Samples - Including Pure Gold! by Theodore Gray
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1579128807/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_Vy6Atb15TD5GY76K
The Photographic Card Deck of The Elements: With Big Beautiful Photographs of All 118 Elements in the Periodic Table by Theodore Gray
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1603761985/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_zx6Atb1024KAAPZB
The Dangerous Book for Boys Classic Chemistry Science Kit
I also have Real Science 4 Kids High School Chemistry and Spectrum Chemistry to put out for reference.
ck-12- any users? how does it work?
in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
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We used some of the CK-12 Earth Science this spring alongside the 2003 update o The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson, a biography of Rachel Carson, and the DVD American Experience: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. I just went to ck12.org/browse and clicked on science and then Earth Science. Once there, I clicked on whatever topic I wanted, and we used some of the stuff available. ;)
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Mandy