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hopalenik
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Posted: May 15 2008 at 10:04pm \| IP Logged

OK. I started down the Montessori track because of the practical life and too many glasses of spilled milk at dinner. Then I did some reading and found out about the whole sensorial part, which fascinated me, because my son had a disordered childhood do to all of his medical problems and a very lately discovered hearing loss. I decided that I would go the montessori route sensorially for the younger 2 and please God some more, and hope that his choosing to "play" with their "toys" might help him recover some of that order. I rightly guessed that any activity that I brought out for the 3 ds would end up being played with by everyone. So would you just spend this year focusing on understanding and learning the philosophy with the 3 yo, and leave the curricula choices alone with the older ones.? I was not doing a set curricula, just pick and choose...lots of reading and we just started some lapbooking, project work. I planned on doing some Montessori grammar with the older three straight out of her Advanced Materials Volume 2. I think my oldest needs that concrete work. And I bought the maps and was planning on doing some work with that with all of them together at first and then individually see what happens. But otherwise I was going to leave the rest of their stuff alone, till I understand better. But I am thinking of making each child a list every week and allowing them to choose how they complete that list, even though that list will mostly be workbooks with the exception of the maps and grammar trays. Can you give any other suggestion?

But I have to through in, I had tears of joy at noon today. The morning was horrible, all I asked was that everyone help with the laundry and the screams and fighting was unbelievable. Then all the sudden, I put down a mat for the boy who destroys everything (mind you he is 7) and he played with the second box of color tablets (I think he turned them into cars but I really didn't care at that time), his twin put down a mat right next to him and played with the sound cylinders, the 8 1/2 yo was reading all of the Katie art books, the 3 1/2 yo took a tray with 2 bowls and a turkey baster and played with some water at the table and the almost 2 yo played with a cheap zipper thingy. I had quiet for 10 minutes. I was in tears. My twins weren't interfering with each or the 3 yo. That is a rarity and I understand the significance of the mats now.

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Posted: May 15 2008 at 10:35pm \| IP Logged

hopalenik wrote:

So would you just spend this year focusing on understanding and learning the philosophy with the 3 yo, and leave the curricula choices alone with the older ones.?

Well, I'm no expert but that is what I'd suggest.
Honestly your plan for your older ones sounds about what I'm doing and I've researched montessori for five years, my husband insists there can not possibly be a book by or about maria montessori in existence that I have not read.

I say he exaggerates! Focus on the 3 yo and you can always learn and add things here and there as you go with the older ones.

Do share if you do any of that grammar from Advanced M. Method Vol 2! I really need to get more montessori with the language. Maybe we can plan it out together?

And thanks for the story about the mats! Inspiring!

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hopalenik
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Posted: May 16 2008 at 5:51am \| IP Logged

Hi Andrea,

I will share my plans for grammar with you at some point. My oldest is the type of child that must have lots of repetition to learn. Things don't just come to her like they seem to for my twins. I was planning on making all the boxes for grammar straight from the Volume 2 plus I bought this lovely set of Montessori grammar stories and I can't find the link at the moment with the grammar symbols. So I was planning on giving my third grader, the 4th grade Seton grammar book but spending 2 years on it. For each part of speech, I wanted to do the appropriate grammar activity first, and read the Ruth Heller and Brian Cleary book on that part of speech and then do the grammar workbook. If it takes 3 years to do that way, that is fine too. And for my twins I planned on doing the grammar boxes in conjection with the FLL. That was my plan...my twins could use her grammar lessons as planned to help with their reading since they are just 7 and seem to be reading right at that level. The oldest gets the grammar box as a tactile review. I thought that sounded like deeper and slower with an emphasis on tactile and some fun with the Brian Cleary books. Unfortunately, we have a socail worker assigned to our family who hates homeschooling, so I need some type of normalized school work just in case she feels like torturing us...the social worker comes with the medical issues our son has....

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Holly
Mom to dd 81/2, twins dd and ds (transplant as baby)7, dd 3 1/2 and dd almost 2 and 2 I hope to meet in heaven...

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