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How are you approaching this topic? Are you teaching it along with your continent studies? Along with your history studies?
I'd love to make a felt board for this, and have some things to talk about for each continent.
Any ideas?
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Well I am planning on presenting it as a key lesson of Great Lesson 3, but I think it would go great with continent study too. I'll probably focus on the geographical study with my 5 and 3 year old and get into the historical with my 8 -year-old.
I haven't come up with any concrete plans yet- I am making this up as I go along and I'm still on Great Lesson 1. I am digging the Great Lessons as a spine method.
I thought I saw some cards for this at Montessori123, they have a bunch of stuff if you search for "fundamental needs" I like this sorting game
I have the fundamental needs chart from Montessori for Everyone and have also printed the free fundamental needs through history cards from the files at mm_share yahoo list.
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Thanks Andrea! How are you teaching using the Great Lessons?
One of the teaching tips in the book I'm reading about using Montessori with special needs kids says to "Make the timeline of life on earth vibrate with energy and action in the children's imaginations."
Wow! Now that's what I have in mind, but how to do it?
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Fixed your links  Great sites, and how about that first day back, nice job Andrea!!
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I am teaching it along with geography as dd is not really ready for history yet.
I have a great DK book called A Life Like Mine: how children live around the world, which is organized in roughly the same way as the fundamental needs. It looks at children worldwide and how their needs are met for water, food, shelter, health care, education, protection(rather than defense),religion,and expression, etc. Like most DK books it has wonderful photos and engaging text. I especially like the "profiles" of a particular child in each section.
We will begin reading together a section a day to begin our geography time. I think we may add color copies of pictures of the profiled children from the book to our map materials as we go.
ETA: here is a link to the book:A Life Like Mine
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I am also trying to make some cards like the ones Andrea linked. This was the idea behind making the Mothers and Babies cards and the Homes around the World cards that I linked to previously. I am currently working on food/water and clothing cards, but the set at M123 looks like a great set and much easier than making my own. Too bad it isn't in the budget!Plus, I really want it to be geography-based, not history-based.
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Gosh that stuff at M123 looks so nice! I'd really like to get some of those things and just laminate myself.
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Land O' Cotton wrote:
One of the teaching tips in the book I'm reading about using Montessori with special needs kids says to "Make the timeline of life on earth vibrate with energy and action in the children's imaginations."
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Wow! Now that's what I have in mind, but how to do it?
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Vicki, are you reading Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful? I just read that bit yesterday, and also wondered who to do it
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In my training, we were encouraged to introduce the fundamental needs of people by telling the story of Robinson Crusoe. I always told it rather than reading it, and really drove home the idea of being on an island with absolutely nothing.
Then you ask the kids, "What would you need to survive" and watch them begin to understand the difference between a want (toys, furniture) and a need (food, water).
You start to branch out then and talk about the different categories of needs (shelter, clothing, medical care) and what belongs in each category.
Then, you can hand out magazines like Home & Garden and have them cut out pictures of things they need. They can make their own poster of the fundamental needs.
Survival books are a very popular category of juvenile literature - they resonate so deeply with the struggle for independence that all children face. Other books that deal with survival are Call It Courage (my personal favorite), Julie of the Wolves, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and My Side of the Mountain. These are all great for reading aloud to the elementary crowd. They can be read throughout the year to keep the idea of needs/wants fresh in everyone's minds.
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Thank you so much for that beautiful explanation, Lori! That helps me get the idea in my mind of how to get started.
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montessori_lori wrote:
Then, you can hand out magazines like Home & Garden and have them cut out pictures of things they need. They can make their own poster of the fundamental needs.
Survival books are a very popular category of juvenile literature - they resonate so deeply with the struggle for independence that all children face. Other books that deal with survival are Call It Courage (my personal favorite), Julie of the Wolves, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and My Side of the Mountain. These are all great for reading aloud to the elementary crowd. They can be read throughout the year to keep the idea of needs/wants fresh in everyone's minds. |
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This is great and what we are planning to do on a large poster that we will all build togther as I have the differing age ranges!!
Those are ALL favorites of my daughter and oldest son. I think my dd has read all the Julie books two time through and My Side of the Mountain three times  We also love Sign of the Beaver here as well! Thanks for sharing your ideas Lori, they are always so helpful!
Blessings!
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Older kids get really into it - especially if they've seen Lost =) I've heard creative ideas about building shelter, making fresh water, and all sorts of other things. Glad to help!
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Thanks for fixing my links, Meredith- I must have been typing to fast- trying to keep my computer time to a minimum now that school is in session. Any way as far as the Great Lessons, I got my info from Miss Barbara's and MTC, I would have liked to order the CD-roms available from Miss Barbara's (and if anyone does please come here and report!) but the budget was gone so I used the free info and did my best. I have some pictures and links to the above sites on my blog, under "First Day of School". The First Lesson went better then I hoped, so I guess we'll see about the other four.
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Looks like ya'll had a busy and productive (and fun!) first day!
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We just started a new book, The Adventures of Benjamin Pink by Garth Williams. I didn't realize this until tonight, but so far the book is setting up nicely for a demonstration of the fundamental needs. It's a story about a rabbit who goes off to catch a fish for dinner for his wife, then becomes stranded on a deserted island after becoming lost at sea in a storm.
This is such a cute story. I found this book (as always) at a thrift store for 50 cents, but it's probably found at the library too. As a side note, Garth Williams is the illustrator of the Little House books. He illustrated this book as well.
Tomorrow we'll make a chart (fundamental needs) and add to it as we venture further into the story.
Thanks, Lori, for posting about the use of the Robinson Crusoe story. It was your post that turned the light bulb on as to how I could use this book in the same way. 
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