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Posted: Sept 24 2007 at 1:27pm | IP Logged Quote nicole-amdg
I am trying to learn about Montessori in the home, for my little ones especially. They're a high-spirited bunch, and I would like to hear what this approach has to say about training them and ordering their environment. If there's anything about training the middle to older ones to self-direct then I could use that too. I am pretty much suffering from blog fatigue, curriculum fatigue, forum fatigue and Google fatigue, and the limited stuff I have found so far has been, well, I guess I'd call it simplistic--sort of a "Montessori is everything you do in real life" kind of tome. I would like something accessible, applicable, yes, but with a little bit of meat on its bones. Can anyone recommend some reading or resources for me? How or where would you recommend that I begin?

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I really like the Gettman book,
Basic Montessori: Learning Activities for under fives
It has a good bit of meat in it without being overwhelming. I especially appreciated the math section. I definitely did not feel like I was wasting my time reading it, like I did with some other books.
I have yet to find anything as good for upper levels, but there are many books I have not read yet.

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