What are Nomenclature Cards?
HOMESCHOOLING WITH MONTESSORI MELTING MONTESSORI INTO THE MIX As frustrating as it may seem, with true Montessori education, you will not find a commercially boxed one-size fits all curriculum with manufactured materials. When using this method of education, it is typical for each teacher to create her own album of presentations. The album is her personal plan of study in preparation to teach the child. Ellen Yale Stevens in her book, A Guide to the Montessori Method, warns that we should guard the Montessori method from a hasty, unconsidered, too literal adoption. She asks that we use Montessoris materials with flexibility and freedom while holding fast to the principles. Stevens goes on to say that It is always much easier to follow a method blindly than to make our very own the principles which it illustrates, and this [Montessori] material in its very appeal to the parent and teacher on account of its simplicity, practicality and concreteness may, in the minds of many, take the fir
