
Learn to make teaching materials and decorate Montessori classrooms, and understand how concrete 2d and 3d materials engage children through seeing, touching, and manipulating for effective learning.
Explore the advantages of material making and classroom decoration, and learn to create concrete materials to teach each topic, boosting understanding, creativity, concentration, and sensory learning through the five senses.
Create a large paper plate animal using blue fall plates, glue, scissors, and googly eyes; measure, cut, assemble ears, eyes, nose, and features, then decorate with kids' creativity.
Design the sentence game using cardboard streets, write sentences with capital letters and ending punctuation, and let children sequence sentences to read for meaning and build vocabulary.
Create Montessori compound word dominoes by cutting cardboard into two rectangles, marking root words, and linking tiles to form compound words through matching drills.
Explore 3D shape making with toothpicks and Play-Doh, building cubes and ball shapes with color options. Students name, recognize, and build more 3D shapes, including ship bases, using these materials.
Create a color finger match activity using cardboard cutouts, paints, and pegs to help children match nail colors to their fingers, supporting visual sense development for 18 months and up.
Learn how to make and use two-dimensional wall family slider materials to introduce beginning sounds, sliding letters to match word families, in a Montessori classroom setting.
Demonstrates using laminated picture cards on cardboard to teach singular and plural, guiding teachers to glue, cut, and assemble durable cutouts for classroom use.
Explore finger counting with a hands-on Montessori material that uses traceable finger outlines, cutouts, glue, and a ruler to write numbers and practice sums like 1+9 and 2+8.
Material making and classroom decoration is a course designed to educate teachers, Parents, Educational professionals on how to make teaching materials to support teaching and learning. The course will further give an insight on classroom decoration.
Teaching materials are resources teachers use to deliver instruction and support children learning especially when they are tailored to the content in which they are being used.
Material making and classroom decoration is a course that offers teachers, educators and parents the opportunity to learn the steps involved in producing teaching materials and the benefits of the materials. These materials are important because they can significantly increase children’s understanding. For example, a worksheet, a game, 2- dimensional or 3- dimensional activity based materials may provide children opportunity to practice a new skill while in class. This process aids in the learning process by allowing children to explore the knowledge independently as well as providing repetition. Learning materials, regardless of what kind, all have some function in children’s learning. Learning materials can also add important structure to lesson planning and the delivery of instruction.
In addition, the course is also design to assist practitioner on ideas of classroom decoration.
COURSE TOPICS:
The Montessori materials
Activity based materials
2- Dimensional and 3- Dimensional Teaching Aids
2- Dimensional and 3- Dimensional Art and Craft Materials.
Classroom decoration