
Explore Montessori cultural subjects—zoology, botany, science, and geography—through the absorbent mind and sensitive periods, culminating in cosmic education and global awareness.
Identify model animals like kangaroo, joey, giraffe, tiger, brown bear, llama, and donkey family; explore colors, legs, sleeps standing, and beast of burden in Australia and South America.
Reinforce animal names through a reading child activity featuring giraffe, llama, kangaroo, and tiger. A teacher-directed, control-of-error approach teaches three-year-olds with facts like the kangaroo's pouch and tiger stripes.
Explore a large picture of animals, naming the lion, seal, llama, polar bear, and zebra. Describe traits like the mane, carnivorous mammal, four legs, and zebra stripes.
Explore identifying mammals loosely grouped through a picture-matching activity, where the reading child pairs names with images like lion, koala, polar bear, and uses control cards to check accuracy.
Identify mammals grouped by their predatory diets and match pictures of tiger, jaguar, wolf, and fox to build vocabulary, classification skills, and awareness of animal similarities and differences.
Identify mammals that kill to eat through a reading-based activity, matching pictures and name tags with visual control cards for children aged three and up.
This course introduces children of Early Years to the Cultural Subjects using the Montessori Method of Education.
This Course presents to the teacher Cosmic Education, which is intended to engage the total personality of the child in an exploration of the Story of Life which includes man, animals, plants and the planet Earth. Cosmic Education incorporates cultural subjects: Geography, History, Botany, Zoology, Science, Music and Arts. These subjects feed the imagination of Children and their understanding of the world during a time when they are most sensitive to them.
There are two internal weapons that have been given to the child to aid him in his exploration of the world and the things around him; the Absorbent Mind and Sensitive Periods. These sensitivities enable the child to acquire certain skills such as language, discrimination of sensory stimuli and mental modeling through contact with the environment. The Teacher is the dynamic link between the Child and the Environment. This course offers teachers and care-givers numerous activities that can used to spark the curiosity of the child towards exploration of his world and to understand it.
The course is loaded with video presentations showing step by step procedures of how to present cultural subjects to children in the early years in an exciting and age appropriate way.