Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook

CONTENTS


PAGE
PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 1
A "CHILDREN'S HOUSE" 9
THE METHOD 17
Didactic Material for the Education of the Senses 18
Didactic Material for the Preparation of Writing
and Arithmetic 19
MOTOR EDUCATION 20
SENSORY EDUCATION 29
LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD 69
FREEDOM 77
WRITING 80
Exercises for the Management of the Instrument of
Writing 86
Exercises for the Writing of Alphabetical Signs 92
THE READING OF MUSIC 98
ARITHMETIC 102
MORAL FACTORS 114




ILLUSTRATIONS


Dr. Maria Montessori _Frontispiece_

FIG. FACING PAGE
1. Cupboard with Apparatus 12
2. The Montessori Pædometer 13
3. Frames for Lacing and Buttoning 22
4. Child Buttoning On Frame 23
5. Cylinders Decreasing in Diameter only 30
6. Cylinders Decreasing in Diameter and Height 30
7. Cylinders Decreasing in Height only 30
8. Child using Case of Cylinders 31
9. The Tower 31
10. Child Playing with Tower 31
11. The Broad Stair 36
12. The Long Stair 36
13. Board with Rough and Smooth Surfaces 37
14. Board with Gummed Strips of Paper 37
15. Wood Tablets Differing in Weight 47
Color Spools 42
16. Cabinet with Drawers to hold Geometrical Insets 44
17. Set of Six Circles 44
18. Set of Six Rectangles 45
19. Set of Six Triangles 45
20. Set of Six Polygons 46
21. Set of Six Irregular Figures 46
22. Set of Four Blanks and Two Irregular Figures 47
23. Frame to hold Geometrical Insets 48
24. Child Touching the Insets 49
25. Series of Cards with Geometrical Forms 54
26. Sound Boxes 55
27. Musical Bells 60
28. Sloping Boards to Display Set of Metal Insets 90
29. Single Sandpaper Letter 90
30. Groups of Sandpaper Letters 91
31. Box of Movable Letters 94
32. The Musical Staff 98
33. Didactic Material for Musical Reading 100
34. Didactic Material for Musical Reading 100
35. Didactic Material for Musical Reading 100
36. Didactic Material for Musical Reading 101
37. Didactic Material for Musical Reading 101
38. Didactic Material for Musical Reading 101
39. Dumb Keyboard 102
40. Diagram Illustrating Use of Numerical Rods 107
41. Counting Boxes 110
42. Arithmetic Frame 110