Learn about alligators from the North Carolina Zoo. Get to know Baby Cypress and all kinds of amazing facts about alligators. Afterwards, download and print the free Montessori alligator pack from Welcome to Mommyhood, complete with nomenclature cards, counting cards, and more (for ages two–lower elementary).
You can then build on this introduction to alligators with cross-curricular activities. Here are just a few examples.

Keeping it Montessori: What to Do When Schools Close – Infant/Toddler and Early Childhood
It may be said that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his psychic life. Simply by co...

Montessori Activities at Home: Lower and Upper ElementaryCulture and Language Activities
Get a bird’s-eye view of how people lived throughout history by visiting ten historical homes around the world.

Montessori Activities at Home: Upper Elementary, Cross-Curricular
Google Arts & Culture Website Command Cards
The Google Arts & Culture website offers FREE virtual museum tours, symphonies, operas, and much more that children can enjoy from h...

Talking to Children about COVID-19
Here is an essential principal of education: to teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to...

Keeping Your Montessori Community Informed: COVID-19
The news and social media outlets are full of talk about COVID-19, or corona virus. The spread of this virus and our response to it are hav...

International Day for Tolerance: Peace in the Montessori Environment
If we are among the men of good will who yearn for peace, we must lay the foundation for peace ourselves, by working for the social world...

Reading in the Montessori Environment: Young Readers Day
Can you imagine a life without books? A world without getting lost in the pages of some mythical land full of dragons or pirates or hobbit...

Presenting Native American Heritage Month in the Montessori Environment
When I started teaching in the Montessori upper elementary environment, I found myself teaching the American pre-history and the Paleo-In...
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