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Montessori Lessons and Curriculum for the Elementary Years
Academic Courses
Montessori Academic Courses
We offer Montessori elementary lessons and curriculum through our courses with sequenced easy-to-follow lessons to help your children reach targeted instructional goals. We help you to understand Montessori philosophy, manipulative materials, and lessons through guided modules that include videos, printable materials, and more. We help you apply that knowledge confidently when teaching your children through lessons that include step-by-step instructions, guided and independent practice opportunities, and ways to check for understanding.
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Montessori Multiplication Facts Mastery
Master the Multiplication Times Tables the Montessori way with hands-on materials, easy-to-follow video lessons, games, rhyming cartoons, memorization strategies, interactive quizzes, and progress tracking.
Lesson Videos
Watch Owl Tree Montessori Channel
The Owl Tree Montessori YouTube channel offers quality, authentic Montessori elementary lessons and curriculum for parents, teachers, and tutors to use with their children. Our goal is to present lessons with clear, easy-to-follow instructions that offer both guided and independent practice for immediate application. We want to help you understand the Montessori materials and how to use them.
Inspirational Blog
Inspiration for engaging the whole brain in a multi-sensory way, encouraging meaningful interest-led learning, and instilling a lifelong love of learning in your children.
Guidance to understand and apply Montessori elementary lessons and curriculum materials with easy-to-follow lessons, targeted learning goals, and support for struggling and advanced learners alike.
Wherever you are on your educational journey, whether you are a homeschooler or a classroom teacher of elementary-age children, we want to support you.
Recent Blog Posts
Montessori
The Montessori Elementary Curriculum
The Montessori elementary curriculum is vast, the width and breadth of which I have not fully explored in 20+ years of teaching. Each year I find myself overwhelmed looking at the behemoth of the science and cultural curriculum integrated with math, language, reading,...
Math
How to Use the Montessori Geometry Stick Box
The Montessori Geometry Stick Box contains wooden sticks of different lengths and colors with holes at each end allowing them to be connected to create any shape or angle needed in geometry investigation. This math material makes geometry concepts beautifully visual...
Language
How To Use the Montessori Moveable Alphabet
The Montessori Moveable Alphabet is a box of letter cutouts for each of the 26 letters in the English alphabet. Children take the letters out, put them together, and move them around to form words and sentences. There are multiples of each letter to allow several...
Homeschooling
How to Plan a Homeschool Welcome Fall Party
Fall evokes cozy feelings of warmth and light as we gather around traditions and comfort. The days grow cooler and shorter. We welcome the change with cozy blankets, flickering scented candles, flavors of spiced apple and pumpkin, and an appreciation for the...
First Week Homeschool Activities
The first week back to homeschool sets the tone for the rest of the school year. Fortunately, enthusiasm and excitement naturally accompany the first days of school! We only have to capitalize on that excitement with first-week homeschool activities! I wrote a...
Homeschool Room Ideas
Setting up your homeschool classroom can be the most fun...and the most intimidating part of homeschooling! Whether you have a dedicated homeschool room or no homeschool room, basic elements run throughout the setup process. New and interesting homeschool room ideas...
First Day Homeschool Activities
The first day of school is so much fun! The fresh feeling of unlimited possibilities. It can also be uncertain for students and teachers not knowing what to expect, and how it will go. This is true in traditional, Montessori, and homeschool classrooms. Plan first-day...
Back to Homeschool Planning
Planning for a new homeschool year and preparing for the first day sets off tingles of anticipation! At times it also evokes intimidation and overwhelm. Let’s plan your homeschool year together!Identify Your Goals. Set Your Intention.In the stillness of ebbing summer,...
How to Start Homeschooling This Year
Can I Start Homeschooling This Year?Do you want to start homeschooling this year? Your biggest question is probably, “Can I do it?” I answer emphatically, “Yes, you can!” Let’s talk through it together. Hopefully, by the end of this post, you start homeschooling with...