December Giveaway #1 – Tracing Board and Gift Certificate!
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Once again, we are delighted to partner with Alison’s Montessori, provider of premium quality Montessori wooden materials, to offer you a December giveaway!
Just like last year, we will be having 4 giveaways in December; each one will be introduced on Monday, close on Thursday, and the winner will be announced on Friday.
This week’s giveaway is super! From us at Montessori for Everyone, a $100 Gift Certificate to our store (good for one year, not redeemable for cash). From Alison’s Montessori, this lovely Uppercase Tracing Board:
Interested? You can have more than one entry:
1. Entry #1 – Leave a comment on this blog post (optional: tell us your favorite Montessori material and why)
2. Entry #2 – Mention our giveaway at your blog (with a link), then post a comment back here with a link to your post
3. Entry #3 –Add our blog to your blogroll, then post a comment here with a link to your blog
• GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Thursday, December 9st at 12pm CST
• NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
• PRIZE SHIPS: The United States* (tracing board); gift certificate will be emailed
• DETAILS: The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Friday on our blog. That’s right, come right back here Friday morning for the announcement of our winner. Good luck!
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Alison’s has a great selection! I am excited for this contest!!
Great giveaway – please enter me. I haven’t used a lot of Montessori materials, but in hindsight, Montessori would have made my son’s life so much easier. We are trying to add a Montessori feel to our homeschool days.
I love Montessori and would love to win this giveaway!
My favorite material is the checkerboard. I was traditionally schooled, and I remember not understanding why you indented for each column in multi-digit multiplication. It all made sense once I was introduced to the checkerboard!
What a great time of year to have a little something new for the classroom as well!
Thanks for the opportunity.
My favorite Montessori works are the continent boxes, because we love the hands on approach to learning about geography and culture!
How exciting! These are both great prizes! One of my favorite materials is the Stamp Game. It’s so versatile!
Wow! Awesome giveaway! My favorite Montessori materials are the practical life elements but my children are small and we’re just learning about language and math materials.
Wow! GREAT giveaway! We are attempting to create an incredible Montessori environment in our daycare/preschool and I LOVE Alison’s Montessori! My favorite products are practical life materials! The children LOVE them! We have been creating a rich pre-writing center and this give away would be the perfect addition!!
My favorite montessori materials are the continent maps! They teach so much!! Hoping to win, I am always in need of things for our classroom! Thanks for the chance!
wow! Nice giveaway!! My favourite Montessori material is the Land forms… and the movable alphabet, which allows kids to write even when they can’t really trace the letters yet…
My favorite Montessori material is the “parts of” puzzles. My daughter loves them so much. She has spent hours upon hours doing them, and then doing them again (kind of the point, I know!). She has never really cared for traditional interlocking puzzles though, so it is nice to see her enjoying these. They have captured her attention in a way that none of the other materials she has have. I hope to be able to get the continent puzzles for her some time soon.
Ah, what a fantatic giveaway! My favorite materials are the Function of Word exercises….so simple and so brilliant!
Great giveaway! My favorite montessori materials are the pin maps and the golden beads. My son is learning his geography at such a young age in such detail and my daughter is learning to count to 1000 by 10′s and 5′s in Kindergarten!
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Silvina
Exciting giveaway! My favorite Montessori work/material is table washing. It took a long time for me to understand the point (I mean, just get the table clean, right?) and the secondary skills that were being developed.
My favourite material is the puzzles because they are absolutely ageless!
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My favorit Montessori materials are the beautiful map puzzles. My grandmother was quite the traveller and papered the walls of her tiny bedroom with maps from the places she had visited. I used to go into her room and marvel at those maps!
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Amazing giveaway!! I would love to win. My favorite material is the moveable alphabet. It’s such a perfect material; hands-on, creative, and open ended.
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I’m just starting to learn about the Montessori Method. I would love to win this giveaway! I have an almost 2 year old with whom I would like to use Montessori at home.
Great giveaway… My favorite Montessori material are the cylinder blocks as they are so interesting, self corrective as well as have so many extentions….
I’d LOVE to enter the giveaway. Man I have to choose one Montessori thing? My son needs SO many hands on things. I love tracing stuff. He loves to do pouring activities. Sorting. Oh all of it!
I love so many Montessori materials,but I’d have to say I love the teen board because it really simplified place value for my daughter and helped her to grasp the concept.
I love this website. I have just started a preschool and have used so much of your materials in class. My son was at a Montessori school for 2 years while we were overseas and he just loved it. My student has developed such strong life skills in the short time that he has been here it is wonderful to see how the Montessori method helps children grow into strong and independent learners.
This give-away will help my students in so many ways!
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It’s hard to name my favorite… I would have to go with the golden beads. My 2 year old daughter’s favorites are the pink tower and the sound cylinders. My 1 year old son like the cubes on a dowel. I would LOVE to win this. I purchased our home classroom from Alisons but I did not get the Tracing Board.
I know you didn’t ask but I would use the gift certificate for the continent study set. It has been on my wish list for a long time. We already have the continent boxes but they are sadly lacking. Our daughter was recently diagnosed with a chronic illness which is why we chose to teach Montessori at home long and invest in the authentic materials. Her treatment has exhausted our funds for the time being. This will be a blessing to whoever receives it!
Wow this would be great. We are just about to start with the sandpaper letters and don’t have an uppercase set.
My 3 year old son is starting Montessori school on Jan 3 – we are all so excited as we know it will be ideal for him! Would love to have materials at home to assist in his learning.! I love your blog- it is very enlightening to those of us that are new to Montessori. I think my favorite material so far are the sandpaper letters. I think it is so intersting how they learn to “trace” them with two fingers in order to get the muscle memory for holding a writing utensil. Thanks!
My kids attend the first public montessori program in our school idstrict in Rio Rancho, New Mexico and I’m working with them on getting more supplies in the classroom. We already several things from both of these places on our list of items to buy after fundraising efforts. This would be a great addition! Thanks! Jamie
What a wonderful prize! I just started teaching this year and this would make a great addition to my classroom!! Thanks!
Maybe this makes me boring, but I love the language towers. I love how methodically some of my students work through their vocabulary and mechanics works, cementing their skills.
My little girls love making and using sensory jars with different scents!
We are just learning about the montessori ways. My daughter is about to turn 2 and I believe her school will begin to introduce this into the classroom soon.
Currently her favorite montessori “toys” are the small pitchers. She loves to serve herself and to see the pride beaming from her makes it my favorite toy as well.
My favorite is the golden beads. It can be used as soon as they understand and it encourages such focus and to work to completion. It can be used for years if understood at an early age.
Montessori for Everyone rocks! My daughter went to a Montessori charter school for kindergarten and we are starting a Mont home school next month. She absolutely LOVES tracing and make her own books.
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Wow! I don’t think I could choose just one favourite, but I love the Geometry Range. I love the concrete introduction to what is usually such an abstract field!
The Montessori material of choice is a continent map with all the countries on it. We’ve been studying WWI with a home-ed co-op, and being able to pull out a lot of the central European puzzle pieces to illustrate the Central or Axis powers was a brilliant lesson for our 6-9 year olds.
my favorite montessori material is the roman arch building set. It provides hands-on construction, and helps integrate geometry.
My 4 year old loves the broad prisms and the pink tower of cubes. Her 10 year old sister has fond memories of the pink tower of cubes!
I would love to win this for our school!
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Ingrid
What a neat giveaway idea. My favorite Montessori work is probably the moveable alphabet. It’s just so useful.
My favorite montessori material probably are the practical life items. The pitcher probably most of all…
I like using household items for most of my daughter’s Montessori activities.
I love all the bead work for math.
Working in a Children’s House it is fun to see the children discover all the materials. The most popular at the moment would have to be the nut cracking activity. Cracking the walnuts being the fun part, but then to see them walking throughout the classroom serving others and sharing the nuts is quite rewarding.
I would love to be entered, thanks!
Bless your heart…what a peaceful gift! Thank you
Ooo! This is great!
My favorite material has to be anything with animals.
My daughter can’t get enough!
I remember this from last year! Thank you for doing it again!
A favorite Montessori material would have to be color box 3! Especially when done as a color wheel. It is simply beautiful.
Also friends doing their infant/toddler Montessori training did a mobile with 5 shades of a color as preparation for color box 3, which was simply beautiful!
Thats Awesome, My classroom can really use these materials!
I’ve mentioned this contest on my blog.
Thanks!! I really hope I win!
What a perfect thing to do during the season of giving!
I love the beads! Since I have started teaching Montessori, I am amazed at how quickly my kiddos have started counting big numbers really quickly!!
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In year two I’m staring to realize what needs to be taught but have little to teach it with outside of the Montessori classics! This would be so helpful for our school!
Golden Beads… is there nothing you can’t do?
Thanks for the great giveaway!!!
It is nearly impossible to choose, but I think that my favorite Montessori materials are our Practical life ones, spooning, cooking utensils, etc. because they really get to work hands on with the children while they use them, and you can see their progress right before your eyes as they become more and more independent!
My favorite Montessori material are all the math materials, specifically the golden beads and bead chains.
I have a 7 year old and I am so excited to be part of this giveaway. Please include me in the give away.
what a great giveaway! grandparents are helping us build our collection of materials and generously give them as gifts during birthdays and holidays! this would be a great addition.
very cool
Nice giveaway! I love all the sensorial materials, especially the binomial cube.I also like the moveable alphabet.
This would be so great! My daughter loves pitchers and pouring! And pictures for ordering.
We LOVE our brown stair and pink tower.
Our geography map puzzles are getting used lots, too!
I love practical life material, when children work with it, makes me feel like I’m in little land, and the way it moves the children in to all the other areas.
My favorite material is the Movable Alphabet. Ahhhh, learning to sound out words is such a beautiful thing to watch.
There are so many wonderful Montessori materials…maybe the Continent Map…I just watched my barely 3 yr old work with another child & was naming some of them…WOW!
I would say that my favorite materials are the Golden Beads.. What an amazing way to introduce mathematical operations!
I love the towers!
I am trying to teach a 9year old, 7 year old, 5 year old and a 8mth baby so I am going to choose the order and preparation that goes into the Pink, Blue and Green series. It makes a crazy house peaceful. X
my favorite material are the beads!
I like the parts of puzzles. Susan
My favorite Montessori materials are the math materials. Teaching the children concretely, makes all the difference in the world.
The number cards teach place value so well and help children be comfortable with big numbers early on.
I do homeschooling with the Montessori material preschool an elementary. It’s hard to say which is the best material, but one of my daughter loves the checkerboard.
My daughter is just getting into the sandpaper letters… she would LOVE this! Fingers crossed…!
Hi My favorite set of materials are the Racks and beads at the elementary level. This material teaches long division so beautifully, I wish I had them when I was at school. For the primary level I enjoy working with the golden bead materials which gives concrete understanding of the place values.
Great giveaway, thanks! My favorite materials are the beads.
Hi! My favorite Montessori materials (well, one of my favorites) is the geometry box of sticks. I love how it shows all sorts of geometry concepts, looks colorful and fun, and you can have all the kids participate in the lesson because there are lots of sticks.
Have a great day!
I’ve added your December giveaway to my blog – looks like you have a great giveaway for a lucky family. Thanks
Bridgitt
Montessori is so much fun, our absolute favorite is the movable alphabet. It is so multi functional. Many different ages and scholastic levels of learning, make it essential to our homeschool.
My absolute favorite Montessori materials are all of them … they are all amazing tools for learning, we especially love all the wonderful materials which are available from montessoriforeveryone.
I have just started using Montessori techniques in my homeschool. I love the printables on your site. There are so many “new” things that it is hard to know where to start!
What a wonderful giveaway! We love all of the cultural materials!
I’ve always been crazy about the pink tower!
This contest is a gret idea. I love Alison’s and have shared there catalog with friends. Montessori for everyone offers great quality materials, too. Thanks for having a heart for those of us who are Montessori devotees!
I created my own moveable alphabet and my son and student love it. I can watch my 3 1/2 year old student now work through the alphabet on his own. The practical life skills have really helped both children gain more motor control and patience!
I love Montessori for Everyone, everything we have used has been quality. I am just getting familiar with Alison’s. What a great contest.
Who can have a favorite with all the wonderful materials of the Montessori Method! My kids favorite right now is the Hundred Board. They are really getting into math now. There are so many great things that teach math concretly using Montessori. Keep up the great work Montessori For Everyone.
thanks for the opportunity!
I love using Montessori. My son is learning so much with it.
My favorite material is the Tri-nomial cube. Even the most uniterested child can be captivated by this material.
I love all your materials. My favorite ones are the language cards.
Hope to be able to enter this contest. So many entries! Congratulations.
I love the moveable alphabet! Thanks for all that Montessori for Everyone gives us. Alison’s has great products and is always so helpful!
Barbara Curtis (Montessori megamom) highly recommends teaching children to learn the alphabet this way. I have a little one and one on the way, and I am starting to collect Montessori material for them. What a great giveaway! Good luck everyone!
What a great idea and great material! Thank you! We love Alison’s Montessori and order new classroom materials from them all the time. The quality and price are excellent! Favorite material today would have to be the metal insets…
Love your website! My favorite is the constructive triangles set, love how it teaches so many concepts and thinking skills in such a simple manner. I would use the 100$ certificate towards the purchase of the continents kit definitely. my daughter is 4 and is beginning enthusiastic writing, so the tracing board would be perfect. My blog is private, so I will not be able to post a link.
I have to say that my favorite material is the hundred board. I loved watching my son’s progress as he got faster each time he did it! That really illustrates the Montessori theory that the process is just as important as the finished product if not more so.
Great giveaway! I love everything that we’ve gotten from Alisons. I love all the Montessori math materials. My older son learned math the more traditional way, and my younger one using Montessori, and the younger one has such a better conceptual grasp of math.
Great giveaway! My sons enjoy the movable alphabet and the hundreds board that we have gotten from Allisons.
What a nice giveaway! I really love all the math materials
Learning math through all the montessori materials makes it so easy for my kids! 
Thank you for making great quality and affordable materials!
Thanks so much for the chance at a great giveaway! I would love the gift certifcate to add more of your gorgeous geography works to our continent boxes. My fave Montessori materials for my girls are anything in the practical life area (they love tonging/transferring), as well as the golden bead materials ability to make an abstract concept so understandable.
Thank you for the giveaway. My current favorite Montessori material is the sandpaper letters. It really helps my 3 year old to learn to write and read.
I have enjoyed both Alison’s Montessori products and your printables for years.
I must say, Alison has taken care of me in the past without problem and the materials she offers do last.
Thank you for offering you giveaway again.
What a fantastic giveaway! Thank you.
If I have to pick my first thought is the golden bead math materials.
My favorite material is the sandpaper letters.
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Montessori is my home. There is no other place I like to be is with my students in our classroom and exploring, growing, learning and being loved. The materials I get from Alison’s Montessori help the learning experience everyday.
My favorite Montessori material is the Maps. Thank you for the giveaway!
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Thank you for the opportunity..I love every single of the MoNTESSORI MATERIALS..One of my favorites are the beads..my daughter loves them.
I teach a first through third grade mentally disabled class and have been amazed with the progress my students have made using Montessori materials. They have learned how to read and follow their individual work plans. It is so exciting to watch them become more independent. I have used many of your free materials and appreciate you sharing with other educators. I’ve also purchased the pink and blue ELA materials. Thank you for such an informative web site and for sharing your love and knowledge of children.
You are, of course, already on my blogroll. I love your blog! Thanks for all you do!
My favorite Montessori material are the puzzle maps. It is so exciting to see my sons learning geography at an age when they are so ready to absorb the information.
My favorite Montessori material are the sandpaper letters. I love watching a child learn and have an interest in the letters and sounds with the touch of the letters.
Wow! My favorite Montessori material would have to be the pink tower, because it is my kids’ favorite. They never get tired of it, it’s so chipped and worn! Fun giveaway! Alison’s and Montessori for Everyone are two of my favorite places.
I am currently taking a course to become a certified Montessori teacher. I live in Germany so the course is only offered in German. I have learned a great deal through the course, but your website has been quite helpful in bringing what I have learned in German to my mother tongue.
My favorite Montessori material so far is the “Markenspiel” or the Stamp Game. I teach in an international school that is not Montessori based, but some of us have been introducing the materials and concepts.
Thanks for doing the giveaway!
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And you are on my blogroll as well. I love love your blog.
I am just learning anout all things Montessori and would love to win this giveaway!
My favourite are the sandpaper letters, that’s why I would love to win these!
I’d love the opportunity to participate!
My favourite Montessori materials are the fraction circles – such concrete hands-on learning of what can be a complicated idea.
Thanks Lori!!!
Thanks for the great giveaway! I love the continent boxes.
I love the tracing boards, but I have to say my absolute favorite Montessori Material is the pink tower. No matter how young or old the kids are they can still explore and create with it.
my kids favorite montessori activity is grinding coffee beans and I have to say I like to do it too
also love the moveable alphabet.
What a wonderful giveaway. One of my favorite materials is the bells. One of them recently got broken at my daughter’s school so if I won the gift certificate I’d give it to them to put towards some new bells.
I love the moveable alphabet. It’s a wonderful tool for the kids to work with.
My favorite material is the moveable alphabet. The material allows the child to explore letters using their senses rather than printed on paper. There are also lots of extension activities that can add to the learning.
My favorite material is the stamp game! It’s so versatile!
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Great Giveaway! I love Montessori materials!
what a great giveaway! Thanks!
I love sandpaper letters! Thanks for the giveaway. I have my fingers crossed.
Oh…what a cool thing, my son would love it!
The most perfect language material to complete the language area in my preschool classroom!
Awesome giveaway !
I’m not sure if I can decide which montessori material is my favorite. I like dressing frames, moveable alphabet, sandpaper letters and pink tower.
My son is 2 1/2 year old and is homeschooled. Would really love to win this giveaway prize as our budget for buying montessori materials is very limited.
Thank you !
Favorite material… How tough! I’m going to have to say the maps… I delight in watching young children punch out the shapes and then put them together themselves.
I have enjoyed your blog and learned so much about Montessori. I like so much of it, but I would say my daughter’s favorite are the part cards. Where they can identify the parts of an object the cards represent (Parts of a plant, frog, fish, horse, etc.). She loves to make little books from the pages she has colored and labeled.
The moveable alphabet is the most popular at our house. So many different activities!
Our four children love Montessori lessons. We have used many of your downloads for three part cards. Your facebook page keeps my creativity. It’s a joy having your online leadership and dupport
I love the sandpaper letters
I’d love to win these two fantastic items! My son turns 2 in a couple of weeks and would really enjoy these tracing letters. We’d be using them as letter tiles first though. Thanks for the giveaway!
What a great learning tool!! Our daughters are both in Montessori & we love the program. My favorites are the golden beads, moveable alphabet & hundred board. Our girls both love the hands on approach to Montessori & we can’t get enough of it at home! Thanks
I like following you on Facebook. I get many good ideas from you.
I love Montessori Education!!! My favourite material is the Stamp Game – learning math never seemed so easy and fun! It’s amazing the concepts the students pick up from this material.
I love so many of my materials, but I think I would have to say Golden beads are my favorite. They would have made my life so much easier as a child. I think they are just so beautiful! Please enter me in this week’s drawing.
I couldn’t pick one favorite. I have taught for 10 years and love everything about it. I would love to win this drawing.
Our favorite works are the object boxes. There’s something wonderfully tactile about holding the little objects in your hand and matching them with sandpaper letters. I hope I win!
I blogged about it here:
http://mymontessorimoments.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/montessori-for-everyone-giveaway/
Added you to my blog roll…actually even better…my blog crushes. Thanks for the chance to win. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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I would love to be entered in the contest! My favorite work is the stamp game:) thanks
I would love to win some Montessori materials!
Hello Montessori for everyone, this is one of my favorite materials. Thank you for giving it away.
I love your site! I’m so glad I learned about you at training. Thank you so much for the chance at the give away!
Love all the Montessori math materials. My six-year-old says he likes the bead chains the best!
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I also posted about your giveaway here:
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I am fascinated by the trinomial cube. I spend time thinking about it – how it was developed, how it teaches, how much it teaches.
Would love to win these!
Great giveaway! I love coloured pegs and a peg board. So many applications!
I don’t have a favorite Montessori tool yet because I haven’t started yet. I begin my Master’s in January for Montessori and I can’t wait!
I am just starting to collect Montessori materials for my house as I am teaching my 4 year old son, and he is enjoying the Montessori activities and lessons. I believe this is a much better approach to a child learning,especially for boys.
Thanks for the giveaway. We love using the three part careds.
Love these!! This would be too perfect for my kids.
crossing my fingers! Thank you!
My favorite Montessori material, and there are so many, would be the puzzle maps. From a teachers standpoint there are so many extensions possible with them!
It’s hard to pick out a favorite material. When I was in school myself, my favorite material was the bead cabinet. Now as an adult, a teacher, I really don’t know. They are all so important.