Comments on: Designing a Montessori Classroom http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/designing-a-montessori-classroom.html High Quality Montessori Materials Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:46:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Lori Bourne http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/designing-a-montessori-classroom.html/comment-page-1#comment-3192 Lori Bourne Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:58:45 +0000 http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/?p=2659#comment-3192 Hi, Sheena!I've mentioned this before, but I use notebook paper (not in notebooks) that the students put on their clipboards one sheet at a time. When they fill both sides (putting all work together, whether math, botany, etc.), they give it to me and I put it in a binder for them. One binder per child. It works beautifully and there is no need to juggle multiple binders/notebooks for each child. Hi, Sheena!I’ve mentioned this before, but I use notebook paper (not in notebooks) that the students put on their clipboards one sheet at a time. When they fill both sides (putting all work together, whether math, botany, etc.), they give it to me and I put it in a binder for them. One binder per child.

It works beautifully and there is no need to juggle multiple binders/notebooks for each child.

]]> By: Sheena Fowlie http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/designing-a-montessori-classroom.html/comment-page-1#comment-3188 Sheena Fowlie Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:13:39 +0000 http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/?p=2659#comment-3188 Hi! Thank you so much for all of your helpful blogs. I have spent a lot of time reading your posts and they are so practical and helpful! I have been teaching for 2 1/2 years at a private school and I just finished my Montessori training by correspondence in November. I have implemented a lot of what I learned as I went (It took 9 months) and then even more after I finished, and I plan to go "totally Montessori" next year. The only thing that I am really hung up on is how to store the students' work. In my training they describe individual student bins with a binder for each subject, but then in all of the illustrations they have lined notebooks. My experience with binders is that pages get ripped out and they are very large and hard for kids to handle (My class is grades 2 and 3). I have searched and read every blog I could find, but could find no clear explanation of how other teachers store student work. As you have experience teaching at the 6-9 level, I was wondering what you had your students do their work in, and how you stored it? Thanks! Hi!
Thank you so much for all of your helpful blogs. I have spent a lot of time reading your posts and they are so practical and helpful!

I have been teaching for 2 1/2 years at a private school and I just finished my Montessori training by correspondence in November. I have implemented a lot of what I learned as I went (It took 9 months) and then even more after I finished, and I plan to go “totally Montessori” next year.

The only thing that I am really hung up on is how to store the students’ work. In my training they describe individual student bins with a binder for each subject, but then in all of the illustrations they have lined notebooks. My experience with binders is that pages get ripped out and they are very large and hard for kids to handle (My class is grades 2 and 3). I have searched and read every blog I could find, but could find no clear explanation of how other teachers store student work. As you have experience teaching at the 6-9 level, I was wondering what you had your students do their work in, and how you stored it?

Thanks!

]]> By: Lori Bourne http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/designing-a-montessori-classroom.html/comment-page-1#comment-3031 Lori Bourne Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:52:45 +0000 http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/?p=2659#comment-3031 Hi, Raven! So glad you can use this information. Bookshelves can be hard to find. I like the ones from Target, and when my daughter was little I bought the kind with doors - we used a latch to keep them shut when we weren't using them. Hi, Raven! So glad you can use this information. Bookshelves can be hard to find. I like the ones from Target, and when my daughter was little I bought the kind with doors – we used a latch to keep them shut when we weren’t using them.

]]> By: Raven http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/designing-a-montessori-classroom.html/comment-page-1#comment-3029 Raven Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:44:23 +0000 http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/?p=2659#comment-3029 What a great post! And something that I really needed to read. I just posted about some of our homeschooling space over at my site, so this is very timely. Next on my list of purchases: low bookshelves! I just need to find a good place to find them at a good price. And, preferably, with sliding doors so my 1 year-old doesn't get into all of my daughter's work. Thanks for the pics of your learning areas! Good inspiration for the rest of us! Baby steps... :) What a great post! And something that I really needed to read. I just posted about some of our homeschooling space over at my site, so this is very timely. Next on my list of purchases: low bookshelves! I just need to find a good place to find them at a good price. And, preferably, with sliding doors so my 1 year-old doesn’t get into all of my daughter’s work.

Thanks for the pics of your learning areas! Good inspiration for the rest of us! Baby steps… :)

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