Photos from the Classroom

I'm sitting here on a beautiful Wednesday, organizing and putting away some of my fabulous new classroom materials. The kids are at the Farm having a wonderful time, the baby is napping, and I am happy as a clam, deciding how to store the Flags of the World material. Luckily, I already owned a Seven Tier Horiziontal Desk Organizer and so that will be perfect. One shelf for each continent! Montessori color-codes the continents (of course) and so the labels for each shelf will match that continent's color.

Children are introduced to this color-coding system with their second globe in the Primary classroom. The first globe is simply a sensory experience of land vs. water, with blue for water and brown sandpaper for all the parts of our planet which are land. The second globe shows the land masses with their continent colors. From there, you can take the children into biomes and then into political maps.

In case you are curious, here are the shelves for my Flags of the World work. Your home continent is always presented first:

Montessori continent colors
North America & Caribbean - orange
South America - pink
Europe - red
Africa - green
Asia - yellow
Australia & Oceania - brown
Antarctica - white

In case you are a parent of a child in my class and are super-curious about what Montessori materials I have (and what's on my wish list), I have a blog post about that very topic, which I update every time I make a purchase.

In the spirit of getting organized, I also wanted to post some pictures from our first three weeks of school. Enjoy!