Follow the Keys at each level and supplement if the situation demands or allows for it. If a child does not learn to tell time or label the parts of a clock in primary, he will get it in elementary - rest assured!
While history is not labeled as such in the casa, the child received sensorial impressions and experiences such that the child will feel secure at the end of his first plane of development, thus we have children entering the elementary environment ready to go on, ready to reach out to the outer society and to understand more about his culture.
At elementary, we focus on giving a foundation and a structure; then we look to the child's interest, our own requirements, and any outside requirements to determine the rest of the details. Elementary Montessori history is really more a method and a style, rather than a "curriculum" that spoon-feeds all information. In this way, you can really have a lot of freedom and a lot of fun, while also being comfortable that all the bases are covered.
Primary - Keys to the World
Focus on the keys that lay a *foundation*:
- cultural folders
- life-cycles
- practical life activities based on sequences and culturally-past processes
- flags
- song
- dance
- poems
- books and other cultural items[4]
- more loosely in the mathematics and the language materials with the order of presentations correlating with how human beings developed these skills
- pictures around the environment[5]
- all of the aspects of family life and celebrations which are learned by the first plane child are part of the history for that child, for that group of people, that culture and ultimately, all human life
- grace and courtesy[6]
- vocabulary enrichment cards should include past cultural items (clothing, tools, homes, etc), tying in with the fundamental needs done at elementary.
- As the primary child reaches the end of the first plane, his sense of time is developing. While the children do not yet receive dates, they can receive basic vocabulary and sensorial impressions: “in the beginning” “later” “meanwhile but elsewhere”, etc. These children will want to write stories about these things.
- Reading an analog clock
- Parts of a clock
- Child's personal life timeline
Elementary - Keys to the Universe
·
Introduction
to History
·
The
Coming of Life
o
Notes
on the Story
o
Notes
on the Black Strip
·
The
Story of the Coming of Human Beings
·
The
Hand Timeline
o
Notes
on the Hand Timeline
·
The
Clock of Eras
·
First
Timeline of Human Beings
o
Notes
on the First Timeline of Human Beings
·
Fundamental
Needs of Human Beings
·
History
Question Charts (primary source for independent study)
·
Three
Phases of History
·
Second
Timeline of Human Beings
·
Migration
Charts
·
Four
River Civilizations
·
New World Civilizations
·
Timeline
of Civilizations
·
History
Timelines
o
Timelines
for Memorization
o
American
History (National History)
·
Time
o
Clock
o
Personal
Timeline
o
Calendar
o
BC-AD
Timeline
·
Notes
on Constructing a Timeline
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[2] Washboards, sewing skills, washing
hands in a basin, etc. Exercises that fit into a historical context.
[3] Historical reasons for the flags,
stories associated with them
[4] Culturally past and present
[5] Periodically change; have to do with
different aspects of the world: culture, past, present.
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