The Montessori approach to help your child after the start of the school year

Toys, games and other Montessori supports that help your child in his learning

Are you a follower of the Montessori method? Do you want to offer little games to your child at home to help him understand what he is learning at school? On the occasion of the start of the school year, it’s time to take a look at his first lessons. From the great section of Kindergarten and CP, he will discover letters, graphemes, words, and numbers. There are many games, books, and boxes to help them progress, at their own pace, at home. Decryption with Charlotte Poussin, Montessori educator and member of the board of directors of AMF, Association Montessori de France.

Learn to read and write at any age

Maria Montessori wrote: “When he sees and recognizes, he reads.” When he touches, he writes. He thus initiates his consciousness through two actions which, in turn, will separate and constitute the two different processes of reading and writing. Charlotte Poussin, a Montessori educator, confirms: ” As soon as the child is attracted to letters, he is ready to learn to discover letters. And this, whatever his age “. Indeed, for her, it is essential to pay attention to this key moment when your child shows his curiosity for words. The Montessori educator explains that “some children who were not offered the opportunity to learn letters when they were sensitive to it, suddenly” you are too young “or” he would be bored in CP … “, Are often those who will have learning difficulties in reading, because it will be offered to them at a time when they are no longer interested”. For Charlotte Poussin, “when the child is ready, he often manifests it by naming or recognizing letters from those around him, or by recurring questions such as, ‘what is written on this box, on this poster? “. This is when the letters should be presented to him. “Some people then absorb the entire alphabet, others much more slowly, each at their own pace, but easily if it’s the right time, whatever the age”, details the Montessori educator.

Offer suitable equipment

Charlotte Poussin invites parents to focus first and foremost on the Montessori spirit, even more than on the material, because the associated philosophy must be well understood. Indeed, “it is not a matter of a support to illustrate a didactic demonstration, but of a starting point which, thanks to the manipulation, allows the child to appropriate the concepts while moving very gradually towards abstraction, by repeating the activity when he chooses it. The role of the adult is to suggest this activity, to present how it is done and then to let the child explore it by withdrawing, while remaining an observer », Indicates Charlotte Poussin. For example, for writing and reading there is the rough letter game which is an ideal sensory material for tackling the Montessori approach at home. It involves all the senses of the child! Sight to recognize the shapes of letters, hearing to hear sound, the touch of rough letters as well as the movement you make to draw letters. These tools specially designed by Maria Montessori allow the child to enter writing and reading. Maria Montessori wrote: “We do not need to know whether the child, in his further development, will first learn to read or write, which of these two paths will be easier for him. But it remains established that if this teaching is applied at the normal age, that is to say before 5 years, the small child will write before reading, while the already too developed child (6 years) will read before, engaging in difficult learning. “

Promote games!

Charlotte Poussin also explains: “Once we feel that the child is ready to start reading because he recognizes enough letters, we offer him a game without telling him in advance that we are going. “read”. We have small objects whose names are phonetic, that is to say where all the letters are pronounced without a complex such as FIL, SAC, MOTO for example. Then, one by one, we give the child small notes on which we write the name of an object and we present it as a secret to discover. Once he has deciphered all the words on his own, he is told that he has “read”. The main advantage is that it recognizes letters and associates several sounds together. Charlotte Poussin adds: “In the Montessori method for reading, we do not name the letters but their sound. Thus, in front of the word SAC for example, the fact of pronouncing the S “ssss”, the A “aaa” and the C “k” makes it possible to hear the word “bag” “. According to her, it is a way of approaching reading and writing in a playful way. For the numbers, it’s the same! We can make nursery rhymes in which we count, play counting objects chosen by the child and manipulate the rough numbers as for letters.

Discover without delay our selection of games, toys and other Montessori supports to help your child to familiarize himself with the first school learning very easily at home!

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    I am learning to read with Montessori

    Here is a complete box with 105 cards and 70 tickets to learn to read quite simply …

    Price: EUR 24,90

    Eyrolles

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    Rough letters

    Ideal with the “I learn to read” box, here is the one dedicated to rough letters. The child is stimulated by touch, sight, hearing and movement. The 26 illustrated cards represent images to associate with the sounds of the letters.

    Eyrolles

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    The rough graphemes box

    Explore rough graphemes with Balthazar. This set includes 25 Montessori rough graphemes to touch: ch, ou, on, au, eau, oi, ph, gn, ai, ei, and, in, un, ein, ain, an, en, ien, eu, egg, oin, er, eil, euil, ail, and 50 image cards to associate graphemes and sounds.

    Hatier

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    Balthazar discovers reading

    The book “Balthazar discovers reading” allows children to take their first steps in reading and discover letters for those who must read in school in the first grade.

    Hatier

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    The very, very large notebook of letters

    More than 100 activities allow the child to discover letters, writing, graphics, sounds, language, reading, with gentleness and humor, respecting the pedagogy of Maria Montessori.

    Hatier

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    The geometric shapes of Balthazar

    This book incorporates the sensory material designed by Maria Montessori: rough shapes. By following them with the fingertips, the child uses his sensory abilities to perceive and memorize the layout of geometric shapes while having fun!

    Hatier

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    I associate letters and sounds

    After learning to recognize sounds and then to trace letters, children should associate letters with sounds, and then write the sounds they hear themselves.

    “Les petits Montessori” collection

    Oxybul.com

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    I listen to the sounds

    In the “Les Petits Montessori” Collection, here is the book that allows you to learn to recognize sounds very easily at home and at any age.

    Oxybul.com

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    I read my first words

    The collection of “Les Petits Montessori” books respects all the principles of Maria Montessori’s philosophy. “I read my first words” allows you to take your first steps in reading …

    Price: EUR 6,60

    Oxybul.com

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    Rough numbers

    Here are 30 cards to learn to count as naturally as possible with the Montessori approach.

    Eyrolles

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    Make your kite

    This activity has been developed by educational specialists so that the child can discover the world of parallel lines in a very concrete way. To assemble the structure of the kite, the child uses the perpendiculars, to cut and assemble the kite, they are the parallels.

    Price: EUR 14,95

    Nature and Discoveries

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    Globe flags and animals of the world

    In the Montessori home collection, here is a globe of the world like no other! It will allow the child to discover geography in a concrete way: the Earth, its lands and seas, its continents, its countries, its cultures, its animals …

    Price: EUR 45

    Nature and Discoveries

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    Parity

    Montessori Inspired Toy: Learning Mathematics and Calculus

    Age: from 4 years old

    Price: EUR 19,99

    www.hapetoys.com

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    Rings and sticks

    This Montessori-inspired game allows children to develop their motor skills and conceptualize the shapes of an object.

    Age: from 3 years old

    Hapetoys.com

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    Smart Letters

    Inspired by Montessori pedagogy, this Marbotic connected word game allows children to better understand certain abstract concepts. Thanks to free applications, children can discover the world of letters from the age of 3, in a fun way on the tablet! Letters are interactive and easy to use. 

    Prix: 49,99 euros

    Marbotic

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