Grace and Courtesy
Author: Alicia Olson
Publisher:
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9780981934556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK16 illustrated Grace and Courtesy lessons for use in a Montessori environment
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Montessori at Home
Author: Heidi Anne Spietz
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpring Tea
Author: Linda Seeley
Publisher:
Published: 2013-01-03
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781470194277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpring Tea is an inspiring guide for anyone who wants to introduce children to the fine art of tea time. Written by teachers in the Montessori tradition, this resource makes it possible for any group of adults-parents, childcare providers, religious educators and others-to work with children and create memories and traditions that they will cherish forever. The authors lay out step-by-step instructions for children and adults, while teaching lessons about hospitality that will last a lifetime. Enjoy the guide and wait for the magic that happens when you hear a child ask: "How will you have your tea today?"
Our Peaceful Classroom
Author: Aline D. Wolf
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780939195046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren describe many of the things they learn and do at their school which uses the methods developed by Maria Montessori.
The Absorbent Mind
Author: Maria Montessori
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-03-25
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1625588682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Absorbent Mind was Maria Montessori's most in-depth work on her educational theory, based on decades of scientific observation of children. Her view on children and their absorbent minds was a landmark departure from the educational model at the time. This book helped start a revolution in education. Since this book first appeared there have been both cognitive and neurological studies that have confirmed what Maria Montessori knew decades ago.
From Childhood to Adolescence
Author: Maria Montessori
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781851091850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this work, Maria Montessori examines the educational concerns of the older child, the adolescent, and even the mature university student. She considers each level and seeks the optimum method of facilitating growth.
Montessori for Every Family
Author: DK
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0744033748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis parenting book shows you how to make magical Montessori memories — every day. This beautiful, modern Montessori book for parents outlines the key principles of this parenting approach and shows you how you can easily apply this at home. It provides a valuable starting point for parents to help them create a family life inspired by the ethos of Montessori. This practical parenting guide makes Montessori accessible to every parent and child, regardless of time pressures and resources. It includes: • Outlines of the Montessori principles clearly and succinctly: respect, freedom, curiosity, creativity, responsibility and independence. • Examples on how to apply these principles to everyday life – with sections on breakfast time, school/daycare drop off, school/daycare pick up, playtime, meal times, homework time, bath time and bedtime. • Demonstrations of how to apply Montessori techniques to an older child new to Montessori and how to flex and build on the techniques as your child grows up. Montessori is a unique educational philosophy created by Maria Montessori that fosters the growth of the whole child. From enjoying nature together to free time and weekends, every aspect of family life is an opportunity for meaningful engagement with your child. Montessori For Every Family offers you pragmatic, real-life advice, suitable for children of all ages, showing you how easy and natural it is to create a nourishing and empowering environment at home for everyone. Even if your child won’t go to a Montessori school, a Montessori home can still be an invaluable bridge to reinforcing your child’s natural curiosity and setting the foundation for lifelong learning. This is the only Montessori book that recognizes that most parents don’t have the time and resources to overhaul their lives to fully embrace a parenting philosophy, but instead need practical, immediate guidance that is effective. "You will want to refer to this book again and again." Paul Epstein, PhD, Designs of Lifelong Learning
Montessori Today
Author: Paula Polk Lillard
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2011-09-07
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0307761320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn to manage freedom with responsibility, and maintain a high level of intellectual stimulation by using the Montessori method. This is an essential handbook for parents and teachers who have chosen the Montessori alternative for the older child.
Grace in Tension
Author: Claire McGarry
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 168192644X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all face stress and tension in our daily lives. We might even wonder why our God of abundant goodness doesn’t remove the everyday struggles we face. Jesus’ interactions with Martha and Mary in the Gospel provide us the key to understanding how God shows us his love by allowing tensions in our lives. As we follow the sisters’ transformative journeys through their own struggles, reflecting on what transpires between Scripture verses, we see their initial tension become the catalyst that drives both Mary and Martha to the feet of Jesus — the place where all discover peace. Grace in Tension explores the areas where stress arises in our own lives. Each chapter ends with a thought-provoking prayer to inspire us to go to God with our problems, followed by questions for reflection to help us see all the ways he’s working for our good. God doesn’t create any of it, but he does show up amid life’s difficulties, ready to lead us through. No matter how big or small our struggle, when we seek him out, he reveals what we need to do to resolve our tension, transforming it into grace. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Claire McGarry is the founder of MOSAIC of Faith, a ministry for mothers of infants to school-aged children to explore their faith through motherhood. She contributes regularly to CatholicMom.com and blogs at ShiftingMyPerspective.com. She is the author of Lenten devotional With Our Savior, and her work has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Keys for Kids, These Days, and Focus on the Family magazine. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.
The Absence of Grace
Author: Harry Berger
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780804739047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author describes as reconstructed old New Criticism, that is, close reading conditioned by an interest in and analysis of the historical changes reflected in the text. The book focuses on the way the Courtier and Galateo cope with and represent the interaction between changes of elite culture and the changing construction of masculine identity in early modern Europe. More specifically, it connects questions of male fantasy and masculine identity to questions about the authority and reliability of narrators, and shows how these questions surface in narratorial attitudes toward socioeconomic rank or class, political power, and gender. The book is in three parts. Part One examines a distinction and correlation the Courtier establishes between two key terms, (1) sprezzatura, defined as a behavioral skill intended to simulate the attributes of (2) grazia, understood as the grace and privileges of noble birth. Because sprezzatura is negatively conceptualized as the absence of grace it generates anxiety and suspicion in performers and observers alike. In order to suggest how the binary opposition between these terms affected the discourse of manners, the author singles out the titular episode of Galateo, an anecdote about table manners, which he reads closely and then sets in its historical perspective. Part Two takes up the question of sprezzatura in the gender debate that develops in Book 3 of the Courtier, and Part Three explores in detail the characterization of the two narrators in the Courtier and Galateo, who are represented as unreliable and an object of parody or critique.
