Yahooligans is a great web resource for kids. Around the World has loads of information about different countries.

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Coloring pages of flags from Northern Europe, Southern Europe, North Africa, Central/Southern Africa, Asia, Australia/South Pacific, North America/Caribbean, Canada and Central/South America

Enchanted Learning has all the flags of the world, printouts, printable book of flags of the world, label printout of different types of flags.

Yahoo Education links has a great site for flags around the World. Also the World Factbook has information including maps, currency, and even environmental policy.

The Teacher’s Net has several easy to sing Continent Songs.
They even have songs about the Oceans, North and South Poles, and the Equator.

You can check what happened in history with this free online calendar.
Just click on “Kids History Archive”

I was asked the origin of this saying-
“Children are not vessels to be filled, but candles to be lit.”

I found this-
“Children are not vessels to be filled, but lamps to be lit.” by
– Swami Chinmayananda

Here are 3 basic stages and development of drawing from preschool up to age 6 or 7. Lowenfeld observed even more stages for older children. This link has the different developmental stages of art and drawing

Stage one: A child learns to hold a crayon or pencil. He or she first makes hen scratch marks on a paper. Next they scribble with up and down marks and circular images. If you don’t provide paper at this stage your artist will color on his or her bedroom wall! These children draw for the sake of drawing.

Stage two: Shapes, such as a circle, cross, and fairly straight lines are well developed in this child’s drawings. Soon it is very easy for this child to make a person with a round head, arms, and legs. Often, eyes, feet or shoes, hair and mouth will also appear. The proportions are varied at first; the portrait could have a big head and small legs and arms. Colors are chosen because the child “likes” the color, not because it is a factual representation of the object drawn. The painting and drawing from this stage are very stylized for the artist. Each time a child draws a tree, it will be very much like the tree he or she has drawn before. Also, the child will sometimes imitate an adult writing. Eventually, they separate writing from drawing. Children at this stage can usually write their name. Letter reversals are common at this stage.

Stage Three: Between stage two and three the child begins to include in his or her portraits, fingers, toes, eye lashes, eye brows, finger nails, and other minute details. Dimensions, such as earth and sky are noted with a baseline. The sky is usually colored blue, grass green, hills as bumps on the horizon, yellow sun in the sky, and white fluffy clouds. This child is quite a landscape artist. More importantly, the attention to detail, such as eye lashes, finger nails, rings, articles of clothing etc. in a portrait, and spatial understanding indicates that this child is often ready to read. I usually introduce the sandpaper letters and numbers at the end of stage two. Along with the introduction of the moveable alphabet, writing and other language activities, a child by stage three is usually an early or bridging reader.

Lowenfeld’s stages of art and drawing development supports Montessori’s principle that writing (even drawing) does precede reading.

Jola Montessori povides a quaterly newsletter for Montessori Schools in the nation. It has contributions from authorities in ecuation.
The site also provides a Montessori Materials Guide, The Montessori Community Resource, and The Montessori Community Directory.