Sweetness and Light has some great ideas and great pictures of Montessori activities to do at home. Check it out, you’ll really love it!

This is a great time for summer fun. Here is a newsletter with some ideas for learning.

This site has Montessori type extensions for math concepts-golden bead or base blocks, telling time, and over 50 Manipulatives. They’re fun to play! It’s a great way to review math concepts.

There are 28 photos of this Montessori preschool. They’re great!

This post has easy to follow directions and clear and up close pictures of stem and outline stitches. This is a great idea for more advanced Montessori handwork.

Leone Learning Systems. com has some great printouts for shapes. Check out these pdf files-
Yellow Circle and Sections
Red Circle and Sections
Blue Circle and Sections
Green Circle and Sections

I would do one color at a time and let your child “fiddle” with the shapes.
Here is a fun link about spirals.
My babies loved this spiral game.

I like the idea that preschool children need to work out their thoughts using toys.
A Look at Waldorf and Montessori states:

In Waldorf, we feel that it is essential to realize the value of toys to help children to re-enact experiences from life as they actually happen. The less finished and the more suggestive a toy may be the greater its educational value for it really enlivens the imaginative life of the child. So toys in the Waldorf kindergarten may be rounds of wood cut from birch logs, seashells, lengths of colored silk or cotton for costuming or house building, soft cloth dolls with a minimum of detail in faces or clothing, etc. allowing for open-ended imaginative play.

My children loved playing going to the market, or reenacting a party. Even something sad, like getting at shot at the doctor’s , was played out by my children, which would lessen the stress for them.
Free play is a part of a Montessori classroom and Waldorf toys could be a valuable part of creative free play.

TJ Leone of Northwest University has written an interesting article, Montessori Classroom Culture and Effective Use of Computers in School. He writes,

…the logistics of the Montessori classroom seemed to lend itself to effective use of computers. The fact that
Montessori kids are free to work independently, either alone or in small groups, means that
some kids could be off working on a small number of computers at any time of day without
disrupting the normal flow of classroom activities. Also, part of the work of the
Montessori teacher is to evaluate didactic instruments to see how well they support
learning, so I was interested in hearing what Montessori teachers had to say about computers in the classroom.

What age you introduce computers to your children is controversial. Rules for computer use is very important. You need to set standards of safety, time and place for kids using the internet. I know some Montessori schools don’t introduce computers to kids until they are six. I let my children do some computer programs during preschool and it seemed to work out great for us.
Here are some my old blogs about this-

Computers and Kids
Computer Programing Olympiad