This past week, while the girls were taking it easy and recovering from all the events the week before, I was busy getting next month's calendar ready. It normally takes me 3 nap times to create, plan and map out each days lessons for the following month. So roughly 3 days of nothing but planning.
Again, as mentioned is my post "May Calendar," this is more of an outline and a shopping list for me that changes frequently as the days go on depending on the eagerness of each girl.
I share this to give people new to the Montessori concept an idea of what kind of activities are done, how often, and how a child progresses. I also do it so you can see what kind of format works for us in case you want to try this type of calendaring for yourself.
When I first started this journey over a year ago there were no free montessori based scheduling programs or apps to give someone an idea of how to put together a timeline or an expectation of what activities a child could do. I had to start completely from scratch and it was a little difficult and there were a lot of changes. In fact, I still haven't found a calendar format that might be helpful or beneficial to our journey.
So I hope these can help someone, but if not at least you can get a sneak peek of what we might be doing in any given day.
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