Marvelous. The child in the picture is just 3 years old. She has learnt how to work with  the pink tower and brown stair individually for few days. I can’t believe that she can arrange these two material in order by herself without any help.

Although every material in Montessori Environment has its own purpose and has it proper way to work with. However, it doesn’t mean that it won’t allow any variations. Montessori allows children to explore the material with many different ways which follow the children’ will provide that they work with respect for each material.

經常與同業老師溝通談及Montessori教具時，他們一直有誤解認為每件教具只容許一種操作方法。

其實操作教具沒有一定規則，當然每件教具有proper way的操作方法以達至令操作者從中掌握一些概念，但若操作者已經掌握到，而他又有另外一些方法explore教具時，作為老師不會阻止他，只會從旁觀察及欣賞他^^
(當然如果他拿著教具走去打其他小朋友除外，應該不會發生)　

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Most of the people believe that young children know how to read before write. However, in the view of Montessori, she recognised that writing precedes reading. I can’t tell whether her view is right or not. Nowadays, there are a lot of study on how to teach babies read! And it seems work!!! 

What I want to focus is on the children’ motivation on writing.

In my classroom, I found that when children age above 3.5 they love to work with the metal insets to draw shapes with color pencils. It seems that they love to write very much. 

Whereas in the traditional kindergarten which I worked children had no motivation to draw nor write.

One of the reasons I think becasue Montessori Environment allow children free to choose what they want to do. So when the children are ready to write which means they have good eye hand co-ordination and fine motor skill…… and they do it spontenously.  So don’t force children to do things when they are not ready.

Luckily, EMB has a guildlines that no writing until 4.

• The metal inset activites allow children to practice writing. Such as how to hold writing instrument, eye hand co-ordination.
• The lines are drawn inside the triangle are from left to right which let the children practice left to right reading direction.

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有鑑於家長們對蒙特梭利教學法興趣非常濃厚，Ms angie將會10月22日開始，於油麻地舉辨Montessori Teaching Method家長工作坊，因該教學法所涵蓋的範疇甚廣，我將它分為6個範疇，如下。

Ms angie希望家長在工作坊學會

• Montessori Teaching Method的基本原則，能於平時生活上應用
• 與孩子一起自製教具與孩子分享學習的趣味
• 部分感官、數學及語文教具，可以在家中自行介紹給孩子，因為我相信家長才是孩子的第一位老師！

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 I always hear that someone critiizes Montessori Teaching Method that “It doesn’t allow children work together! Which discourage their social development.” In fact, Montessori Environment where allow chidren free to work with other children if they wish. The child is free to carry out any activites with anyone as long as he is not infringing on the rights of others in the classroom.

從前，當我教學經驗尚淺時，每當提及Montessori Teaching Method時常聽到的批評是她不容許孩子一起合作活動，有礙幼兒的社交發展。批評她的人當中有不少是資歷深的校長及專上講師……

但當我研讀她的教學法後及在Montessori School 工作時，我十分欣賞她教學的原則「孩子有自由可以選擇自己想做的活動，他也可以選擇自己進行或邀請其他人與他一起工作。」

I love the child who’s using the words “Can we work together?^^”

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