Her first real classification. Sorting the world into categories is where biology starts, and she has the language to argue about the awkward cases.
You need: A leaf, a stone, a shell, a plant, a spoon, a snail
She sorts, then defends her choices. The shell is the good argument — it was alive once. Let her wrestle with it rather than telling her.
You need: Realistic animal figures — not cartoons
A real Montessori zoology lesson that stays useful for years. Frog and duck belong in two boxes, and that is the interesting part.
You need: Outside
She finds it and says why it is alive. Ko Phangan makes this easy.
Watering the plants and feeding any animal in her life. Caring for something living is the point of the week.
A proper walk outside to find living things. Geckos, ants, crabs, chickens.
Optional and very long. Thirty minutes, then stop.
Ask "is it alive?" and "where does it live?" rather than just naming animals.
Press ⌘P — only the sheets below print, never this plan. A4, no scaling.
Sort first. Name it only once sorting is easy.
Sort first. Name it only once sorting is easy.
Week 9 — Living, not living, and where things live. One line a day is plenty. Write what she did, not what she got right.
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Week 9 — Living, not living, and where things live