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You are here: Home / Teachers / Classroom Showcase / Classroom Showcase: Miss Stephanie

Classroom Showcase: Miss Stephanie

May 24, 2015 By Seemi

This is the very first post is our Montessori Classroom Showcase series.  I’m very excited about sharing with you Montessori classrooms from around the world!  If you would like to have your classroom included in our series, please read details about how to contribute here. 

I’ve been in the classroom for over 15 years now and I still don’t get tired of looking at how Montessori teachers have arranged their shelves.  I always get a new idea to try.  And sometimes I see something that makes me completely change up an entire area of my class.

I hope you find this series fun and inspiring, and I hope you will consider contributing too!


I want to say a special thank you to our very first contributor- Stephanie from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Stephanie is a 3-6 teacher at the Campus School of Carlow University.

Stephanie: Each month I publish photos of our shelves that have new work (Science, 1 language shelf, practical life, art, peace, movement, and perhaps geography) in a photo album for our class in Montessori Compass. These are the photos that are shared from March with a few that were taken at the beginning of the year (math, sensorial, language, etc).

A tour of Stephanie's Montessori classroom

 Miss Stephanie’s Class

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom view from door

View of the classroom from the door.  I love all the windows!

 

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom view from rear of room

View of the classroom from the rear.  Do you notice the pretty little potted plants on the work tables? I also like how the line taped to the floor is so subtle.

Practical Life

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom Practical Life Shelves 1

These Practical Life shelves hold the pouring, spooning/scooping, and squeezing fine motor work.

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom Practical Life Shelves 2

This shelf has a sensory bin with ocean animals in water beads, banana slicing, pattern dots, pinching beads fish, brads, shell scrubbing, and silver polishing.

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom practical Life shelves 3

This Practical Life shelf has preliminary sewing work like stringing, lacing, button sewing, embroidery hoop, and sewing forks.

Sensorial

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom Sensorial shelves 1

This sensorial shelf holds the materials for working with size, shape, color, grading, and classifying.  I like how the color tablets are placed in the clear containers.  Very attractive!

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom Sensorial

Here are all the geometry materials.

Math

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom math shelves 1

This is the first math shelf with the beginning numeracy work such as units, bead stair, spindle box etc.  At the top is the calendar.

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom math shelves 2

Here are the teens, tens, and hundred boards.  There’s also calendar work extensions.

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom math shelves 3

The Golden Bead materials are on this math shelf.

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom math shelves 4

Finally, the operations work is located together here.

Language

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom language shelves 1

The pre-literacy activities on this shelf change monthly.  I can see our middle vowel sorting work from the St. Patrick’s Day Phonological Awareness Pack on the middle shelf!

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom language shelves 2

Sandpaper letters!  You can also see the Handwriting Without Tears wooden Build Draw & Write kit on the middle shelf with other printing materials.  The bottom shelf has the Movable Alphabet.

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom language shelves 3

The top shelf is a continuation of the sandpaper letter sets.  I always find it fascinating to see the many ways people sort their letters.  Below that are movable alphabet objects and extensions.  The bottom shelf has sight words and parts of speech work.

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom language shelves 4

Here you see the beautiful Waseca Reading Program materials.  The drawers are just so stunning!

Cultural

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom cultural 1

What an attractive area!
They are learning about the ocean so you see all these lovely fish and ocean themed materials on their science shelves.

Objects and exploration
Characteristics and parts of a fish
Ocean animal nomenclature and little book
Fish/Crustacean/Echinoderm sorting (fun!)
Parts of a Starfish
Ocean Animal Who Am I?

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom cultural 2 EuropeThe Geography shelves have a focus on Europe.
Objects from Europe
Flags of Europe
Houses
Sorting Plants and Animals from Europe
Europe A-Z 3-Part Cards and little book
Europe Biomes
Europe Biome Readers from Waseca

Peace Shelf

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom peace shelf
They have a dedicated shelf with activities for fostering peace

Movement Shelf

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom Movement shelf

This shelf has some great activities for working on gross motor skills

Art Shelf

Campus School of Carlow Montessori classroom Art

Here are some of the activities they have on their art shelf.

 

Thank you to Stephanie for sharing these pictures from her class!

We would LOVE to see your classroom too! If you would like to submit your photos for our Classroom Showcase series, please download the form on the Contribute page.

 

 


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