The Montessori 3–6 curriculum, on one map.
Every work in the five areas of the primary room, in the order it is presented, with the steps and the reasons. The infant and toddler program, birth to 3, has its own map. School accounts also see the state standards each work meets.
239 works43 strands36 classroom norms
How to use the workbook
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Find the child on the map
The full map shows every strand across ages 3 to 6. Select a work to see, by name, what it needs first and what it leads to.
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Open the next work
Each work page has the materials, numbered presentation steps, extensions from easiest to hardest, the control of error, and the signs that the child is ready to move on.
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Check the standard
With a school account, every work lists the state standards it addresses, and the standards page shows coverage by subject.
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Plan the month
The themes calendar gives each month a theme, weekly focuses, celebrations around the world, and featured works from all five areas.
Reading the beads
The workbook uses the colors of the Montessori bead stair, the same bars children count with.
Each area has one bead color
- Practical Life — the 2-bar
- Sensorial — the 3-bar
- Language — the 9-bar
- Mathematics — the 10-bar
- Cultural — the 1-bar
Ages and steps count in beads
- Age 3 — three pink beads
- Age 4 — four yellow beads
- Age 5 — five light-blue beads
- Age 6 — six lavender beads
Presentation steps use the same bars: step 2 is two green beads. Plate numbers such as SE 1.04 (area, strand, work) match between screen and print.
Also in the workbook
- Birth to 3The infant and toddler program: movement, care routines, language, and the first sensorial materials, from the first weeks to age 3.
- Classroom norms and expectationsGround rules, routines, grace and courtesy, the work cycle, a sample day, and what children typically do in each year.
- State standards coverageFor school accounts: your state’s early learning and kindergarten standards with the works that meet them.
- Themes calendarAugust to May, from “Me and My Classroom” to “Life Cycles, How I Have Grown, and Moving On”.
- Why it worksPrinciples, kinds of lessons, record keeping, and the research behind the sequence, with sources.