The Red Corolla, Montessori Cosmic Education (for ages 3-6+)

This book contains the lectures I delivered in 2019, for the first AMI Primary course to be given in Morocco. These “culture” lessons are taught in many AMI primary teacher-training courses. Physics, biology, history and geography, and the arts lectures are described in great detail. They lay the foundation before age six for the older child’s search for his Cosmic Task, or meaning in life. Also included are personal “filling in the gaps” assignments for the parent or teacher, and two republished AMI and NAMTA articles, one on Cosmic Education and the second on music for all ages.

What I like about this book is the possibility that it will give to teachers who have not learned in their training this way of presenting the various cultural areas—art, music, geography, biology and physics—to young children.  Its value is in the excellent information about how adults can prepare themselves to inspire children in the first place. Although it is scattered throughout the book, there is information on approaching various ages of children, not just young ones.
—Rita Zener, AMI Montessori Teacher Trainer

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