| Maria Montessori | Frontispiece | | The schoolroom in the convent of the Franciscan nuns in the Via Giusti | page 8 | | The meal hour | “ 22 | | The morning clean-up | “ 26 | | Waiter carrying soup | “ 26 | | Exercises in practical life | “ 56 | | Building “the Tower” | “ 56 | | Buttoning-frames to develop co-ordinated movements of the fingers and prepare the children for exercises of practical life | “ 68 | | Solid geometrical insets | “ 70 | | The broad stair | “ 74 | | The long stair | “ 74 | | Insets which the child learns to place both by sight and touch | “ 78 | | Tracing sandpaper letters | “ 86 | | Tracing geometrical design | “ 86 | | Training the “stereognostic sense”—combining motor and tactual images | “ 100 | | Color boxes comprising spools of eight colors and eight shades of each color | “ 116 | | Materials for teaching rough and smooth | “ 138 | | Counting boxes | “ 162 | | Insets around which the child draws, and then fills in the outline with colored crayons | “ 188 | | Word building with cut-out alphabet | “ 224 |
A MONTESSORI MOTHER
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