How we make room for Montessori when we don't have a room for it

Today's post is brought to you by my phone, so the photos are not the best. However, I wanted to share how we make room for Montessori when we don't have a room for it.

Our living room has a few shelves holding our Montessori materials. Above is our sensorial shelf with the Pink Tower, Brown Stair, Color Tablet Box 2, Knobbed Cylinders, Binomial Cube, DIY sound Jars and Pressure Cylinders.

 

I keep some material in storage for rotation. So far the tower, stair, and cylinders are permanently on this shelf.

 

Close by is a small work area where I do a lot of rotation (usually home to my DIY materials). Pictured are DIY Tactile Bean Bag Match, DIY Montessori Folding Cloths, my M inspired lowercase alphabet with DIY coin box seen here, and some wooden puzzles.

 

You can somewhat see our train table which we use for a lot of work, and not far from that is an Ikea table with two chairs for another work space. The kids will also use mats on the floor for designated work areas, usually for larger activities such as the tower and brown stair.

 

In the other corner, closest to our kitchen, are our geography and Metal Inset shelves.

 

The top geography shelf, is a wooden Flags of The World map with a small bowl holding the country flags my son and his friend are familiar with (so far they have 8 flags they are able to identify and stick into the puzzle).

The tray on top holds the Around The World Toob with real life photos of the monuments. We use a 3 period lesson for these, and independently, the children can match the monuments to their pictures.

Behind the small globe is my son's Little Passports suitcase. He receives a new country in the mail to explore every month.

 

I recently wrote about our the beautiful pink and blue metal insets here.

 

Close by, in the kitchen, we have our math and language shelves. These items are most often worked on at the kitchen table. In the drawers above are our pencils and colored pencils.

 

On the top: Hundred's Board, Spindle Box, Sandpaper Numbers in a sand tray, Wooden Numbers and Counters, and our Teens Board.

On the bottom: Bob Books, Moveable Alphabet Box, Sandpaper letters: upper and lowercase, and a wooden bowl with my daughter's Moveable Alphabet figurines and picture cards.

 

We also have a little basket close by with our Montessori Books: Map Work, Letter Work, Number Work, and Shape Work.

 

So, while we don't have a Montessori homeschool room, we make it work with the little space we do have - and it works very well! Hope you enjoyed viewing our shelves:)