Various Free Montessori 3-Part Cards

This post includes links to some of the Montessori 3-part cards I’ve made over the years. Most of them are free!

Montessori Sorting Activity: Living Nonliving Cards

 Montessori-Style Animal Cards: Sorting Vertebrates-Invertebrates and Animals of the 5 Kingdoms

U.S. Landmarks and Symbols – 3 part cards FREE — We placed these cards on a huge US map we have as we learned where these famous landmarks are locate.

Animals Around the World :

Here is an explanation of how my daughter used World Animal Cards to reinforce her understanding of world geography:

As I mentioned on Friday, ED has been working on her world geography. She has spent a couple of weeks going over the 7 continents again and working with some Montessori 3-part cards I made for her.  They are probably available elsewhere, but I wanted both small cards to place on each continent and some larger ones so she could work on word-matching.

As she sang the 7-continents song (that I mentioned on Friday), she looked at the animal cards for each continent and placed them on the proper continent. Come see our 7 Continents Song you-tube video over at this post... the kids sang through the the song to help someone (overseas) learn the tune!

She did this with a large world map we have:

Another day, she identified and set out the satellite photos we have of the continents. These continent cards are available free at ETC Montessori (these are no longer available).

Once she was pretty familiar with the animals on each continent, I brought out the Montessori 3-part cards.  I printed out two sets of each and cut out the animals and word labels. She had to match them to the picture.

At the end of the week, I challenged her to match the word to the picture (without the control card)!

We also brought out all our plastic animals and she spent a couple of days sorting those onto the world map as well:

If you are interested, you can print out your own world animal cards.  They come both as large cards and as smaller versions of the same cards. I’ve been doing this activity with the kids since they were about 3 years old. You will find the  3-Part Montessori Cards — Animals of the 7 Continents at this post. (Note: these are now $2.00)

After I made this post, someone overseas asked me if I could teach them the 7-continents song.  The kids made a little video to show how we used these cards.  Here’s the post — Kids Sing the 7 Continents Song. Or click on the picture which will take you to the post where the video is located:

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Related Posts:

• At this post I shared our free Montessori World Pin Map.

• Montessori Geography Activities
• More Geography Activities 4+
• Rainforest Plants (from around the world)

• World Biomes Pin Map — This is perfect when you are studying the biomes — savannah, grasslands, tundra, deserts, etc.:

• Preschool Geography: Where I Live

• The Seven Continents and World Landmarks
• Famous Rocks around the World (FREE)

• Rainforest Plants (from around the world)

Forest Animal Sort Cards (into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians)

 

• Bear Lapbook These were some of the activities we did when DD studied bears as a preschooler. 🙂

Around this time, we also did a cute activity about The Mitten, by Jan Brett. And, we have some free printables about the Animals in the Mitten here:

If you found these useful, I would love to hear from you either here in the comments area (it works now!) or over at my Homeschool Den Facebook Page! That’s also a great place to go catch up on some of the posts you might have missed lately. I keep a running list of all our posts there. ~Liesl

P.S. We have a new Animal Packet that I made for the kids: You might want to check out details here: Animal Unit: Types of Animals Packet (30+ pages)

You might also be interested in our Pirate Math Packet which has math games and activities we did when the kids were about 4-6.  At this post, you can also see the Montessori place value activities we did to introduce the kids to larger numbers!

We also have a Dinosaur Packet that might be of interest:

 As your kids get older, you might be interested in these homeschool resources:
Creating a Homeschool Curriculum: Kindergarten – Grade 1 This is a free 50-page resource guide that offer suggestions of topics to study in math, language arts, science, history/geography and more.

Early Elementary Homeschool Science