ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
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
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