3 part Montessori Cards for the Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1908-1917

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This is my second batch of 3 part Montessori cards for the Nobel Peace Prize winners.  Here is the post that covers the years 1901-1907 from last month.  Today, these cover the years 1908-1917.  The strange year separations are partly based on my desire to keep each batch to 10 cards and partly based on the years involved.  These cards span the years of WWI (when the Prize was not awarded for several years) so there's opportunities for interesting conversations regarding that.

These are formatted large to make it easier for me.  I think they're just the right size finished if you print them two pages per sheet.  As always, print two copies so you have a control.

The current Nobel Prize winner was announced last week.  Here is the announcement regarding the winner, the European Union, at the Nobel Prize website.  Here is the link to the kids/education division of the EU to learn more about the organization.


Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1908-1917

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Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1901-1907 - 3 part Montessori Cards

 World Peace Day was celebrated yesterday, Sept. 21st

The day is "devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples."  Here is the link to the official UN page.  Here is the link to the UN's peace curriculum through their Cyber School Bus.

The reminder about the day and getting the Montessori cards below reminded me of the day I spent at the Caen Memorial Museum when I was in France.  It was an amazing place and the Gallery of Nobel Peace Prize winners exposed me to people I never learned about in history like the people who founded The Hague.

I've been having trouble deciding how to start world history with the Toads.  Yes, much of human life has been brutal and short but it seems like many history books tell history as a succession of battles for political control illustrated with men using historically accurate weaponry.  Accurate yes, appropriate for 6 year olds, not as much.  So I'm trying A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich.  It's barely illustrated and I intend it as a read aloud right now.  I like his writing style, it covers more than just western Europe, and it includes more than battle descriptions.



So, with all this inspiration and swirling thoughts, I made up a set of 3-part Montessori cards for the Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901-1907, since they were not available anywhere I could find.  The arbitrary years are based on number of pages.  I included where the winners were from to complement our geography work and why they won the prize or a brief quote from the recipient.  They could easily be turned into a book or printed double sided as folio cards if that suits your needs better.
Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1901-1907

I was inspired by this project so I will continue to work up through the years and hopefully complete a full complement of cards for all the winners.  The website for the Nobel Prize has extensive info about all the prize and winners.

In celebration of World Peace Day, Montessori Helper is having a dime sale on their Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2000-2010 3-part cards.  Here is the direct link.  *If you purchase the cards through the link I will get a teeny commission that will get put towards other Montessori cards.

We donated this book to our local public library for older Toad's birthday this year.  It has dynamic illustrations and is good biography for young kids.

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2012 Global Peace Index

The 2012 Global Peace Index has been released by the Institute of Economics and Peace.  You can visit the report's interactive map here to see how the different nations in the world are ranked.  Iceland is ranked #1.

Quiet Space

We've been having good results from our quiet space.  I put this package together after a rough week in April when it became clear we needed a fresh idea for all of us to blow off some steam.

Counting Coconuts blog has a great post about their family peace space here that I found inspiring.  There is also a very informational blog post about Montessori inspired peace education activities here at Living Montessori Now.

I designed the space with older toad in mind so I was really focusing on sensory activities that can be calming for him.  It's in no way a bad place to be sent.  It's an alternative where he can go and take some time to come up with some better choices.  He has both chosen to use the space of his own accord when he could tell he was escalating as well as taken advantage of the suggestion that it might be something he could benefit from before things got out of hand.  He's even done it with younger toad, mostly peacefully.  Daddy toad has benefited from it as well.

He has a rug and pillow to sit on.  For visual sensory activities he has Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry MacLean.  We've had the book for awhile before it was reassigned to the quiet space.  We tried several handmade Moody Cow jars (meditation tool that Moody Cow uses) but they all broke open after being dropped on our tile floors so for the quiet space I bought a commercial one.




For large motor sensory calming he has Mindful Movements by Thich Nhat Hanh.

For aural sensory calming he has a MP3 player with his music loaded on to it and I changed the file name on this to quiet place so he can find it.

For fine motor sensory calming I put together two activities.  One is a finger labryinth.  I did a google image search for a labryinth I liked and printed it out.  I enlarged the image I used to be able to fit a finger between the lines well.  I cut it out and glued it to a cardboard backing.  We sat down with some glue and a bag of mixed bean soup mix from the grocery store and glued the beans on.  I finished it with Modge Podge to hopefully make it last a bit longer.  Older toad did his all by himself in 2 sessions, younger toad tired quickly and only did some but we only needed one in the end and everyone participated.  You can use your finger to trace over or between the beans and both provide more sensory input than just following the path printed on paper.

Our other fine motor activity is a shell collage kit.  The larger shells were collected in Spain and the smaller ones in France.  Both are sort of leftovers from a project but still special and that was conveyed.  He thought they were neater than shells from our beach because of it.

For oral sensory calming I went to the dollar store and got a pack of little windmills.

I buy my lavender here because I lived on Whidbey Island for 10 years and if I'm going to pay to have it shipped anyway I might as well support the island economy.  Lavender is a calming scent and cloves are stimulating.  I explained that to toad and he gets to choose what he's in the mood for.

I just wish I had more time to use the quiet space!

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