Montessori Activities

What is Montessori Activities app?

Montessori Activities app is for parents and teachers and is full of activity ideas. These ideas are built upon the Montessori method, famous around the world for its constructivist approach, which harnesses children's natural inquisitiveness. Children don't use the app. Parents and teachers use it as a source of inspiration and ideas that they then use to give children the chance to learn through curiosity, play, and interest. This Montessori Activities app review will show how well it meets its aims.

What we love about Montessori Activities?

As much as technology can enhance education, it should not replace other methods of learning. Montessori Activities app is one of the few apps that encourage children to turn off their devices and do something else instead. It is full of ideas and is practical in a way that makes it easy to go from opening the app to putting one of the ideas into practice. You will spend much more time having fun outside of the app than you will when using it, and that is what Montessori Activities app's creators were aiming for.

What skills does it improve?

The topics that the app covers are cultures and world, everyday life, body and senses, and nature. Within these topics, children will be encouraged to develop patience, persistence with tasks, self-assessment, writing preparation, responsibility and more.

What age is it appropriate for?

Montessori Activities app is aimed at children between the ages of 3 and 7 although the activities could be built on or adapted for older children too.

Is Montessori Activities easy to use?

There is a simple but intuitive method of finding the right project for each child at the right time. Three concentric rings control the selected age, the topic, and the amount of time available for the activity. Turning these rings helps you to find something suitable with ease.

How will students benefit?

As education has moved towards a greater dependency on technology, children can miss out on the pleasure of activities away from screens. Whether they are at home or school, even children who are the most ardent lovers of computer-based learning will enjoy seeing the results of these activities or benefit from taking notice of the world around them.

As they do so, children will be learning skills that will be useful both in life and in their school-based education. They may even discover a passion that stays with them throughout their life.

How will teachers benefit?

Even the most creative teacher sometimes needs a spark to start their planning. Montessori Activities is crammed full of creative ideas to be used as they are, adapted, or combined into productive and educational projects for children. Some of these take place over just a few minutes, some last a while and others are longlasting, over multiple days.

How will parents benefit?

If parents did not have the sort of education that the Montessori method advocates, they might struggle to understand how children can benefit from it. Seeing the proposed activities, how to carry them out, and what they teach children in the clear format of Montessori Activities app, will help parents offer the benefits of this effective education method to their children.

As these activities are all done in the real world with physical items, parents will be pleased to see their child engaged in creative tasks that do not rely on screens. The material resources are either freely available or cheap to obtain meaning that parents needn't feel that there will be a further cost to using this app.

What Montessori Activities can improve on?

The experience of using Montessori Activities app is excellent and no part is obviously in need of improvement. The supporting website is quite basic. It would be nice to see some downloadable printable resources to support some of the tasks and help parents who might feel unsure of how to support their children. Such resources would also add to the feeling of value from the subscription and help potential subscribers consider the usefulness of the app.

How much does Montessori Activities cost?

Montessori Activities app is free to download with the option to take out a subscription.

What is included with the free version vs. paid?

The free app, without any subscription, comes with some sample  activities to show you the sort of content that is in the app. These samples are only a tiny sliver of what is available in the full app so you can get an even better idea of the content by taking up the offer of a free 7-day subscription.

Is Montessori Activities safe to use?

There is not anything within Montessori Activities app that children could not view, but they are not the intended users of the app. Instead, it is full of ideas for parents and teachers. The suggested activities are safe when parents and teachers provide the appropriate supervision and guidance.

Overall rating of the app

As you will have seen in this Montessori Activities app review, this app succeeds in its aims. It gives teachers and parents the tools to inspire children to learn new things in new ways. The app adds new activities weekly, so there will always be something new to discover. Montessori Activities is a 5-star app.