Three Period lesson and memory game

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Three period lessons are used for teaching new words to the Montessori children. The directress teaches both names of material and the names of qualities (positive, comparatives and superlative) related to the material. The three period lessons are;

Ø  Naming period

Ø  Recognition and Association Period

Ø  Pronouncing Period

Naming period:

The directress presents the child with three contrasting objects, and places them on a mat leaving some distance between them.  Then, she feels the objects thoroughly one at a time. Then she asks the child to repeat as she does. After the child has felt these objects and placed them back. Then she places her finger on a tip of the object and gives name saying “this is___________.” For instance this is cube. She gives names to all objects in the same way.  Then, the teacher will repeat the names of each of the objects.

Recognition and Association Period:

After naming the objects, the directress will ask her students to recognize objects by their names … saying,” Show me ______ “. For example show me the cube.

Pronouncing period:

When the directress is sure that the child can name the object, then she challenges the child to name the object himself. For instance, she may point out the object and ask “what is this” the child answers “This is cube.”

In the three period lessons, there are three grading lesson and that are Positives, comparative and superlative.  Here taking an adjective to explain these periods.

Grading	Positives	Comparatives	Superlatives
First Period	This is big cube	This cube is bigger than this.	This cube is biggest.
Second Period	Show me the big cube.	Show me the cube which is slightly bigger than this book.	Show me the biggest cube.
Third Period	What is this?	Which cube is bigger?	Which cube is biggest?

Memory Games:

Memory games can be introduced to children before and after the three period lessons.  These games are helpful for children to bring interest in those materials that they already know very well. It is child’s nature to lose interest in the materials that he knows very well and memory games help them to build interest back in known material.

Children need to revise his lesson again and again which they have already learnt. These games help them to learn their activities and materials which they have been learnt. These games also help to motivate students in discovering variations in materials.

These games help the teacher to verify the child’s language of the material as well as these games prolong the activity with the material which result a stronger absorption by the child.

Game1:

Matching at a distance:

Ø  Place two different tables with distance.

Ø  Put a pair of materials, one on each table.

Ø  The teacher takes one object from the table and asks her student to feel it by holding the object in his hand.

Ø  Then asks the child to bring the same object from the distant table.

Game2:

Grading from a distance:

From a midpoint:

Ø  Place two different tables with distance.

Ø  Place the grading materials (e.g. pink tower, broad stairs etc.) at random on one of the table.

Ø  Pick up one of the extreme (for instance largest cube in the pink tower) and move it to the other table and place it there.

Ø  Then ask your student to feel it and bring that cube which is just a smaller than this one.

Ø  Continues up to the smallest cube.

From a midpoint:

Ø  Place two different tables with distance from one another.

Ø  Place the grading materials at random on one of the table.

Ø  Then pick up middle sized cube in the pink tower and move it to the other table.

Ø  Ask the child feel it and bring the cube which is just smaller or bigger from that one.

Game3:

Stereognostic:

Ø  It should be done in the group.

Ø  Children sit in the circle around a mat.

Ø  Then directress gives them material in their hands( for instance one cube of the pink tower to each student).

Ø  Then children hold cube behind their back and feel them.

Ø  Then directress asks for the largest cube and it should be placed on the mat.

Ø  Children judge the cube size and place it on the mat.

Game4:

Material to the environment:

Ø  Spread out the mat and place the material for instance color tablets on the mat randomly.

Ø  The directress takes tablets and asks her students to figure out something in the environment of that same color and shade.

Game5:

Matching at the distance:

Ø  Spread out the mat and place the material for instance color tablets on the mat randomly.

Ø  The directress gives something to child from the environment and asks her student to match it to the closest match in the material on the mat.

To sum up, three period lessons and memory games have a great importance in the Montessori school. They are really helpful in teaching Montessori students.