Montessori Apps, Tools, and Resources That We Love
Are you looking for Montessori apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.
ABC Phonics – Word Family Tree– Combines phonics, spelling, beginning sound word family phonics, short vowel sounds, and images with many visual enhancements for each word. The app includes a total of 56-word family groups to be used to teach short and long vowels, spelling, and pronunciation using the Montessori Method.
Montessorium: Intro to Words – This is an introduction to letter identification and word formation using the Montessori curriculum. It includes the popular “I Spy” game with the colorful moveable alphabet. Children use the moveable alphabet, and beautiful stickers to tell their story. The letters are sounded out as the children drag them along the screen. Other exercises require the children to choose the letter or group of letters that spell the image provided on the screen.
Montessori Geometry –- Recognize and learn shapes – This platform teaches children how to recognize and name geometric shapes. The game consists of puzzles that are designed to teach kids the names of different shapes. As students make progress, they earn points, which are then converted into medals.
Montessori Preschool – is a comprehensive early learning app. It covers phonics, letter tracing, counting, shapes, colors… in a fun and engaging environment. With new games added every 2 months, the app also offers tons of activities to develop critical thinking, learn foreign languages, and even think like a coder! With its carefully crafted designs, Montessori Preschool is beautiful to look at and answers several user requests such as child profile management, screen time management, and even device space management. The app is free to download, and 10 games are completely free to try. Users who want to try more have a 7-day free trial period before the subscription (monthly or yearly) starts.
Montessori Letter Sounds– Phonics is a critical skill and can be hard for teachers or parents to teach. Montessori Letter Sounds is an award-winning app that starts children on the path to reading in no time. Three-year-olds begin by playing I Spy, and five-year-olds finish with combining letter sounds and shapes. In between, children learn the alphabet. As children progress, they will earn small prizes and marbles that let them know they are doing a great job.
Montessori Numbers-Coupled with the Montessori Letter Sounds app, Montessori Numbers helps teach children the foundations of math. Three- to seven-year-old children can use this app to begin understanding numerology, numerals, numbers 0 through 100, quantifying, counting, and more. Children can play lots of activities and games that have multiple difficulty levels. Pink Tower– This app helps children learn to identify minute differences in shapes and forms. This popular Montessori activity is now available on the iPad to help your toddler prepare for mathematics. It has twelve activities to choose from, each of which requires your child to arrange cubes in the correct order until the desired pattern is formed.
Alpha Writer Montessori–Your child will learn the basic foundations of language from three internationally recognized artists: Zepton, Mike Lowry, and Marloes de Vries. They will teach your child to recognize consonants and vowels, pronunciation, reading, word formation, and stories using over 100 illustrations available on the app.
Intro to Letters– Your child will learn to read, write, trace, and record letter sounds, phonograms, and names based on the widely accepted methodology of Montessori. Intro to Letters will teach your child the basic foundations of language, reading, writing, and understanding of letters a-z (both lowercase and uppercase) as well as their sounds and symbols. Intro to Letters is a universal app that works on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
Intro to Math– With Intro to Math, your child will learn to read, write, and understand numbers from 0 to 9. Intro to Math is featured in Best New Apps and Games due to the series of interactive, guided, and challenging activities in the app to aid learning. It uses the approved Montessori methods to teach children basic math and reading and writing numbers from 0 to 9.