Montessori Work Plans and Resources

Through the years, I have tried to create many work plans. I honestly just like designing them, and trying to make them more useable for the students!

Here is a timeline of the work plans I have used:

Here is a link to the free resources

The first I started with was this one: 

I co taught with my dad the first year of teaching Lower Elementary and this is a the work plan he was using. We would write in the work for each grade level and print copies for them. The con to this one was that it wasn't too customizable and the same grades basically had the same work. 

That same year, I was in the first year of training and I started creating a lot of different work plans. This is the one I ended up making next.

This one was way more customizable for the students and they would write down the presentations and work for each day. The works at the bottom, where works they had to complete during the week and they could pick them whenever they wanted. I did really like this work plan, but it was too "grown-up" for first, second, and third years. They did understand it, though, but the ones that come next are much better. 

So then I made this work plan the following year when I now had my own class, but the issue was that this year half my students where in person and half the students where online and I would make packets to send home, so this was when I needed a work plan that would work for both scenarios. I really liked this work plan.

This is the third grade example, but the other grades were the same, with just less/different daily tasks. All the work under each day would be the daily work and for spots one and two that would be for a presentations. Usually it was a cultural work and a math, language, or geometry presentation that they would complete a follow up for. I did really enjoy using this one. 

After that, I stopped working at the school and actually taught Early Childhood/Kindergarten for a year. I did make a Kindergarten work plan that looked very similar to the ones above.

They only ever checked off the word, math, and reading. For words, it was just one of the pink, blue, or green series cards that they would write down, then they would solve nine math facts, and then they would read the next book in the series to me for reading. They never actually wrote anything on the lines. I wanted to have them have a work plan, because I knew I would have a lot of the for the next since I would get to teach Lower Elementary at this current school I am at. 

Now this year, I made this work plan for Lower Elementary.

This is my second favorite work plan I have ever made! The students knew they had to complete the 6 daily works and then complete a math, language, and a cultural work every day. We used this work plan for almost the whole year. Since the students got a new work plan weekly, the presentations that would be written on the lines would still be there until they completed it, so students would have to look back a "old" work plans and they didn't very much like that, but overall this work plan was a success! 

About a month ago I wanted to try something slightly different, and this is the current work plan I use now.

IT IS MY FAVORITE ONE I HAVE EVER MADE!!!  The student REALLY enjoy it because it is so, so easy for them to see what they have complete or not completed. The top works are the daily works they need to complete each day, and then they need to complete a math, language, and cultural work each day. Behind this page in their binder, is the weekly editing sheet, and then three pieces of loose lined paper: one for math, language, and cultural. These are were their presentations are written. So they look from the lists to see what work they have to complete, once the complete it, they write it in the box. After switching to this work plan, more students complete all 10 tasks for the day, and it really boosts their confidence to learn and complete tasks!

Here is a video about the work plans and more free Montessori Resources I have created:

Again, here is the link to the free resources! Contact me or email me at bethany@partsofthelanguage.com if you have any questions.