We bought ours - but honestly if you wished, this would be quite easy to make. At the bottom of the post is a simple down loadable plan you can check out to make one if you wish.
This is a great video for presenting the Hanging Bead Stair Frame. The hbsf is one of many materials for learning linear counting 1-9. She started out using the numbered ruler placed in the channel across the top (as seen in the video) and placing the bars. Now Ava is mixing it up. Here she had hung her beads and labelled them with the number tiles. Sometimes she sorts and places the number tiles (placed in the box out of order) first and then places the bead bars.
Below she is using the ruler to check her work.
This is a set of coloured bead stair 3 part cards (below). Ava is using them here for matching the bead bars. These cards are from Montessori for Learning.Here is another source for information about presenting the bead stair.
There are tons of materials around the web for bead stair work that I found helpful. Here are a few...
The Helpful Garden
Expert Village Video
Montessori for Everyone
Wikisori
Imagine Our Life
Virtual Montessori
Montessori Print Shop
Alison's Montessori
Chasing Bubbles
Pinay Homeschooler
Living Montessori Now
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I am so excited about the links to working with the bead stair and beads :) We have a printable version that we use very similar to one in one of your links, and this is exciting! Thanks for taking the time to give these! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome Amy!! Montessori beads are so pretty and fun to work with:) Do you have a link for yours that you want to share??
DeleteHi Cherine! I need your help. I will be purchasing my first ever Montessori Materials this week and I can't seem to decide which are the "must haves"! I'm totally lost. My list includes decanomial beads, knobless cylinders, red & blue moveable letters and the black moveable letters. I was thinking that with decanomial, we can do a lot of work from here and would be of use to a lot of math activities. For knobless, I admire all the extension work... would really challenge my son and for the letters so we can dig dipper into the digraphs and phonograms (and spelling). BUT I am also thinking of addition/difference equations boxes. Are they worth-it (the boxes)? We'll be doing a lot of addition and subtraction next year so I am torn whether to have them or not without the boards (pricey for me). Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteWell I can tell you that the decanomial bead box was a great choice for us because as you say you can make most activities from this box, as opposed to purchasing them separately. I did also purchase a package of 5 beads stairs from Kid advance to have for extras so that I was sure to keep a complete box - and to account for any poss loss of beads bars. Great choice!! The knobless cylinders are wonderful!! You choice of alphabets are great in that later you can paint the vowels (red & blue box) for more advanced work. As for the operations boxes well... we love ours but if I were to do it over again I may have just printed them. You can easily make them (which you are great at) or Montessori Print Shop has great printables of these. We use ours alot! The printables have the same equations as the boxes. The answer chips usually come with the math charts (for tables work later). I bought the boxes because they contained both the equations and answer chips - but again easily made and big money saver!! Hope this made sense and is helpful:) Good luck!!
DeleteLove this material, and thanks for all the links!
ReplyDeleteIt is a great material!! You are most welcome!! :)
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