Botany is a year round subject that is heavily emphasized from the very beginning of a traditional Montessori education. A student would typically begin working with these puzzles and booklets between 3-4 years of age.
In our Montessori homeschool, we tend to focus on leaves and trees in the fall and then more on seeds and flowers in the spring. Of course there is always some overlap, but that’s kind of our rough plan. We have been working more with the Tree of Life this year and just finished a review of the Animal Kingdom and are moving into the Plant Kingdom now. These are our materials for the study of botany. This is also roughly the order I present everything in (with the exception of the poem and books at the bottom, that is throughout).
Botany Puzzles
(Available as a set on Amazon or individually)
Parts of a ______ Booklets and Cardwork
3 Part Cards for Plant Life Cycles and Identification
(Post on making the File Folder Games for 3 Part Cards)
(Leaf Characteristics- Trees and Plants 3 Part Cards)
Plants We Eat Booklets
(available from Montessori Services)
Leaf Shape Matching and Searching Game
(Montessori Materials link)
Botany Books, etc.
I don’t have a source on the poem, I wish I did!
Other Resources
Seed/Plant Matching Cards
Cultural Materials from Montessori for Everyone
Botany Classification Charts
Photosynthesis Manipulatives and Task Cards
Winter Gardening & Plant Study
We use the library a lot for all of our science work, I have 3-5 books on most topics that I really like, but then we gather more specific books as they become relevant. The truth is, this is only a small portion of what materials would be traditionally available for all the way from birth through 12, but it feels like enough for me right now. There are some botany charts and things that I may start to work on, but right now I’m still working on my geography charts and I can’t do both!
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