Montessori Great Lessons Summer Camp — The Third Great Lesson

Since this is our last summer of homeschooling, I decided to go out with a BIG BANG [*wink wink*] — a Great Lessons Summer Camp! I put together 9 weeks of summer fun studying the 5 Montessori Great Lessons, and we’re loving it so far. I didn’t make any of these materials myself — just curated the contents from multiple sources I’ve found — and I’m sharing the whole camp plans and where to find the resources we’re using this summer. If you want to know what we did for the First & Second Great Lessons, check these posts:

Montessori Great Lessons Summer Camp — Intro + The First Great Lesson

Montessori Great Lessons Summer Camp — The SEcond Great LEsson

The Third Great Lesson is the Coming of Humans. On the first day, I will tell the story of the Coming of Humans using this Great Lessons Pack along with a book. The girls will use a couple of pages from the pack to record their responses to it, then they will be free to choose shelf work. On the following days, we’ll read more books, do some sorting work, and compare creation of humans stories from other cultures. Here’s a quick outline of each day’s group lesson:

Day 1: Tell the Third Great Lesson Story, respond, read Mammals Who Morph
Day 2: Read Miss Barbara’s Third Great Lesson on Human Evolution
Day 3: Compare and Contrast Humans with other Mammals
Day 4: Fundamental Needs of Humans
Day 5: Read a creation story — Raven the Creator
Day 6: Read a creation story — Quiche part 3
Day 7: Read a creation story — Yahweh the creator
Day 8: Write own creation of humans story

After each group lesson, the girls will be free to choose work from the shelves. We keep much of our usual work out, and add a few items to go along with the Third Great Lesson: