Presentations, not lessons

Montessori Lesson Plan Templates

A Montessori classroom does not run on a weekly grid; the guide plans presentations for particular children and keeps a record of what has been presented, what each child is working on, and what is mastered. These two sheets are those two documents: the week's planning by area, and the record you keep all year.

Plan the week, keep the record

2 Montessori planning templates

Portrait Montessori weekly planning sheet with five curriculum-area rows and columns for children, presentation, date given and observation, plus boxes for children to observe and environment prep

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Montessori Weekly Planning Sheet — Word & Google Docs

For the guide: presentations to give this week by area, which children they are for, when they were given, and the observation that follows.

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PDF

Montessori Weekly Planning Sheet — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Landscape Montessori presentation record grid with fourteen child rows, a child-name column and twelve numbered presentation columns, and a presentation key box beneath

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Montessori Presentation Record — Word & Google Docs

Children down the side, twelve presentations across, one page per area. Mark P, W or M with a date; the key box names the columns.

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PDF

Montessori Presentation Record — fillable PDF

One page, landscape. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the montessori templates

Searches for a Montessori lesson plan template mostly return day-by-day grids that no Montessori guide would use. What guides describe keeping is a matrix — children down the side, presentations across, a page per curriculum area — marked as each presentation is given, worked with and mastered, plus some form of weekly planning: which presentations to offer which children this week, and what was observed. The presentation record here is the matrix, with twelve numbered columns and a key box so you name the materials yourself; the weekly planning sheet is the other half, with the five standard areas as rows and columns for the children, the presentation, the date given and the observation that follows.

Both use the five area names every training recognizes — practical life, sensorial, language, mathematics, culture — and nothing more specific. The sequence of presentations within an area is the content of your album, and the sheets leave it to you rather than reproducing one training's version.

Questions teachers ask

Montessori lesson plans, answered

What do P, W and M mean?

Presented, working with it, mastered — the three states a presentation record tracks, each with the date. Some guides add a fourth for a presentation a child has refused or is not ready for; use a dash. The codes are printed under the grid on both sheets.

How many presentation record pages do I need?

One per area per group of fourteen children, and a fresh set when the twelve columns are full. Most primary classrooms run five or six area pages at a time; the page field in the header keeps them in order.

Is this for toddler, primary or elementary?

The sheets are level-neutral: the areas are the same names across levels and the material columns are yours to fill. Elementary guides who plan by great lesson and follow-up work will find the weekly planning sheet fits; the record works at any level.