| Patient Waiting for the Earth to Bloom Develops a Little Child Spiritually | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE |
| Back-yard Apparatus for the Physical Development of Children Is Valuable | [28] |
| An Important Physical Exercise of Montessori | [30] |
| Hand and Eye Work in Connection in Exercises of Practical Life | [32] |
| Walking upon a Line Gives Poise and Muscular Control | [34] |
| The Kind of Toy Dr. Montessori Recommends for Physical Development | [36] |
| Replacing the Solid Insets by the Sense of Touch Alone | [70] |
| Building the Tower and the Broad Stair | [70] |
| A Fineness of Perception Is Developed by Discriminating Different Textiles Blindfolded | [74] |
| Perfecting the Sense of Touch with the Geometric Insets | [76] |
| To Match the Colors Two by Two Is the First Exercise | [84] |
| Grading Each Standard Color and Its Related Colors in Chromatic Order | [88] |
| All the Colors of Nature May be Found | [88] |
| Every Child Should Have a Pet | [110] |
| The Loving Care of a Dumb Animal Results in Child Sympathy | [114] |
| To Feel that Something Is Dependent upon Him for Care and Food Helps a Child to Reverence Life | [116] |
| Building Words with the Movable Alphabet | [122] |
| Learning the Form of Letters by the Sense of Touch | [126] |
| Filling in Outlines with Color to Gain the Muscular Control Necessary for Writing | [126] |