Montessori Suppliers

After my last post I found a few other suggestions for ordering materials, and since there is too much information for me to keep straight, I decided to consolidate it here!

My teacher Karen suggested Alison's Montessori and mentioned that her students get a discount, a commenter from my last post also suggested them.

Someone else suggested Kid Advance, and for my order at least they are coming out $20 cheaper

I googled something like "montessori materials reviews" and came across these links:

Just a forum post

Wild Flowers and Marbles - Why We Chose Montessori (reading material)

I'm A Full Time Mummy - Montessori Print Shop review

Living Montessori Now - Where to Buy Montessori Materials

Maybe Montessori - Cylinder blocks on eBay

Montessori MOMents - Adena Montessori Review

Chasing Cheerios - Where to Buy

Montessori Candy - Montessori Education Supplies Review

Child and Me -  Montessori Resources (books, suppliers)

Inside these links I'm finding a lot of information to sort through.  Since I don't have time to read them in detail right now, I'll just leave the links and come back to them soon.

**EDIT**
Rather than make another post, I decided to edit this one.  I made this chart to compare suppliers since there are so many!  Looks like IFIT is the winner, but only if you order over $500 to get free shipping.  They are in Canada, so shipping is really high from them.  Without free shipping, I think Kid Advance was the winner.  I believe there are more suppliers out there, but I'm not sure I'm going to go through the trouble of checking their prices too.

	Allison’s	Kid Advance	A Plus	M Outlet	IFIT	Grandpas
Period 1
cylinder blocks	140	110	104	120	130	99
pink tower	35	35	32	38	32	35
presentation tray	33	25	25	27	25	30
geometric solids	60	50	50	57	42	45
land & water globe	35	25	23	na	18	na
Period 2
geometric cabinet	185	135	147	119	120	165
single letter sp letters	35	15	30	34	28	na
maps	48	25	26	30	28	25
Period 3
double sp letters	30	24	24	23	22	22
number rods	28	25	21	26	20	29
Period 4
sp numbers	16.5	15	15	7	13	7
spindles	36	27	26	32	27	35
$500 order shipping	82	69	0	0	0	50
discount	-68.15	-48
	695.35	532	523	513	505	542
						shipping estimated

Bolded items are the things I added from my previous order to get to $500. As you can see, it only took four things to go from $200 to $500. But, I get to spend that entire $300 on materials, rather than wasting $60 on shipping!