Each week I look back trying to remember what we did over the past 5-6 days, and I draw a blank. I can remember that my oldest had a biopsy done to see if her “ringworm” she’s had for several years is actually psoriasis. I recall getting new eyeglasses, and I know we had a…
Time for a Timberdoodle review! Actually I’m months behind for a new Timberdoodle review, so I’ve got like 5 or 6 in the upcoming weeks. Timberdoodle, aside from being a fun word to say, is a hands-on homeschooling curriculum that we’ve enjoyed supplementing (mainly our doctor appointments and car rides) with on our homeschooling journey….
Wow another week blew by so quickly! Somehow I am already in my 34th week of pregnancy and not feeling like working so much, yet we homeschool on. Tonight we are attending a special needs fundraising gala-type-thing, and I’m wearing comfy flats, my maternity dress from Easter #sorrynotsorry and telling baby to scootch over and…
Today’s new presentation tested our gustatory sense with the traditional Montessori tasting bottles. Don’t let my kids’ expressions fool you — the presentation was a lot of fun for everyone. I’ll do my best to explain the set up and process, show my kids’ precious exasperation and tell you where we got all our materials…
Oh dear. Let’s just get this out of the way. Here are our plans for the past week as taken from the last week in review blog post: I give myself an F as in Failed. F minus. Yes we were busy this week, but no we didn’t succeed with that list. Certainly no field…
“The secret of good teaching is to regard the child’s intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.” –Maria Montessori from To Educate the Human Potential These words came to mind when I realized a change was in order for our Montessori grammar work. We…
Wanted to share my youngest, who’s in preschool, accomplishing some great practical life work: caring for our environment by polishing plant leaves. He was concentrating so avidly; this is clearly a great work for developing attention to detail and fine motor. I set up the tray (green for our plants) with a little pitcher to…
Week three of our new series brings us to Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum. We stayed busy as always with our usual Montessori workload. I’m currently reading Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood by Paula Polk Lillard. This book is a great overview of the whole Montessori pedagogy, and I’ve…
I’ve had a lot of people begin to notice we have homeschool uniforms this year. The conversation generally goes like this, “Are those HOMESCHOOL uniforms?” I reply, “Yes indeed!” And they usually say something affirmative like, “AWESOME.” Then the conversation stops. I do suspect maybe friends want to follow the “AWESOME” with a “why?” Personally…
Happy weekend friends! Our week was full of doctor appointments, therapies and other shenanigans. Somehow we managed to almost complete our weekly to-do list. Sensorial: I had great ambitions this week for completing our constructive triangle work and adding some tasting bottles to the shelf, but we just ran out of time for those this…
