Today in the ongoing insider series, I have a terrific interview with Meredith who homeschools her three boys with the Montessori method. Meredith describes her passionate journey to find the best fit for her kids’ education. Plus I learn just how she’s been able to have so many amazing destination lessons! I absolutely love Meredith’s…
Our insider series about Montessori in the home environment is wrapping up with only a post or two left. But don’t worry, I have such a fantastic post today! I’m excited to share an interview with Kylie of How We Montessori. I have been a longtime reader of Kylie’s fabulous blog happily absorbing her beautiful…
“As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.” –Maria Montessori My goal for this series has been to showcase how Montessori is right for…
We continue our Montessori at home series this week with Leila. In fact, Leila is the reason I decided to start this series. We got to talking about how much pushback Montessori homeschoolers get just for trying to offer their kids the best education at home possible. She shared with me how a larger Montessori…
My nine-year-old painted a gorgeous Monet reproduction this morning. Can you tell how she was beaming with pride? Beautiful! Check out this excellent Paint-by-Number kit we received from Timberdoodle Co to review. The set includes everything you need and has easy to follow instructions my kid had no problem whatsoever figuring out on her own….
If you were Italian, you might say to someone asking to borrow a possession, “Si chiama Pietro e torna indietro” or “Its name is Peter and it comes back.” Reading that in English is for sure a head scratcher. But in Italian it’s a clever play on rhyming words and commonly known idiom. My oldest…
Happy Memorial Day. Today is also my two-year-old little stinkers birthday. Lots of cake and watermelon to be had today. Of course today I have another guest post and inside look at an awesome homeschooling family! Be sure to check out the other interviews in our series so far. Meet Elisabeth, of Mchomeschool, she’s essentially…
I recently described this blog to someone as focused on Montessori, homeschooling and special needs. I realized though that I rarely give a lot of background on the unique challenges we’re up against some days, ie the “special needs” components (though I know I have from time to time mentioned them). Consider this post a…
Hey, hey it’s my birthday today. I have a gift for you — another installment in our Montessori Homeschooling series! Today I am so excited to share Bree’s Montessori space and story with you all. Bree (from Kindling Kids Montessori) DIYs are brilliant: a Perler bead pegboard, glittery checkerboard math, and a grammar analysis flowchart…
Hope everyone had a lovely Mother’s Day yesterday — for those who celebrated it this past weekend anyway. I can’t believe a week had already zoomed by, and it’s time for the second installment in our interview series about Montessori Homeschooling. Allow me to introduce you to Kristy @loveschoolathome on Instagram. If you do not…
