Timberdoodle is a homeschool curriculum company we love very much. Sometimes they give us products to review, and this is one of them. All reviews are 100% my opinion and completely honest! I love connecting the dots between Montessori materials and other mainstream curriculums. Read on to see how the Kumon Sticker Science book relates to…
I have a friend who doesn’t seem to take our homeschool seriously. When I speak of prepping the classroom or practicing presentations, or when I say we are too busy for playdates, I often get the impression that she thinks we’re just “playing school.” After all, we named our homeschool, have uniforms, our classroom is…
Where to even begin with this busy week? Goodbye April –> Hello May! April 29th – May 5th On Sunday both our girls made their first holy communions. *swoon* Misc Fun: Yesterday, we took a beach trip and had a visit with good friends in Pensacola. There was a Crawfish Festival going on, and we spent…
Alright, alright, alright… let’s get right down to business. In exciting family news, the girls make their first holy communion tomorrow, the kids’ violin recital is in a week, my sister got ENGAGED today (I hope I’m allowed to proclaim that Megs because we are EXCITED), and as always we continue truckin’ along with school….
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…
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…
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…
