Homeschooling Week in Review: Vol 2

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…

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Tour of Our Evolving Homeschool Classroom

So I was sharing some pictures of our homeschooling classroom (our sunporch), and I figured after spending so much time flipping through albums trying to find them, I really ought to share some in one post.   Our space is constantly evolving with materials and as my kids age and their needs change. But every…

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Quick Pumpkin Practical Life

If you’ve been following us on Instagram, you’d know we’ve been all pumpkins all the time. Here’s just a quick, easy-peezy practical life activity my kids went gaga over: pumpkin washing. All we did was set up a little bowl of cotton balls and a tiny dish of soapy water — and of course a…

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Monday Math Work: Dramatic Shopping Game for Addition Practice

In order to strengthen our math skills (and because dramatic play is fun), we played a shopping game! We used this fantastic resource from Teachers Pay Teachers. Alternatively, this addition game could be played with real props (cart, play food, register, the works), but for the sake of space this is just fine. Game Play …

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October Science Shelves

Here’s a quick peek at our science shelves for October. We’re still covering the first Great Lesson, and this is largely a space unit: Solar system, cosmic address, stars and constellations, phases of the moon and the seasons.

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Field Tripping Vol 1: the Solar Eclipse in NC

We started the school year off with a field trip to the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina! We visited family, went apple picking, saw the total eclipse of the sun, camped out, visited a hands-on children’s museum, got stuck in really bad traffic, and even exhaled! Quite the exciting weekend! Before we left I…

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Haba Palette of Pegs: Timberdoodle Review

We’re officially back to school this week! I promise more blog posts are coming! Today we’re looking at the very colorful, super-quality, wooden Palette of Pegs from Haba. They are stunning. Don’t you just want to play? My preschooler couldn’t wait. We combined them with a couple other lovely, wooden materials we have too (Grimm’s…

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July Montessori Practical Life Shelf Work

Happy almost Independence day from Florida, USA. We’re getting our red, white and blue on with some practical life activities this month.  Come check it out. Up first we have a fun sifting activity: the aim is to sift the sprinkles from the salt. Bead transfer work Pin punching stars and words Coloring the American…

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