Great Lessons Montessori Co-Op
We started a small Montessori Great Lessons co-op with friends this school year. In a Montessori elementary classroom, these are presented to the group as a jumping off place for all kinds of science explorations. Because the lower elementary plane is based on cooperative work, it’s great to be able to share our lessons together! Here’s…
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…
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 …
The Best Wooden Calendars
We have fallen in love with a couple of gorgeous, wooden calendars. First is the traditional, wooden perpetual calendar that comes from Etsy shop FromJennifer. We have purchased a few items from them so far and have been extremely pleased with the quality! Definitely support this small family business. Not only is this calendar completely…
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…
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…
Montessori 3-part cards: 2017 Solar Eclipse: Freebie
Hot off the presses, I have got a freebie for you. I had a few people ask on Instagram for our Solar Eclipse 3-part cards, so I added a cover page, converted them to PDF and voila! Solar puts a ring on it. We will use these cards to sequence, match, practice reading and nomenclature,…
Tegu: Pros and Cons + How to for the Montessori Homeschool
With my girls off to theatre camp for two weeks, I am checking back in to review Tegu from Timberdoodle. Do you know about Timberdoodle? We’ve been fans of their complete curriculum packages for a couple years now. They have really interesting hands-on materials for the younger set plus great creative work for the older…
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…
How to Make a Solar System Mat
Confession time — No. 1: I am no seamstress. I don’t have much experience with a needle and thread. No 2: My husband stepped on a needle in the process of making this mat because someone, whom shall remain nameless, may or may not have left a needle on the floor. In the nameless person’s…