I had a few requests to see inside our animal classification boxes since we recently revisited them for our “2nd Great Lesson” science shelves. I made these boxes a while back to help drive home the key characteristics of animal classes. We have a box for mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and one general invertebrates…
If you are looking for high-quality language cards, here is a great resource — Stages Learning Materials asked me to review some of their Language builder sets. We have been using these cards in all sorts of homeschool activities lately; they are an excellent addition to our science and language work. The cards are great quality,…
Rocked the past two weeks like a homeschool ninja.
Sharing all the contents of our animal classification boxes (in the Montessori continent box style) one by one. Up first is our bird box. It’s been so much fun putting these together — almost as much fun as watching the kids explore each animal hands-on. Animal classification cards freebie here. 🙂 We read the books…
What happened this week? It’s always a blur; I need to rely on my phone pics, but it’s somewhat challenging to take good photos with a three-month-old. Nevertheless… I persisted in snagging a few. Math We did mostly math on Monday and Tuesday. Everyone did bead chains. Then we were burnt out on math and…
I recently had a lighting bolt of an idea: I made animal classification boxes (a la Montessori continent boxes). I wanted something my kids could touch and sort through to understand what made each animal class distinct. I needed some type of control to explain the key points. After looking all over, I couldn’t find…
