If you’re looking for an engaging, beautifully-illustrated book to read with your preschooler, look no further than Wimmelbooks. The vivid and detailed pictures of this German series hold stories just waiting to be discovered by little ones. I received My Big Wimmelbook: Firetrucks from Timberdoodle in exchange for this review. We love it so much,…
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…
Packing up my shelves this week as we transition from our units on geological eras and prehistoric life towards ancient civilization. I wanted to share some books before they go back on our “library shelf” (which currently is just an avalanche of books waiting to happen. Organization fairy, please come rescue me from my good…
“Human consciousness comes into the world as a flaming ball of imagination.” –Dr Maria Montessori After the “Coming of Life” great lesson follows the “Coming of Humans” story. We have been studying the different eons and eras, and we’ve studied fundamental needs of humans by going camping and visiting a wool farm; here’s some of…
Tour of our science shelves here I posted a tour of our science shelves for the 2nd Great lesson on IGTV today. I had some requests for our materials used, so I have the sources here. Some are affiliate links (at no cost to you). Hope this is helpful! Montessori Services: Timeline of Life. I…
Florida requirements for homeschooling aren’t super stringent. We’re required to maintain our portfolio of activities with samples of work and to keep book lists — among a few other procedural requirements (like notifying the superintendent’s office). Most fellow homeschool moms I know hang on to their book store and / or library receipts as records…
