The girls performed in a Christmas concert with their homeschool string orchestra this week. They’ve been practicing a ton; we’re so proud! The first two clips below have both girls playing violin, and the third video is the extra piece that just Josie’s group learned. We are so blessed to participate in such a wonderful…
‘Tis the season to read umpteen posts in mom forums that begin, “We don’t do the Santa thing…” and blogs across the world will twist together the words Santa with deception and lies. On the opposite hand, we have all those angry folks talking about robbing kids of magic. If one thing is for certain…
We logged a lot of hours homeschooling this week. We normally take December completely off for a breather. However November had a lot of off days, so I decided to homeschool on. The beauty of homeschooling is you can take a break when you need to and come back to it when you’re ready to…
After seeing a lot of beautiful seasonal traditions on Instagram, I decided I wanted to try making a spiral with my kids this year. This activity leans more Waldorf-y than Montessori, but an Advent spiral can be a beautiful, hands-on and concrete manner of marking the days until Christmas. We made a simple salt dough,…
Heads up: there are a couple Amazon Influencer affiliate links (at no cost to you) for our Christmas book list in this post. 🙂 Tis the season to get ready for the reason for the season. My kids are really into tongue twisters right now; I should give them that to say 10 times fast….
Happy 9th Day of Christmas! We still have our tree up and Christmas works on our shelves, and before the season is over, I wanted to share this sweet, evergreen work I found on Etsy from the shop Knotty Baby Boutique. It’s been a favorite as far as buttoning goes. There’s also an element of matching….
One of the areas of learning in Montessori education is cultural work. While there are continent boxes and pin maps to work with, what’s really fun as Montessori-at-home-schoolers is hitting the road for a little real life exploration. We are very fortunate as Florida natives to have Walt Disney World in our backyard, so to…
