We’re in uncharted territory on unstable ground right now, and I’m trying to build us a lovely homeschool home — yet here’s a wilderness and wild beasts both native and scary scratching at the door. What I’m saying is I have been battling an autoimmune disease balancing meds that help but make me weak and…
We are about to finally hit the ground running this homeschool year. Getting a late start I know, but I’ve been having some health issues that I’m thankfully about to undergo infusion treatments for (pending insurance approval any day now). So fingers crossed and prayers requested for all that. As for our Great Lesson science…
Elements are the ingredients that make up everything. Do you know where those elements come from? Explaining a concept like nuclear fusion and the creation of all the ingredients of the cosmos might sound a little daunting for a homeschool parent (let alone for the elementary child). However I’m here to tell you it’s not…
Speaking of “painting windows” in my last post… I always forget to share activities we do to the blog. So here’s one of the activities we did at the end of January for the Second Great Lesson (Coming of Life). I keep reading about the “Mural of Life” used in Montessori classrooms. Aside from the…
Life’s gotten crazy lately; I know I don’t have to tell you that. With everyone stuck at home lately corona-quarantining, how about we take a virtual field trip together? Recently, we were very privileged to meet a local artist who keeps sheep for wool and weaves beautiful textiles. What a fantastic opportunity to learn about…
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…
In science we are currently talking about the timeline of life and all that goes along with the second great lesson. In the past we’ve used the traditional Montessori Clock of Eras in printed form. I struggle with it though because technically some of the “eras” are really “eons” now. I want our science work…
I know it’s been quiet around here. In the real world, we’ve been spending a lot of time on science, and as much time as we can outside, as the temperatures start to creep up. Afternoons are in the 80s. The kids have been doing a lot of Teaching Textbooks for math lately, and there…
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…
