Oh dear. Let’s just get this out of the way. Here are our plans for the past week as taken from the last week in review blog post: I give myself an F as in Failed. F minus. Yes we were busy this week, but no we didn’t succeed with that list. Certainly no field…
Week three of our new series brings us to Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum. We stayed busy as always with our usual Montessori workload. I’m currently reading Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood by Paula Polk Lillard. This book is a great overview of the whole Montessori pedagogy, and I’ve…
Happy weekend friends! Our week was full of doctor appointments, therapies and other shenanigans. Somehow we managed to almost complete our weekly to-do list. Sensorial: I had great ambitions this week for completing our constructive triangle work and adding some tasting bottles to the shelf, but we just ran out of time for those this…
Welcome to hopefully my first of many installments of our week in review. For an online portfolio blog I realize I do an awful job of actually documenting what we do when. My hope is to hold myself accountable each Friday to write more about what we worked on that week. I also want to…
So I was sharing some pictures of our homeschooling classroom (our sunporch), and I figured after spending so much time flipping through albums trying to find them, I really ought to share some in one post. Our space is constantly evolving with materials and as my kids age and their needs change. But every…
Because I am insane, but mostly because there is just so much cultural work I want to cover, I have made a monthly lesson plan that extends to a year from now. It covers a lot of ground — a heck of a lot of information quickly. So instead of expecting mastery this year, I will…
Pin It Maps are seriously cool. We ordered the Land and Water forms set for my beginner readers, ages 6 and 8; my goodness, the pin map has quickly become a favorite activity. There is some assembly involved — but there’s no need to be intimidated. I roped in my sweet hubby to help me tape the…
