Hey, hey it’s my birthday today. I have a gift for you — another installment in our Montessori Homeschooling series! Today I am so excited to share Bree’s Montessori space and story with you all. Bree (from Kindling Kids Montessori) DIYs are brilliant: a Perler bead pegboard, glittery checkerboard math, and a grammar analysis flowchart…
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…
Last week we introduced Montessori’s Second Great Lesson: the Coming of Life. The Great Lessons are a series of stories designed to spark the fire of curiosity surrounding science, history, communication, numbers, geography and more. These stories along with key lessons serve as a framework for further explorations throughout the year. Materials With the 2nd…
Cause I’m having a good time… Oh man I love me some Montessori materials. EVEN when they’re a little wonky. I ordered a set of grammar symbols off of Amazon (I know but Prime). Not only did they not arrive in two days (gasp), but they arrived damaged. You can’t really tell because it’s just…
Hot off the presses, I have got a freebie for you. I had a few people ask on Instagram for our Solar Eclipse 3-part cards, so I added a cover page, converted them to PDF and voila! Solar puts a ring on it. We will use these cards to sequence, match, practice reading and nomenclature,…
Confession time — No. 1: I am no seamstress. I don’t have much experience with a needle and thread. No 2: My husband stepped on a needle in the process of making this mat because someone, whom shall remain nameless, may or may not have left a needle on the floor. In the nameless person’s…
