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…
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…
Looking for a cool game to test your spatial and fine motor skill — and steady hands? We received Ice Tumble in exchange for our honest review, and honestly we loved this game. We played this together as a family at least a dozen times since the box arrived. The gameplay is simple to understand,…
Colorku, the color Sudoku puzzle, is great in theory. Terrible in execution. Timberdoodle sends us a ton of great items to review, and we’ve loved nearly everything, but this was a total miss for our family. My candid review follows. If you’ve played Sudoku, where numbers 1-9 must be contained in each row, column and…
I’ve got globes coming out of my ears. Well not really. Could you imagine? Sometimes I can get a big head, but not 12-inch-globes-out-of-her-ear-holes big. Why do we have more than one globe? I have spent a lot of time scouting the web for the perfect globes — or at least decent quality ones that…
Back a couple of years ago, I posted a picture on Instagram of a basket with Christmas books inside. Several people messaged me to ask how our “Christmas basket” functioned. This question left me perplexed. In short, if we wanted to read a Christmas book, we’d get one; then we’d read it. That was the…
