Loving & leading
I am so excited about my latest project- a Montessori Continent Box Exchange! My hope is to connect Montessorians from around the world share different cultures in a tangible way. Short of traveling to each area, this is the best way to experience the culture …
This was another fun unit study that we did as a part of our larger summer unit study this summer. Most of our shelf work was from Green Urban Creative’s Summer Collection. We got to go on a day trip to a Trout Hatchery to …
We did a Strawberry Mini Unit as a part of our Summer Unit this year. It was so cute and fun! We had hoped to pick strawberries but I didn’t realize this is more ideal for May in our area. We missed that this year …
This unit grew into a month long unit… part of this is because I planned one last year that we didn’t fully get into and part of this is it was just so fun! We did a lot this unit and genuinely loved birding, nature …
Initially I had planned to do a few little Valentine themed works but I found so many cute ideas that we had a full blown mini unit on our hands! We have had fun this week. We had Valentine themed works for math, writing, sewing, …
This is a part of our My Body Unit series that we are doing throughout the rest of this year and maybe into next year. I am going to sprinkle it in and just follow the child. Since this month is National Children’s Dental Health …
As a part of our Antarctica Continent Study we learned about penguins (along with other animals). This was VERY much of interest to the girls so it grew into its own unit. They had so much fun acting like penguins, reading about penguins, watching penguins… …
This is our second continent study of the year. We are loving exploring our world together. In this one we grabbed the Waseca Biome 3-Part Cards and explored different aspects of the continent itself. Our daughters were very into penguins and we did a whole …
This mini unit is such an important part of any homeschool curriculum. It is so important to have conversations around racism and diversity early with your children. This holiday snuck up on me last year but I am better at working holidays into our cultural …
We have had so much fun diving more into the geography sequence this year. Prior to this year, much of our cultural exploration has been completely child-led. We are leaning into balancing child-led and moving through the progression for year 2&3 of Montessori Primary to …