Loving & leading
You guys. This year I promised myself I would take a longer break after the end of our school year and while I did that… I didn’t get everything prepped ahead of time like I wanted. I am back to schooling and prepping. Still planning …
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 …
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 past summer I wrote in detail about our Language Sequence for Early Reading and Writing. It was very heavy on the reading side and very light on the writing side. Honestly, other than sandpaper letters and the moveable alphabet, there is no overlap in …
I presented the metal insets just after the sandpaper letters to Little Miss. She was VERY ready to take the next step in learning to write. Prior to this, there is no formal training on writing. In Montessori we begin by preparing the hand to …
You guys. We are fully immersed in the sandpaper letters over here and I am SO glad we waited until further into the sound games progression before introducing them. Little Miss is fully ready whereas if we had just mastered the initial sound in a …
We have had such a fun fall season. The month of October we did quite a bit with our pumpkin theme. We actually started it the same day we did pumpkins at Forest School so that was a fun coincidence. At home we did a …
This was such a fun little unit. We decided to take the girls camping in the backyard this year! We have never been camping as a family (this was my first time ever too!) and Little Miss has been asking for a while so we …
Sound games are a part of the Pre-Reading activities that start the Early Writing and Reading Sequence in Montessori. They lay the ground work for reading and creating with words by working with what children already know (spoken language) and playing with the sounds that …