Loving & leading
There is a beautiful approach in Montessori referred to as the spiraling curriculum. A spiral curriculum starts with major themes and moves through the progression cyclically coming back to different blocks during a 3 year cycle. It starts with the very concrete exploration of our …
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 …
For our Year in Review this year, I am taking a slightly different approach. I have done a seasonal recap throughout the year of the Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring in our homeschool. Instead of rehashing all of that here again, I am going to …
It’s still spring but we are officially wrapping up our school year. I am not 100% sure when we will begin our Summer I term BUT I am VERY excited. I think we will take 2-3 weeks and then maybe start back the first or …
Update: I bumped Australia to September, took a week completely off in July and made more space for summer themed studies in August! If it is a strikethrough item listed, it is getting bumped as well. This summer has been so fun already! I honestly …
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 …
If you can’t tell… I am loving the six weeks detailed lesson plan approach! I do my yearly outline and track progress in my digital portfolio/tracker BUT this truly has been a game changer. I am almost a year in to doing this approach and …
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, …
Update: I felt I was slowing down the math sequence a bit. I reached out to the creator of my main album for 6-12 (overlaps with 3-6), Pilar Brewley and have added sessions (one time that you sit and do work with the child – …