Loving & leading
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 – …
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 …
I have had a few people ask how I have chosen what to skip, DIY, or buy for Montessori Homeschooling. I stepped back and gave it some thought. For our home we have a budget we need to stay in, most things we need we …
I’ve been taking a bit of a deep dive in the Montessori Math Progression lately. In our homeschool preschool, we introduced the Montessori Math Materials this fall and my daughter has really dove into her number work here lately. I am also DIY’ing the complete …
Update: I shifted quite a bit so I updated this post on the 21st of January. My last six weeks detailed lesson plan was for September and part of October. I did a little look ahead at what was coming for November & December and …
I have talked about our rhythm a bit in a few posts but I have not done a post about what we actually do all day. Each day is a little different but our rhythm is the same. We hold space for the morning work …
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 …
We are knee deep in our North America Unit over here. It turned out to be longer than I originally planned. There are way too many fun things to do. We ended up adding a mini unit to study turkeys as a part of it …
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 …