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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 – …
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 not yet started the Montessori 3-6 Math Materials in our home but we LOVE counting so I have included DIY Montessori Cards and Counters on the shelf on and off. The counters are popular (for a bit!) but not the cards. We are …