Thanksgiving Traditions: Making a Thankfulness Tree [with free printable thankfulness leaf prompts]

This is the third year now that we have decided to grow a Thankfulness Tree during the month of November, and this year I decided to tweak it a bit.  In the past, we’ve had a tree with blank leaves that we could write whatever we wanted on — but after the first few days, […]

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Kids Night In Box Giveaway!

I’m pretty sure I say this every month, but this month’s Kids Night In box was our favorite one yet!!!  The theme of this box was “Spooktacular Night,” and it was basically our own private Halloween party in a box.  We ALL had a blast! We began as usual by preparing our meal together using […]

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Montessori Language: Command Strips

Lila loves reading, but sometimes she is intimidated by long sentences in books to the point that she’ll just quit.  I wanted to help her practice her reading skills in a fun manner, so I set up this command strips box for her! I cut strips of paper and wrote simple 1-3 word commands on […]

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Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils

We dove into our new Dinosaur study in September and will be learning everything we can about the Mesozoic Era through mid-January!  I will eventually be sharing our entire study on here [of course!], but first I need to finish sharing our botany study.  So I’ll just share this fun work the girls and I […]

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Montessori Language: Labeling the Environment

Lila has been steadily chugging along through the green series, but I could see that she was tiring of always learning new material and really wanted a chance to practice reading more.  I put together this labeling the environment work, and she has been loving it! I walked around our homeschool preschool room and wrote […]

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