April 24, 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.
I get tons of questions over on Instagram about how I get the girls involved with chores around the house, and the answer is quite simple: I invite them! I call them “chores” here because that’s what they are to us, but to a young child, they are adventures and opportunities, fun just waiting to […]
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April 17, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.
Maria Montessori wrote a great deal about the important link between movement and learning, but I have always taken that to mean mostly fine motor movement and muscle memory with the use of academic materials. Nora, my sweet littlest one, has challenged me yet again — because she is a MOVER. A constantly moving/dancing/swaying/twirling whirlwind […]
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April 11, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.
When I first learned that Renae of Every Star is Different was putting together a bunch of printables focusing on the Montessori practical life concept of “care of self,” I admit that I had no idea how she was going to do it. That is a very hands-on part of the Montessori curriculum, and I […]
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April 3, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.
After taking a close look at dinosaur fossils and the clues they left us, we dove into the Mesozoic era with a study of dinosaurs by type and age. I made a timeline to scale to show the lengths of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous time periods, which you can download for free HERE. On […]
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