Students, parents, and teachers are facing extraordinary circumstances as we turn to distance learning during the COVID-19 crisis. It’s tempting to just throw in the towel and admit defeat for the rest of this school year, but I’d like to challenge you to do more. Let’s try some new ways of learning together! Learning does […]

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I’ve been looking for a distraction lately — all of this COVID-19 social distancing and quarantine with no end in sight has been getting to me, and I needed to take my mind off things. So I asked my Instagram followers what theme I should use to make some new free printables, and I got […]

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When Lila’s school closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, I was pretty excited to get to have Lila joining us in our homeschool room each day. She is firmly in the second plane of development now, so I knew that our old routine would no longer work. She doesn’t need me to put together the […]

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One of the questions I am asked the most is how to teach kids to read. I wrote a lot about the Montessori method for teaching writing and reading a while ago, so today I wanted to share some of our favorite books for beginning readers! Most of those beginning reader books that say “Step […]

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When we first began this CoronaVirus quarantining and all the schools closed, I saw parents who were suddenly panicking and printing out worksheet after worksheet with the hope that something would be learned.  But did you know that there are other ways to learn?  I saw this on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, and […]

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