The Prepared Environment for outdoor Spaces : Montessori Ideas for Your Backyard

June 30, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Montessori is not restricted to your indoor spaces — there is a lot that can be done in the great outdoors! Just as in your indoor spaces, you can prepare your outside environment by creating what I call “yes” spaces. These are spaces that your children are allowed — actually, encouraged — to explore freely. […]

Montessori Great Lessons Summer Camp — Intro + The First Great Lesson

June 23, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

Since this is our last summer of homeschooling, I decided to go out with a BIG BANG [*wink wink*] — a Great Lessons Summer Camp! I put together 9 weeks of summer fun studying the 5 Montessori Great Lessons, and we’re loving it so far. I didn’t make any of these materials myself — just […]

FREE Class for Fostering Creativity in Children

June 8, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

Last year I did something that completely changed the trajectory of how I viewed creativity with my children. …I STOPPED listening to the wrong people. Society has taught us to believe that the key to “creativity just happens”. …Like a spark of genius. …And that those who are not naturally talented…don’t harness the potential for […]

DIY Bird’s Eye View Pre-Mapping Work from our Montessori Homeschool Preschool

June 2, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

We’ve been doing this work for a few years now, and it’s always a hit! While I’ve posted about it several times on Instagram, I recently realized that I never wrote up DIY instructions for it. So here we go! [Step-by-step directions at the bottom of this post.] We call this bird’s eye view pre-mapping […]