As a Montessori educator (and a recovering perfectionist), I’ve noticed some major problems with the way public elementary schools in the United States operate… and when I shared them once in my Instagram stories, I was asked to elaborate.  So here we are! I will preface my opinions with these facts:  I have a daughter […]

This seems like a super niche blog post topic, right? But actually, when your child was a Montessori student for her preschool years and then enters public school, she’s already going to be ahead academically. Montessori education simply introduces certain concepts much earlier than mainstream preschools do, so it’s not uncommon for a Montessori child […]

My second plane children had so much fun leading a Wings of Fire Book Club last summer, and this year they decided to do it again with the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The girls looked through the book and decided to split it into 9 meetings of 2 chapters […]

My Printable Pals asked for some printable materials inspired by the Science of Reading, so I got to work putting together a bunch of phonological and phonemic awareness activities! This Montessori phonological awareness activity works on blending two small words to make a bigger word. When you’re first presenting this work, only choose a few […]

As a Montessori teacher/homeschooler, there’s a lot of material preparation that goes into lesson prep. When I was teaching myself, I would make anything that didn’t require too much research — matching cards, 3-part cards, etc.  If I wanted things that had actual facts on them, I would buy them — because teaching is hard […]