Nora has been on a measuring kick this month, and we’ve been having so much fun exploring measuring works that I just had to share what we’ve been up to! The first thing to mention is that we did not begin with actual measuring. We’ve been building up Nora’s measurement vocabulary for years through other […]

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My best printables are inspired by my own children, and this series of sentence strips is no different! My first daughter did not need them — she immediately took off reading once she knew the letter sounds and never looked back. My second daughter needed more encouragement and to gain self-confidence through shorter bits of […]

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Have you noticed that your child doesn’t respond to you the way you would like? Find yourself yelling and making threats to get your child to behave? Constantly playing referee to sibling arguments? Wishing you knew how to respond in a more peaceful way? Well, guess what? You can improve all of those situations with […]

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My own children mastered the bead bars long ago, but their beautiful colors and the feel of the beads in your hand make them one of our favorite Montessori materials. The main purpose is for counting and associating number with quantity. Since my girls already have the colors of the different bead bars memorized, I […]

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Have you noticed that there are key parts of your home that are inaccessible to your little ones? Find yourself constantly getting up to get someone a drink or make a snack? Constantly engaging in power struggles with young children who just want to do it “BY MYSELF!!!”? Well guess what? That can change. You […]

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