We finished our dinosaur unit study a few months ago, and I just realized that I never put it all together in one place!  Here’s a round-up of our entire dinosaur unit study.  Click on each picture to go to that blog post!   Advertisements

If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you may have noticed that Lila has been interested in learning cursive lately.  We began our letter learning with print letters — AMI-trained teachers usually begin with cursive letters, but I am AMS-trained and we teach print first because those are the letters seen most often in books/on […]

An Instagram follower asked for a list of our favorite Montessori materials to use at home, so I put together this list of Montessori-friendly products to use at home with young infants, mobile infants/young toddlers, and toddlers/preschoolers.  These are products that we use in our home OR that I would totally use the next time […]

One of the questions I am asked most frequently is how I plan our unit studies for our Montessori homeschool preschool!  I go about it differently than most, as I prefer long, drawn-out unit studies that last a couple of months [at least!].  That gives us an opportunity to really dive in deep with each […]

If you’ve ever been around a Montessori family or one who is invested in positive parenting techniques, you may have noticed something — the way they speak to their children is quite different from the way you normally hear adults and children interacting.  In Montessori training, we learned several key things to keep in mind […]