Thanksgiving Traditions: Making a Thankfulness Tree [with free printable thankfulness leaf prompts]

This is the third year now that we have decided to grow a Thankfulness Tree during the month of November, and this year I decided to tweak it a bit.  In the past, we’ve had a tree with blank leaves that we could write whatever we wanted on — but after the first few days, […]

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Montessori Language: Command Strips

Lila loves reading, but sometimes she is intimidated by long sentences in books to the point that she’ll just quit.  I wanted to help her practice her reading skills in a fun manner, so I set up this command strips box for her! I cut strips of paper and wrote simple 1-3 word commands on […]

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Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils

We dove into our new Dinosaur study in September and will be learning everything we can about the Mesozoic Era through mid-January!  I will eventually be sharing our entire study on here [of course!], but first I need to finish sharing our botany study.  So I’ll just share this fun work the girls and I […]

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Kids Night In Box Review & Coupon Code!

Our first Kids Night In last month was pretty fun, but this one was AMAZING!  The theme of this month’s box was Common Bonds, and it was all about kids from all over the world and what we have in common.  It just so happened to be the International Day of Peace when that box […]

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Montessori-Inspired Pumpkin Activities

I’ll admit it:  I have a tiny bit of a pumpkin obsession.  Not in a “basic” way (whatever that means…) — I’m actually not a fan of pumpkin spice anything.  But when it comes to using them in the classroom, I’m obsessed! Every year I find new ways to use pumpkins to teach, so I […]

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