Living the Montessori life as a mom with two young children
Years ago, my co-teacher came up with this work while browsing through a dollar store. It met all of the qualifications for a toddler classroom — interesting materials, promoting fine motor skills, and most important on a classroom budget, cheap! I bought these materials months ago and was waiting for the right moment to introduce […]
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L has been enjoying telling us that she’s 1 when we ask how old she is for the past couple of months, so I decided it was time to bring in some numbers! The first step in teaching numbers is simple exposure. We have been counting things for a long time — each time we […]
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In & Out works are favorites in our house. L quickly mastered the most recent one I put together, with the coffee stirrers in the colander, so I decided to make one that is a little more challenging. I got a set of pipe cleaners and a parmesan cheese shaker from the dollar store and […]
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L has been obsessed with trying to open containers for a while now. At first, I was hesitant to put a work like this together, because there are many things I don’t want her to be able to open — for my own sanity. But I figured that she’s old enough now to handle the contents […]
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Most of L’s works are in our living room, so I’m trying to branch out and place things in other parts of the house. When I was in the classroom, I came up with a quick hanging work when I found some hooks that we were just going to throw away. I decided to recreate […]
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