Living the Montessori life as a mom with two young children
Practical Life works are known for the repetition of motion needed to complete the activity, and that’s one of the huge draws for toddlers. I’ll be honest — I like that repetition too. This is one of the works that both girls love, although N spends way more time with it, and it’s one that […]
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Maria Montessori used her understanding of child development to design a philosophy for teaching math to the young child. Children are exposed to numbers and math in their daily lives, as they see numbers on calendars, clocks, and other daily objects, or hear their parents discussing money or how many of something exists. In the […]
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L has become more and more interested in numbers lately, so I am taking full advantage and redoing a lot of our math works! She is pretty good with the Sandpaper Numbers 1-5, so I made this One-to-One Correspondence work to show the correlation between the written number and the quantity. This is super easy […]
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Did you know Pi Day is March 14th (3/14)? Normal people might not know that… but when your husband is a former Physics major/current engineer, you keep that date on your calendar. And you might as well add it to yours — everyone needs a good excuse to eat pie! Although pi is a rather […]
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L’s newfound interest in the math section is keeping me on my toes! I put together this quick work to explore “more” and “less” using dollar store objects — you can really use anything as long as you have enough of the same objects. I placed some dinosaur erasers in a bin on L’s math […]
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