Why Our Montessori Family Uses Screen Time

October 24, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

I have been getting a lot of questions about screen time lately (over on my Instagram account in particular), so I wanted to address the elephant in the room: We DO allow our children to have a limited amount of screen time. I have received SO many judgmental messages and comments about this — so […]

Montessori-Inspired Math Activities for Preschoolers — Number to Quantity Scavenger Hunt

October 18, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

Incorporating movement in educational activities — especially on a large scale — is a great way to make activities extra fun while stimulating more parts of the brain. One fun way to do this is to turn your typical Montessori-inspired work into a “scavenger hunt.” You can see how I’ve done this before with colors […]

Montessori-Inspired Sensorial Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers — Sorting by Rough and Smooth

October 11, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

We’ve had this Rough and Smooth Board out since N was a baby, so I decided to freshen it up by turning it into a sorting work. I gave L a basket and asked her to help me collect objects to sort into rough and smooth — she had a blast helping to set up […]

Montessori Asia Study — South Korean Landmark 3-Part Cards with Free Printable

October 4, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

As I mentioned before, we focused a large part of our Asia study on South Korea since the girls are half-Korean. I couldn’t find many South Korean Montessori materials already available in my internet searches, so I decided to make my own South Korean Landmark 3-Part Cards. When I first presented these cards, I used […]

Montessori Continent Studies: North America — Our Favorite Activities

September 27, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

After we learned about the continents all together, we decided to begin our individual continent studies with North America, since that is where we live. Here is a round-up of all the activities we used for our North America study. For each continent, we have a Montessori continent box full of small cultural objects, money, […]