Montessori-Inspired Art: Bleeding Tissue Paper

November 21, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

We are getting fancy with our art trays this year! This is actually something I learned about from one of our Kids Night In boxes, and I knew it would make the perfect work for our art shelves. I cut up some bleeding tissue paper (this will NOT work with regular tissue paper) and put […]

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

October 31, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

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, […]

Montessori Language: Command Strips

October 24, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils

October 17, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Montessori Language: Labeling the Environment

October 10, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Lila has been steadily chugging along through the green series, but I could see that she was tiring of always learning new material and really wanted a chance to practice reading more. I put together this labeling the environment work, and she has been loving it! I walked around our homeschool preschool room and wrote […]