Living the Montessori life as a mom with two young children
One of our favorite things to do outside is to point out butterflies! L has been interested in them ever since we visited the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls last summer, so I knew this was something we should begin to study more formally once we started homeschool preschool. I ordered a butterfly kit so we […]
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Learning about outer space is pretty abstract for toddlers and preschoolers. While we were learning about our solar system, I knew I needed to find a way to bring this to life for L. One day, I asked her to show me how to spin on her axis like a planet. She spun around in […]
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I always hated doing any kind of messy painting works in the classroom, but I must admit that it’s much more manageable at home with only two children! Our art shelves were getting a little tired and under-used, so I decided to freshen it up with some stencil painting. I found some great animal stencils […]
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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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When I decided back in February that I was going to do homeschool preschool for L instead of sending her to a Montessori school, she was a little disappointed at first — mostly [I think] because she wanted to wear a backpack. When I told her that we would do all of the things she […]
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