Living the Montessori life as a mom with two young children
When I was a Montessori toddler teacher, I would sometimes visit the older classrooms to get ideas for new works for some of my more advanced toddlers. This one was always in use and looked so inviting, so I was excited to create it for L this summer. I put a large push pin and a small […]
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One of the classic Montessori materials is the knobbed cylinders [sometimes called cylinder blocks]. They can be quite expensive to buy, but I found this mini set for a reasonable price and snatched them up. L has mastered each knobbed cylinder set individually [for instructions on how to present them, look here], so I knew […]
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Now that L has mastered the most concrete materials on our language shelf, it’s time to move on to the abstract. Most young children are fascinated by animals, so I created this concept matching activity for L to match the animals to where they spend the most time — the way I word it is […]
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L is getting old enough that her afternoon nap time is slowly but surely dwindling in length — and when we’re in a hotel or somewhere new, she won’t nap at all. Nap time is sacred in our house, because my kids are much more agreeable when they have time to rest during the day […]
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I don’t know about your kids, but mine LOVE water play. We spent a lot of time playing in water sensory bins outside this summer, and one of the household objects I put in it was a dish sponge. It was by far L’s favorite object to play with in the water bin, but I couldn’t […]
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