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, […]

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-Inspired Pumpkin Activities

October 1, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ll admit it: I have a tiny bit of a pumpkin obsession. Not in a “basic” way (whatever that means…) — I’m actually not a fan of pumpkin spice anything. But when it comes to using them in the classroom, I’m obsessed! Every year I find new ways to use pumpkins to teach, so I […]

Montessori Botany Study: Learning About Leaves

September 26, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

After learning about plants in general, we actually began with a tree study — but since it’s the perfect season to learn about leaves and why they change color, I’ll share that part next! We began by looking at the different parts of a leaf using these 3-part cards. As we usually do with this […]