Dedicated to Developing the Whole Child
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~ Henry David Thoreau With the coming of spring, we’ve been discussing botany for a few months now. This leaf activity is a perfect segue and compliment to botany [Read On]
My husband and I were completing a stellar “date night” with a post dinner trip to Home Depot. I couldn’t resist picking up some paint chips in beautiful earth tones. I knew we could do something with these beauties. And we did. We made an earth. I cut my paint samples into random strips. I [Read On]
“Let us give the child a vision of the whole universe. . . for all things are part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.” ~ Dr. Maria Montessori This post highlights a fun and easy way to open your child’s eyes to the world. Plus there is [Read On]
Preschoolers love to dance! In my house, they also love math because we play the Math Dance Game. Math can be fun! This game helps children visualize real value and equations while practicing counting and number recognition. If you have a preschooler who likes to dance, get them excited about math with this simple game. [Read On]
My Zoology Montessori instructor explained that when introducing Vertebrates and Invertebrates to preschoolers that using simple descriptive words and phrases (along with “real” objects like Safari Toobs) to concretely connect the child with organisms is the best approach. We have to be careful not to generalize. For example, not all birds fly. The Montessori Life [Read On]
To pay a little tribute to this wonderful blog and extend an obsession of my son lately, I thought we’d explore CARROTS today! Cooking with Kids is such a wonderful learning activity. A few days ago my 2 year-old son spotted this bunch of carrots with their tops still on and just had to have [Read On]
