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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]
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]
My guess is that you have a few plastic eggs and egg cartons in your home right now. All you need now for this number matching activity are numbers. We used colorful button numbers from Joann Fabrics & Crafts. You want enough numbers to pair a number in egg with a number in the cup [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]
I updated our Montessori shelves a bit for March. There is a green theme a la St. Patrick’s Day. We continue to work on fine motor skills with pipe cleaners and beading. This work is easy & inexpensive. All you need are pony beads and pipecleaners. My 2 year old loves this work. With my [Read On]
A friend of mine emailed me last night to ask for some guidance as her lovely 2.5 year old began the journey to reading at rapid pace. After I wrote the email to her, I thought I should share the Language 101 tips a la Montessori’s Approach to Language with you. Enjoy! {Image courtesy of [Read On]
