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Every month I like to freshen up our Montessori work shelves. Here are a few new trays I’ve added for my boys (2.5 and 4 years old). As you will notice these baskets and trays don’t require much money to put together. Hopefully the work is accessible to you so that you can easily integrate [Read On]
Here are the steps I took to help my child learn about the parts of a flower: Start with a book: Introduce any life science work, especially a new one, with a book that will hook the child. My Montessori instructor introduced me to Susan Jeffers’ Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, a fabulous book to introduce [Read On]
With every new month comes new inspiration. I like to rotate work out of my boys Montessori room fairly often. Here are a few of the new materials in their learning area. The idea for this tray actually came from my 3.5 year old. We had a few nature items around his play area. I [Read On]
I wish Earth Day could be Every Day. Why can’t it be? I declare it. Today we went screen free for the first time in a long while. We don’t watch tv but we rely on the iPad and “shows” via digital media. We started the day with a circle time reviewing the Earth as [Read On]
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 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]
