Posted in JBug, language arts, living math, montessori on Mar 20th, 2010 17 Comments »
I’ve had quite a few emails and such lately asking me about JBug and her Montessori work. Since I have been posting more about other things we’ve been up to lately, is Montessori still something we do? You bet it is!!! It’s just that we have had so many more interesting and photogenic things going [...]
Posted in JBug, living math, montessori on Nov 2nd, 2009 15 Comments »
JBug was all over this activity last week. I dug into our Asia continent box and put together a tray to reinforce the concepts of place value and exchanging, which JBug still struggles with from time to time. The enameled dragon tray contains a small bowl of rice grains, a pair of chopsticks, some Chinese [...]
Posted in montessori on Oct 25th, 2009 4 Comments »
Finally I have a chance to post another tray for Halloween. Nothing too original here, just a patterning exercise. I had a bunch of Halloween-themed erasers and I arranged them on my flatbed scanner in lines in various patterns (landscape orientation), leaving open space on one end. Then I simply printed them on cardstock and [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori on Oct 21st, 2009 9 Comments »
Sorry I have not had time to post about the Haloween stuff like I promised. We’ve been so busy here, with all of the usual, but mostly with Superboy’s project for marine Biology (more about that later).I honestly don’t know if I will get around to one big post about Halloween Montessori activities, probably just [...]
Posted in montessori, pre-school on Oct 16th, 2009 16 Comments »
Yes, I am the first to admit that Montessori unschooling is an odd combination. Just think of the Montessori shelves and trays as a kind of strewing and it kinda-sorta works. Whatever. It works for us. Anyway, I am putting out a bunch of Halloween-themed stuff for next week (post about that soon), so I [...]
Posted in montessori, pre-school on Sep 17th, 2009 8 Comments »
Who knew you could learn so much just by preparing a simple snack for your family? Maria Montessori, that’s who. I guess that’s why it is a tradition in Montessori schools for children to prepare snacks for themselves and others. This week JackJack very much enjoyed preparing some peanut-butter-and-banana crackers for our mid-morning snack. Here [...]
Posted in living math, montessori, Random Ramblings on Sep 15th, 2009 3 Comments »
It’s good to have powerful friends… because sometimes a girl just needs a little help with her math, you know?
Posted in montessori, pre-school on Sep 6th, 2009 6 Comments »
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so the saying goes. I took this picture of JackJack a few days ago. (JackJack age ~4) He was quietly and methodically putting tiny apple pegs into little holes all over a tree. Taking them off again. Happy and content in his own little [...]
Posted in language arts, montessori on Jun 28th, 2009 10 Comments »
This has been a big project for me, but I finally got my home-made version of the Montessori grammar box materials done. Whew! I decided that rather than the traditional series of 8 individual boxes to present each of the parts of speech, I only really need the last box (or at least something similar [...]
Posted in language arts, montessori on Jun 25th, 2009 8 Comments »
Lately I have been thinking JBug is about ready to begin exploring some of the Montessori grammar materials. I can’t afford to purchase them ($$$), so I am making my own versions. I’ve been working on the grammar box materials and I am almost ready to share them, but in the mean time I want [...]
