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 [...]
Posted in JBug, montessori on May 24th, 2009 10 Comments »
Last week JBug was using her flower cards to learn the names of some common garden flowers. And then referring to them to make her own little flower book: She does this kind of thing a lot. Do your kids do this? Make “little books” out of everything? And if so, then what do you [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., living math, montessori on Nov 11th, 2008 19 Comments »
I promised I’d post some more ideas today, so here are a few. I am running a little behind (we have been busy with all this fun stuff!!!) but I’ll have the rest up tomorrow, hopefully. These are pretty simple today. Just a few ideas I gathered from things I’ve seen around the internets: This [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori on Nov 10th, 2008 36 Comments »
Are your well-layed out shelves collecting dust? Are cobwebs growing on your manipulatives for lack of, well…manipulation? Are you tempted to describe your school as “Montes-snore-i” ??? Time for a shake-up, I say! In an effort to fight the ho-hums around here, this morning I temporarily stashed away some of our stand-by’s and put together [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, montessori on Sep 9th, 2008 11 Comments »
I should explain. This is a homeschool blog, right? So, why have I been so stingy with the school-related postings lately??? It’s not as if we haven’t been doing it, because we have. I just have not been taking many pictures or been inspired to blog about it much lately. So many other things on [...]
Posted in food, JBug, montessori on Aug 17th, 2008 13 Comments »
One thing I love about Montessori methods is that they encourage children to be independent and to do real, meaningful work. I find that my children love to feel like they are useful contributors to the household, and I try to give them real work to do whenever possible. Here is just one example of [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori, pre-school on May 12th, 2008 13 Comments »
A commenter asked me if, since we are now unschooling, I would be giving up the Montessori stuff. My answer is that no, I will still be using Montessori materials and methods with JBug and the littles, for two reasons. First, in short, it is working! Second (and the longer answer) is that I feel [...]
Posted in garden, montessori, nature study, science on Apr 10th, 2008 8 Comments »
We’ve had a blast with our spring Montessori trays! And thanks to a fun discussion at the 4Real boards, I’ve been brainstorming some ideas for more garden-themed nature trays for the littles. We will certainly be giving these a try in the next few weeks! And as soon as I do, I will put up [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., garden, montessori, nature study, pre-school, science on Apr 8th, 2008 9 Comments »
We are having so much fun with our botany and gardening! The littles like it so much I decided to put together a few trays for them to continue the work on their own. I can’t wait to introduce them tomorrow! The first tray is for painting clay pots: There are clay pots, some tubes [...]
Posted in montessori, Random Ramblings on Apr 1st, 2008 6 Comments »
But we ARE keeping busy. Superboy is having fun with his art unit and writing more poetry. We also begin our botany unit this week. Hooray for spring! JBug learned the addition stamp game today and enjoyed it very much, once she figured out just exactly was going on. She likes the fact that the [...]
