Autumn is such a wonderful season, and the best one to observe nature's transformation. The days grow colder and darker, the animals gathering food and preparing for winter, and the amazing leaves changing colour, from their usual green to the enchanting red, yellow or rusty. But did you know that there are two types of trees? The trees that lose their leave are called "deciduous" trees (shedding leaves helps trees conserve energy and water during winter) and the ones that don't, are called … [Read more...]
Authentic Handmade Materials for Your Dream Montessori Classroom
When it comes to creating learning space for the students, it is not about the quantity, but about the quality. If you've been teaching children for a while, you soon begin to realize that not all materials and tools are created equal. One of the unique aspects of Montessori materials is that they are designed for a specific purpose and accompany a learning goal. Aside from being aesthetically pleasing, they are engaging and enjoyable for a child to work with. Practically all Montessori … [Read more...]
Forest Cards and Nature Journaling
Nature has always been an important part of my life, ever since I was a child, and this was one of the things I wanted to share with my children. To be able to discover it together, to see them explore it, in their own unique way, and to teach them nature's importance, and how to protect it.Nature is the one place where you can learn not only to connect with yourself but live in harmony with the environment. It teaches you to protect and respect life, and each living thing, big or small. Nature … [Read more...]
One Day in the Life of a Homeschooling Family
Do you wonder sometimes what a day in the life of another homeschooling family may look like? Unless you are a part of a dynamic and large homeschooling community, you may not have time or energy to connect with others on a regular basis to discuss your routines and timetable. As per a few requests I would like to offer a glimpse into our daily learning life and share how we manage to provide a high-quality education to our three children in the home environment. In the morning children are … [Read more...]
Spring Hands-on Activities for Preschool Children
In our classroom, the change of season or special occasion generated elevated excitement as children always anticipated finding freshly prepared materials on the shelves. For that reason, I gathered a collection of Spring themed hands-on individual activities for your preschool students. Spring vocabulary cards for the memory or match-up games, storytelling startups and for building sentences. Classifying cards with birds, bees and butterflies. I spy with my little eye game Size grading … [Read more...]
Rain Could In a Jar Science Experiment Plus Types of Clouds Printable
This Rain Cloud in a Jar Experiment is a great way to engage your children aged 3-6 in conducting a simple science experiment before heading outdoors. Looking up in the sky on an overcast day can be quite relaxing and entertaining. As I was inviting children to fill in the cup with water and pour coloured water over the shaving cream "cloud", I explained to them that water, when heated, evaporates turning into water vapours. These water vapours turn back into water drops after reaching cold … [Read more...]
New to Montessori Homeschooling?
When a family decides to take a route less traveled to homeschool their children the number of questions and choices you have to make is staggering and overwhelming. The list is never-ending - from what approach to take to how to manage household and expenses on one income, and of course, there is socialization. In fact, it is getting harder and harder for children to deal with issues that arise due to the mental health crisis children are facing today. The socialization aspect of the … [Read more...]
Editable Homeschool Planner
Keeping my teaching and planning organized always brought a sense of control and enabled to shift focus from curriculum goals and teaching agenda to one-on-one interactions with students on a more meaningful and deeper level. That allowed me to be present with the children and stay on top of the homeschool classroom organization. You can't overestimate the power of having a functional system to plan your teaching process at home. So I designed a Homeschool editable planner. I can't imagine … [Read more...]
What Goes Together In Nature – Classifying Activity
There are many ways to use cards and activities to prepare children for reading. Along with learning to identify sounds (in Montessori classrooms children learn sounds, not letter names) children need to develop comprehension skills. What Goes Together In Nature is an activity that can foster the development of comprehension skills, teach vocabulary, make associations and help students classify. I always prefer to use photographs when I design my printables - they are more a representation of … [Read more...]
Learning About Birds in the Montessori Preschool Classroom
Birds play a crucial role in Nature and represent a great diversity of the animal kingdom. There are roughly between 9,000 and 10,000 species of birds. Choosing to study birds is always guaranteed to be a popular topic with children in the school and a homeschool classroom. I created a set of materials that can help you to generate more interest and engage children into a learning process - reading, spelling, sorting, train memory while getting familiar with some of their favourite feathered … [Read more...]
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