Category: History
16
Mar
Make Your Own: Elementary Maps
by Claire
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One of the wonderful things about Montessori education is the emphasis on global awareness right from the Primary level. Three to six year old students...
26
Feb
Our Work – 2/25/2021
by Claire
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We’ve had a good few weeks since the New Year. Not every day is perfect of course, and not every piece of work hits home,...
09
Jan
A Fantastic First Week Back
by Claire
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This week I tried something new. I tried to be more relaxed about when and where we did our work. It’s not easy! I like...
20
Dec
Ancient Egypt – Week 6
by Claire
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Our last week focusing on Ancient Egypt! Six weeks has been a nice long time. It gave us time to have about two weeks to...
17
Dec
Ancient Egypt – Week 5
by Claire
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This week we dived into pyramids and mummies! We’d already covered a lot of information about mummies though our mythology reading – it’s hard to...
15
Dec
Homeschool, Montessori, and the Multi-Level Environment
by Claire
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One hallmark of Montessori is the multi-level environment. In a Montessori school classrooms usually have about a 3 year age span. During their time in...
13
Dec
Clay vs Papyrus! Historical Materials Experiment
by Claire
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Ancient Egyptians wrote on papyrus, so of course we used papyrus and learnt about it as part of our study of ancient Egypt. We even...
09
Dec
Ancient Egypt – Week 4
by Claire
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Week 4 was all about language and math! We went all in this week. Aside from a fraction multiplication lesson to continue on a theme,...
08
Dec
Ancient Egypt Guess Who
by Claire
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If you’ve been reading along, you’ll know that we’ve been all about Ancient Egypt lately. To help us learn our gods and goddesses I created...
08
Dec
Ancient Egypt – Week 3
by Claire
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We switched things up! Originally my plan called for us to work on Ancient Egyptian writing and mathematics next, but diving into Daily Life left...
