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By: claire
On: November 29, 2018

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I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles!

During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background.

Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles.

This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! 

The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters.

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#homeschool #montessori #diymontessori
#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles!

During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background.

Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles.

This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! 

The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters.

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diymontessori
#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles!

During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background.

Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles.

This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! 

The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters.

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diymontessori
#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles!

During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background.

Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles.

This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! 

The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters.

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diymontessori
#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles!

During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background.

Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles.

This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! 

The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters.

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diymontessori
#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles!

During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background.

Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles.

This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! 

The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters.

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diymontessori
#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles!

During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background.

Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles.

This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! 

The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters.

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diymontessori
#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
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I-Spy Detective Adjective Triangles! During the first two weeks of this semesters Math Art class we talked about quadrilaterals. We are now working on an "Exploding Bug" symmetry project, but I'm adding triangles in the background. Since I'd told the kids the story of the quadrilateral family from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer, and the kids are all upper elementary and middle school age, rather than classify the triangles for them, I gave small groups each one color set of detective adjective triangles and asked them to figure out what properties they could use to classify triangles. This worked because they are all second plane aged - the reasoning mind - and I primed their thinking by asking them to recall the two properties we used to classify quadrilaterals before we started the activity. When we came back together as a group, one group suggested classifying by sides, another by angles, and we were able to build the 7 Triangles of Reality grid together (not pictured). There was some surprise that there are only 7 types of triangle! The kids then painted their bugs and backgrounds, which were prepared last week. Exactly half my class is finished painting, and half needs another paint day. We can't complete the project while the paint is wet, so I think I am on the hunt for a quick triangle project to fill next week for the non-painters. ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diymontessori #homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome #montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies #homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath #montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry #geometrylessons #mathinnature #mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
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These days, homeschool mornings around here look a lot like this. 

My youngest is out of the house 4 mornings a week - a homeschool musical got added to the schedule last minute - and the trade off/deal to make this work is that 8-9am Monday-Thursday is a work hour. 

On Mondays we go through her schedule for the week, set up her social studies work for the week and I pass on anything she needs to know/we schedule any lessons needed. Tuesday - Thursday mornings are math before leaving the house, and on Fridays she gets to sleep in and start her work at 9am like we've always done before. 😂 Sometimes afternoon work happens at home, sometimes it happens at the library, and sometimes it happens in other places. 

If anything, this season of homeschool is teaching her a lot of independence and time management!

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These days, homeschool mornings around here look a lot like this. My youngest is out of the house 4 mornings a week - a homeschool musical got added to the schedule last minute - and the trade off/deal to make this work is that 8-9am Monday-Thursday is a work hour. On Mondays we go through her schedule for the week, set up her social studies work for the week and I pass on anything she needs to know/we schedule any lessons needed. Tuesday - Thursday mornings are math before leaving the house, and on Fridays she gets to sleep in and start her work at 9am like we've always done before. 😂 Sometimes afternoon work happens at home, sometimes it happens at the library, and sometimes it happens in other places. If anything, this season of homeschool is teaching her a lot of independence and time management! ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diymontessori #homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome #montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #growingup #homeschoolcoop #backtoschool #homeschoollife #homeschoolwithfriends
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I told the Story of the Early Earth in my Cosmic Stories class today. 

I always begin a story by asking what they might remember from previous relevant stories. I have a small group, and so when I started today's story they all asked questions all the way through - so many connections back to earlier stories about metals in the earth, the sinking of heavier materials, the different states of matter, and the rising and sinking of matter due to heat/heat loss.

Once the story was over, work choices involved book (as always!), research, my volcano puzzle, and the option to use model magic to make a model of the Earth - complete with floss-cut-away reveal. So exciting!

During the first week of class, I limited the more hands-on art activity to only two students at a time. Last week, I provided options for all students to complete the hands-on activity at the same time, and this week I returned to only providing enough resources for two students at a time to make the Earth model - I much prefer this limiting! While I have two students engaged in the "most attractive" task, the others begin drawing, reading, or research work. They often break from this work when the hands-on activity becomes available, but are then excited to return to their first project. I saw some wonderful research about volcanoes today, and helped to find answers to questions about plate tectonics. One student did a wonderful drawing of ocean Earth too, but I did not get to snap a picture of that.

They were also super enthralled by my bound book with all the stories in - I wanted something organized and pretty, but it is definitely adding to the drama of the stories!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I told the Story of the Early Earth in my Cosmic Stories class today. 

I always begin a story by asking what they might remember from previous relevant stories. I have a small group, and so when I started today's story they all asked questions all the way through - so many connections back to earlier stories about metals in the earth, the sinking of heavier materials, the different states of matter, and the rising and sinking of matter due to heat/heat loss.

Once the story was over, work choices involved book (as always!), research, my volcano puzzle, and the option to use model magic to make a model of the Earth - complete with floss-cut-away reveal. So exciting!

During the first week of class, I limited the more hands-on art activity to only two students at a time. Last week, I provided options for all students to complete the hands-on activity at the same time, and this week I returned to only providing enough resources for two students at a time to make the Earth model - I much prefer this limiting! While I have two students engaged in the "most attractive" task, the others begin drawing, reading, or research work. They often break from this work when the hands-on activity becomes available, but are then excited to return to their first project. I saw some wonderful research about volcanoes today, and helped to find answers to questions about plate tectonics. One student did a wonderful drawing of ocean Earth too, but I did not get to snap a picture of that.

They were also super enthralled by my bound book with all the stories in - I wanted something organized and pretty, but it is definitely adding to the drama of the stories!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I told the Story of the Early Earth in my Cosmic Stories class today. 

I always begin a story by asking what they might remember from previous relevant stories. I have a small group, and so when I started today's story they all asked questions all the way through - so many connections back to earlier stories about metals in the earth, the sinking of heavier materials, the different states of matter, and the rising and sinking of matter due to heat/heat loss.

Once the story was over, work choices involved book (as always!), research, my volcano puzzle, and the option to use model magic to make a model of the Earth - complete with floss-cut-away reveal. So exciting!

During the first week of class, I limited the more hands-on art activity to only two students at a time. Last week, I provided options for all students to complete the hands-on activity at the same time, and this week I returned to only providing enough resources for two students at a time to make the Earth model - I much prefer this limiting! While I have two students engaged in the "most attractive" task, the others begin drawing, reading, or research work. They often break from this work when the hands-on activity becomes available, but are then excited to return to their first project. I saw some wonderful research about volcanoes today, and helped to find answers to questions about plate tectonics. One student did a wonderful drawing of ocean Earth too, but I did not get to snap a picture of that.

They were also super enthralled by my bound book with all the stories in - I wanted something organized and pretty, but it is definitely adding to the drama of the stories!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I told the Story of the Early Earth in my Cosmic Stories class today. 

I always begin a story by asking what they might remember from previous relevant stories. I have a small group, and so when I started today's story they all asked questions all the way through - so many connections back to earlier stories about metals in the earth, the sinking of heavier materials, the different states of matter, and the rising and sinking of matter due to heat/heat loss.

Once the story was over, work choices involved book (as always!), research, my volcano puzzle, and the option to use model magic to make a model of the Earth - complete with floss-cut-away reveal. So exciting!

During the first week of class, I limited the more hands-on art activity to only two students at a time. Last week, I provided options for all students to complete the hands-on activity at the same time, and this week I returned to only providing enough resources for two students at a time to make the Earth model - I much prefer this limiting! While I have two students engaged in the "most attractive" task, the others begin drawing, reading, or research work. They often break from this work when the hands-on activity becomes available, but are then excited to return to their first project. I saw some wonderful research about volcanoes today, and helped to find answers to questions about plate tectonics. One student did a wonderful drawing of ocean Earth too, but I did not get to snap a picture of that.

They were also super enthralled by my bound book with all the stories in - I wanted something organized and pretty, but it is definitely adding to the drama of the stories!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I told the Story of the Early Earth in my Cosmic Stories class today. 

I always begin a story by asking what they might remember from previous relevant stories. I have a small group, and so when I started today's story they all asked questions all the way through - so many connections back to earlier stories about metals in the earth, the sinking of heavier materials, the different states of matter, and the rising and sinking of matter due to heat/heat loss.

Once the story was over, work choices involved book (as always!), research, my volcano puzzle, and the option to use model magic to make a model of the Earth - complete with floss-cut-away reveal. So exciting!

During the first week of class, I limited the more hands-on art activity to only two students at a time. Last week, I provided options for all students to complete the hands-on activity at the same time, and this week I returned to only providing enough resources for two students at a time to make the Earth model - I much prefer this limiting! While I have two students engaged in the "most attractive" task, the others begin drawing, reading, or research work. They often break from this work when the hands-on activity becomes available, but are then excited to return to their first project. I saw some wonderful research about volcanoes today, and helped to find answers to questions about plate tectonics. One student did a wonderful drawing of ocean Earth too, but I did not get to snap a picture of that.

They were also super enthralled by my bound book with all the stories in - I wanted something organized and pretty, but it is definitely adding to the drama of the stories!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I told the Story of the Early Earth in my Cosmic Stories class today. 

I always begin a story by asking what they might remember from previous relevant stories. I have a small group, and so when I started today's story they all asked questions all the way through - so many connections back to earlier stories about metals in the earth, the sinking of heavier materials, the different states of matter, and the rising and sinking of matter due to heat/heat loss.

Once the story was over, work choices involved book (as always!), research, my volcano puzzle, and the option to use model magic to make a model of the Earth - complete with floss-cut-away reveal. So exciting!

During the first week of class, I limited the more hands-on art activity to only two students at a time. Last week, I provided options for all students to complete the hands-on activity at the same time, and this week I returned to only providing enough resources for two students at a time to make the Earth model - I much prefer this limiting! While I have two students engaged in the "most attractive" task, the others begin drawing, reading, or research work. They often break from this work when the hands-on activity becomes available, but are then excited to return to their first project. I saw some wonderful research about volcanoes today, and helped to find answers to questions about plate tectonics. One student did a wonderful drawing of ocean Earth too, but I did not get to snap a picture of that.

They were also super enthralled by my bound book with all the stories in - I wanted something organized and pretty, but it is definitely adding to the drama of the stories!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
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I told the Story of the Early Earth in my Cosmic Stories class today. I always begin a story by asking what they might remember from previous relevant stories. I have a small group, and so when I started today's story they all asked questions all the way through - so many connections back to earlier stories about metals in the earth, the sinking of heavier materials, the different states of matter, and the rising and sinking of matter due to heat/heat loss. Once the story was over, work choices involved book (as always!), research, my volcano puzzle, and the option to use model magic to make a model of the Earth - complete with floss-cut-away reveal. So exciting! During the first week of class, I limited the more hands-on art activity to only two students at a time. Last week, I provided options for all students to complete the hands-on activity at the same time, and this week I returned to only providing enough resources for two students at a time to make the Earth model - I much prefer this limiting! While I have two students engaged in the "most attractive" task, the others begin drawing, reading, or research work. They often break from this work when the hands-on activity becomes available, but are then excited to return to their first project. I saw some wonderful research about volcanoes today, and helped to find answers to questions about plate tectonics. One student did a wonderful drawing of ocean Earth too, but I did not get to snap a picture of that. They were also super enthralled by my bound book with all the stories in - I wanted something organized and pretty, but it is definitely adding to the drama of the stories! ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool #homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks #secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies #homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoollifestyle #montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity #montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #homeschoollife #cosmicstories
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I was asked to share a little bit about our homeschool community. We are part of two (or maybe this year three - but the kids all overlap) different co-ops and communities in our area, so today I'll write a little about our first one came to be.

My oldest was in elementary school until COVID, and while she was there my youngest took a gymnastics class with a boy who had an older sister at the same school. The other mum and I would chat a bit during gym class, discuss our work, say hi at school pickup & drop off, but that was really about it.

Over that 2020 summer I started looking into alternatives to putting my youngest on zoom school for Kinder. We'd started homeschooling the very next week after school closed, and I wanted to keep going. A friend connected me and that gymnastics class mum and we kind of dived in together! 

Right from the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year we talked curriculum and discovered that we really had a lot of educational ideas and goals in common. We met every week to do art and science together, and ended up choosing the same history curriculum. While we didn't do history together, we would periodically create "history days" for all the kids, or bring those topics into our art or science lessons. Other families have joined our fun too and the small group has grown, shrunk, and changed over time.

We've done so much! Art history, Greek Olympics, Colonial days, Renaissance science, trips to gold country, Imaginary Island, creek trips, philosophy classes, state capitol trips...the photos represent just a tiny fraction of all the activities our kids have done together since the fall of 2020.

So our first homeschool community may have come about through timing, but it's thrived and provided such great experiences for all our kids. @bringhomeknowledge , we're so glad to have been doing this along side you! Look at all the awesome things we've done with our kids!

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#homeschoolmontessori  #homeschooler #unitstudies
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I was asked to share a little bit about our homeschool community. We are part of two (or maybe this year three - but the kids all overlap) different co-ops and communities in our area, so today I'll write a little about our first one came to be.

My oldest was in elementary school until COVID, and while she was there my youngest took a gymnastics class with a boy who had an older sister at the same school. The other mum and I would chat a bit during gym class, discuss our work, say hi at school pickup & drop off, but that was really about it.

Over that 2020 summer I started looking into alternatives to putting my youngest on zoom school for Kinder. We'd started homeschooling the very next week after school closed, and I wanted to keep going. A friend connected me and that gymnastics class mum and we kind of dived in together! 

Right from the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year we talked curriculum and discovered that we really had a lot of educational ideas and goals in common. We met every week to do art and science together, and ended up choosing the same history curriculum. While we didn't do history together, we would periodically create "history days" for all the kids, or bring those topics into our art or science lessons. Other families have joined our fun too and the small group has grown, shrunk, and changed over time.

We've done so much! Art history, Greek Olympics, Colonial days, Renaissance science, trips to gold country, Imaginary Island, creek trips, philosophy classes, state capitol trips...the photos represent just a tiny fraction of all the activities our kids have done together since the fall of 2020.

So our first homeschool community may have come about through timing, but it's thrived and provided such great experiences for all our kids. @bringhomeknowledge , we're so glad to have been doing this along side you! Look at all the awesome things we've done with our kids!

___________________________________
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I was asked to share a little bit about our homeschool community. We are part of two (or maybe this year three - but the kids all overlap) different co-ops and communities in our area, so today I'll write a little about our first one came to be.

My oldest was in elementary school until COVID, and while she was there my youngest took a gymnastics class with a boy who had an older sister at the same school. The other mum and I would chat a bit during gym class, discuss our work, say hi at school pickup & drop off, but that was really about it.

Over that 2020 summer I started looking into alternatives to putting my youngest on zoom school for Kinder. We'd started homeschooling the very next week after school closed, and I wanted to keep going. A friend connected me and that gymnastics class mum and we kind of dived in together! 

Right from the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year we talked curriculum and discovered that we really had a lot of educational ideas and goals in common. We met every week to do art and science together, and ended up choosing the same history curriculum. While we didn't do history together, we would periodically create "history days" for all the kids, or bring those topics into our art or science lessons. Other families have joined our fun too and the small group has grown, shrunk, and changed over time.

We've done so much! Art history, Greek Olympics, Colonial days, Renaissance science, trips to gold country, Imaginary Island, creek trips, philosophy classes, state capitol trips...the photos represent just a tiny fraction of all the activities our kids have done together since the fall of 2020.

So our first homeschool community may have come about through timing, but it's thrived and provided such great experiences for all our kids. @bringhomeknowledge , we're so glad to have been doing this along side you! Look at all the awesome things we've done with our kids!

___________________________________
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I was asked to share a little bit about our homeschool community. We are part of two (or maybe this year three - but the kids all overlap) different co-ops and communities in our area, so today I'll write a little about our first one came to be.

My oldest was in elementary school until COVID, and while she was there my youngest took a gymnastics class with a boy who had an older sister at the same school. The other mum and I would chat a bit during gym class, discuss our work, say hi at school pickup & drop off, but that was really about it.

Over that 2020 summer I started looking into alternatives to putting my youngest on zoom school for Kinder. We'd started homeschooling the very next week after school closed, and I wanted to keep going. A friend connected me and that gymnastics class mum and we kind of dived in together! 

Right from the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year we talked curriculum and discovered that we really had a lot of educational ideas and goals in common. We met every week to do art and science together, and ended up choosing the same history curriculum. While we didn't do history together, we would periodically create "history days" for all the kids, or bring those topics into our art or science lessons. Other families have joined our fun too and the small group has grown, shrunk, and changed over time.

We've done so much! Art history, Greek Olympics, Colonial days, Renaissance science, trips to gold country, Imaginary Island, creek trips, philosophy classes, state capitol trips...the photos represent just a tiny fraction of all the activities our kids have done together since the fall of 2020.

So our first homeschool community may have come about through timing, but it's thrived and provided such great experiences for all our kids. @bringhomeknowledge , we're so glad to have been doing this along side you! Look at all the awesome things we've done with our kids!

___________________________________
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#homeschoolmontessori  #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
I was asked to share a little bit about our homeschool community. We are part of two (or maybe this year three - but the kids all overlap) different co-ops and communities in our area, so today I'll write a little about our first one came to be.

My oldest was in elementary school until COVID, and while she was there my youngest took a gymnastics class with a boy who had an older sister at the same school. The other mum and I would chat a bit during gym class, discuss our work, say hi at school pickup & drop off, but that was really about it.

Over that 2020 summer I started looking into alternatives to putting my youngest on zoom school for Kinder. We'd started homeschooling the very next week after school closed, and I wanted to keep going. A friend connected me and that gymnastics class mum and we kind of dived in together! 

Right from the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year we talked curriculum and discovered that we really had a lot of educational ideas and goals in common. We met every week to do art and science together, and ended up choosing the same history curriculum. While we didn't do history together, we would periodically create "history days" for all the kids, or bring those topics into our art or science lessons. Other families have joined our fun too and the small group has grown, shrunk, and changed over time.

We've done so much! Art history, Greek Olympics, Colonial days, Renaissance science, trips to gold country, Imaginary Island, creek trips, philosophy classes, state capitol trips...the photos represent just a tiny fraction of all the activities our kids have done together since the fall of 2020.

So our first homeschool community may have come about through timing, but it's thrived and provided such great experiences for all our kids. @bringhomeknowledge , we're so glad to have been doing this along side you! Look at all the awesome things we've done with our kids!

___________________________________
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#homeschoolmontessori  #homeschooler #unitstudies
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I was asked to share a little bit about our homeschool community. We are part of two (or maybe this year three - but the kids all overlap) different co-ops and communities in our area, so today I'll write a little about our first one came to be. My oldest was in elementary school until COVID, and while she was there my youngest took a gymnastics class with a boy who had an older sister at the same school. The other mum and I would chat a bit during gym class, discuss our work, say hi at school pickup & drop off, but that was really about it. Over that 2020 summer I started looking into alternatives to putting my youngest on zoom school for Kinder. We'd started homeschooling the very next week after school closed, and I wanted to keep going. A friend connected me and that gymnastics class mum and we kind of dived in together! Right from the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year we talked curriculum and discovered that we really had a lot of educational ideas and goals in common. We met every week to do art and science together, and ended up choosing the same history curriculum. While we didn't do history together, we would periodically create "history days" for all the kids, or bring those topics into our art or science lessons. Other families have joined our fun too and the small group has grown, shrunk, and changed over time. We've done so much! Art history, Greek Olympics, Colonial days, Renaissance science, trips to gold country, Imaginary Island, creek trips, philosophy classes, state capitol trips...the photos represent just a tiny fraction of all the activities our kids have done together since the fall of 2020. So our first homeschool community may have come about through timing, but it's thrived and provided such great experiences for all our kids. @bringhomeknowledge , we're so glad to have been doing this along side you! Look at all the awesome things we've done with our kids! ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool #homeschoolmontessori #homeschooler #unitstudies #homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks #homeschoollifestyle #montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity
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I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

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I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

___________________________________
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I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

___________________________________
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#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
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#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy 
#homeschoollifestyle
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#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
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#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy 
#homeschoollifestyle
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#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy 
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
#homeschoolcommunity
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy 
#homeschoollifestyle
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
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#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks
#homeschoollife #cosmicstories
I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that.

So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home.

After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that.

The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies.

This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table.

There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :)

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
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#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy 
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#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy
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I'm teaching a "Cosmic Stories" class to 1st-4th graders in our homeschool community this semester. Over the 14 weeks I will tell the stories for the Montessori five great lessons, interleaved with other stories like stellar neucleosynthesis or a story of time, story of plants - things like that. So how am I keeping this a little bit Montessori within the constraints of only seeing the kids for an hour or so per week? Well, I love all these stories, and I think that learning through story is memorable. All the stories I am choosing to tell are "seed planters" - nothing should be memorized from the stories, but little sparks and threads should start to weave in the kids brains to provide a base for anything else we do in the class or that they do at home. After the story I am providing activity choices - always related books to read, always the option to draw a picture about what they heard, and always some questions to research. In addition I will always have at least one other activity: art, a science experience, a hands-on activity, something like that. The first week, I told the Story of the Coming of the Universe. I forgot to take anything beyond set up photos 😂 All the kids chose to complete an art projects. One chose some matching work, and I think the others all drew/wrote about comets or galaxies. This week I told the story of Stellar Neucleosynthesis. Everyone chose to follow up with a cut-and-paste activity about the parts of the sun. One student rad through several books, and the others took my element cards and counted through the elements, building the start of the periodic table. There are many, many stories I could choose to tell. I asked the children if they would like their next story to be about the planets, or about Earth - and so we will be moving on to Earth next week :) ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool #homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks #secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies #homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoollifestyle #montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity #montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #homeschoollife #cosmicstories
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I am back with more Math Art :) This semester my class is "nature inspired" and we kicked of with a project referencing gems and crystal formations.

I have discovered that it is always a good idea to start the semester off with a ruler use project. Drawing a straight line with a ruler seems so simple to grownups, but every semester I meet a kid who hasn't really used a ruler - or doesn't see the point.

For this project I also told the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from Michael Dorer's book The Deep Well of Time. The kids in my class are upper elementary and middle school level so they were able to help me reason through my story and anticipate what might come next in the "family." This project spanned about a class and a half, so we were able to review shapes and concepts at the beginning of the second class.

The project is made with pencil to start, then sharpies and washable markers. We used paint brushes and water to blend the washable marker colors on thicker watercolor paper. Most kids had color down on their papers by the end of the first class, but the water still blended beautifully even after the color sat on the paper for a week. Don't they look great?

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I am back with more Math Art :) This semester my class is "nature inspired" and we kicked of with a project referencing gems and crystal formations.

I have discovered that it is always a good idea to start the semester off with a ruler use project. Drawing a straight line with a ruler seems so simple to grownups, but every semester I meet a kid who hasn't really used a ruler - or doesn't see the point.

For this project I also told the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from Michael Dorer's book The Deep Well of Time. The kids in my class are upper elementary and middle school level so they were able to help me reason through my story and anticipate what might come next in the "family." This project spanned about a class and a half, so we were able to review shapes and concepts at the beginning of the second class.

The project is made with pencil to start, then sharpies and washable markers. We used paint brushes and water to blend the washable marker colors on thicker watercolor paper. Most kids had color down on their papers by the end of the first class, but the water still blended beautifully even after the color sat on the paper for a week. Don't they look great?

___________________________________
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#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I am back with more Math Art :) This semester my class is "nature inspired" and we kicked of with a project referencing gems and crystal formations.

I have discovered that it is always a good idea to start the semester off with a ruler use project. Drawing a straight line with a ruler seems so simple to grownups, but every semester I meet a kid who hasn't really used a ruler - or doesn't see the point.

For this project I also told the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from Michael Dorer's book The Deep Well of Time. The kids in my class are upper elementary and middle school level so they were able to help me reason through my story and anticipate what might come next in the "family." This project spanned about a class and a half, so we were able to review shapes and concepts at the beginning of the second class.

The project is made with pencil to start, then sharpies and washable markers. We used paint brushes and water to blend the washable marker colors on thicker watercolor paper. Most kids had color down on their papers by the end of the first class, but the water still blended beautifully even after the color sat on the paper for a week. Don't they look great?

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I am back with more Math Art :) This semester my class is "nature inspired" and we kicked of with a project referencing gems and crystal formations.

I have discovered that it is always a good idea to start the semester off with a ruler use project. Drawing a straight line with a ruler seems so simple to grownups, but every semester I meet a kid who hasn't really used a ruler - or doesn't see the point.

For this project I also told the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from Michael Dorer's book The Deep Well of Time. The kids in my class are upper elementary and middle school level so they were able to help me reason through my story and anticipate what might come next in the "family." This project spanned about a class and a half, so we were able to review shapes and concepts at the beginning of the second class.

The project is made with pencil to start, then sharpies and washable markers. We used paint brushes and water to blend the washable marker colors on thicker watercolor paper. Most kids had color down on their papers by the end of the first class, but the water still blended beautifully even after the color sat on the paper for a week. Don't they look great?

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#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
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#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I am back with more Math Art :) This semester my class is "nature inspired" and we kicked of with a project referencing gems and crystal formations.

I have discovered that it is always a good idea to start the semester off with a ruler use project. Drawing a straight line with a ruler seems so simple to grownups, but every semester I meet a kid who hasn't really used a ruler - or doesn't see the point.

For this project I also told the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from Michael Dorer's book The Deep Well of Time. The kids in my class are upper elementary and middle school level so they were able to help me reason through my story and anticipate what might come next in the "family." This project spanned about a class and a half, so we were able to review shapes and concepts at the beginning of the second class.

The project is made with pencil to start, then sharpies and washable markers. We used paint brushes and water to blend the washable marker colors on thicker watercolor paper. Most kids had color down on their papers by the end of the first class, but the water still blended beautifully even after the color sat on the paper for a week. Don't they look great?

___________________________________
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#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath
#montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry
#geometrylessons #mathinnature
#mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
I am back with more Math Art :) This semester my class is "nature inspired" and we kicked of with a project referencing gems and crystal formations.

I have discovered that it is always a good idea to start the semester off with a ruler use project. Drawing a straight line with a ruler seems so simple to grownups, but every semester I meet a kid who hasn't really used a ruler - or doesn't see the point.

For this project I also told the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from Michael Dorer's book The Deep Well of Time. The kids in my class are upper elementary and middle school level so they were able to help me reason through my story and anticipate what might come next in the "family." This project spanned about a class and a half, so we were able to review shapes and concepts at the beginning of the second class.

The project is made with pencil to start, then sharpies and washable markers. We used paint brushes and water to blend the washable marker colors on thicker watercolor paper. Most kids had color down on their papers by the end of the first class, but the water still blended beautifully even after the color sat on the paper for a week. Don't they look great?

___________________________________
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#homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome
#montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies
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I am back with more Math Art :) This semester my class is "nature inspired" and we kicked of with a project referencing gems and crystal formations. I have discovered that it is always a good idea to start the semester off with a ruler use project. Drawing a straight line with a ruler seems so simple to grownups, but every semester I meet a kid who hasn't really used a ruler - or doesn't see the point. For this project I also told the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from Michael Dorer's book The Deep Well of Time. The kids in my class are upper elementary and middle school level so they were able to help me reason through my story and anticipate what might come next in the "family." This project spanned about a class and a half, so we were able to review shapes and concepts at the beginning of the second class. The project is made with pencil to start, then sharpies and washable markers. We used paint brushes and water to blend the washable marker colors on thicker watercolor paper. Most kids had color down on their papers by the end of the first class, but the water still blended beautifully even after the color sat on the paper for a week. Don't they look great? ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diymontessori #homeschoolmontessori #montessoriathome #montessorihomeschooler #homeschooler #unitstudies #homeschoolunitstudies #math #montessorimath #montessorihomeschool #montessorimaths #geometry #geometrylessons #mathinnature #mathart #inspiredbynature #mathnatureart
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Well, my youngest and I might have started our school year a few weeks ago, because we decided to start a few days after my oldest started high school (and I haven't been taking any photos), but this week our homeschool community classes finally started!

She isn't taking any classes with me this semester - she is taking a middle school electricity-themed science class, has asked to have a "free period" so that she can take her own independent work and get some things done, and is then taking a sport class. She said today that several other kids that she knows arrived while she was working independently, and they had also brought their own independent work to do before lunch. Sounds like she got some things done :)

I am teaching three classes while she's there. I'm telling a series of Montessori Cosmic Stories to a lovely group of lower elementary kids - it is so lovely to revisit all these stories again! I am teaching another Math Art class - nature inspired this time - which started today with the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer and turned into some gem/crystal inspired work. And then, at the end of the day I'm teaching a geography class that will pull in many, many elements from the Fundamental Human needs framework. I'm super excited acout all these classes - more to come!

Our year will be very different this year - one kid in school all day, and the homeschooled kid spending two mornings at our homeschool community, and two mornings at homeschool musical rehearsals! My youngest will certainly be learning a lot about personal responsibility and time management!

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Well, my youngest and I might have started our school year a few weeks ago, because we decided to start a few days after my oldest started high school (and I haven't been taking any photos), but this week our homeschool community classes finally started!

She isn't taking any classes with me this semester - she is taking a middle school electricity-themed science class, has asked to have a "free period" so that she can take her own independent work and get some things done, and is then taking a sport class. She said today that several other kids that she knows arrived while she was working independently, and they had also brought their own independent work to do before lunch. Sounds like she got some things done :)

I am teaching three classes while she's there. I'm telling a series of Montessori Cosmic Stories to a lovely group of lower elementary kids - it is so lovely to revisit all these stories again! I am teaching another Math Art class - nature inspired this time - which started today with the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer and turned into some gem/crystal inspired work. And then, at the end of the day I'm teaching a geography class that will pull in many, many elements from the Fundamental Human needs framework. I'm super excited acout all these classes - more to come!

Our year will be very different this year - one kid in school all day, and the homeschooled kid spending two mornings at our homeschool community, and two mornings at homeschool musical rehearsals! My youngest will certainly be learning a lot about personal responsibility and time management!

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Well, my youngest and I might have started our school year a few weeks ago, because we decided to start a few days after my oldest started high school (and I haven't been taking any photos), but this week our homeschool community classes finally started!

She isn't taking any classes with me this semester - she is taking a middle school electricity-themed science class, has asked to have a "free period" so that she can take her own independent work and get some things done, and is then taking a sport class. She said today that several other kids that she knows arrived while she was working independently, and they had also brought their own independent work to do before lunch. Sounds like she got some things done :)

I am teaching three classes while she's there. I'm telling a series of Montessori Cosmic Stories to a lovely group of lower elementary kids - it is so lovely to revisit all these stories again! I am teaching another Math Art class - nature inspired this time - which started today with the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer and turned into some gem/crystal inspired work. And then, at the end of the day I'm teaching a geography class that will pull in many, many elements from the Fundamental Human needs framework. I'm super excited acout all these classes - more to come!

Our year will be very different this year - one kid in school all day, and the homeschooled kid spending two mornings at our homeschool community, and two mornings at homeschool musical rehearsals! My youngest will certainly be learning a lot about personal responsibility and time management!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks #homeschoollifestyle 
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity 
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #homeschoollife
Well, my youngest and I might have started our school year a few weeks ago, because we decided to start a few days after my oldest started high school (and I haven't been taking any photos), but this week our homeschool community classes finally started!

She isn't taking any classes with me this semester - she is taking a middle school electricity-themed science class, has asked to have a "free period" so that she can take her own independent work and get some things done, and is then taking a sport class. She said today that several other kids that she knows arrived while she was working independently, and they had also brought their own independent work to do before lunch. Sounds like she got some things done :)

I am teaching three classes while she's there. I'm telling a series of Montessori Cosmic Stories to a lovely group of lower elementary kids - it is so lovely to revisit all these stories again! I am teaching another Math Art class - nature inspired this time - which started today with the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer and turned into some gem/crystal inspired work. And then, at the end of the day I'm teaching a geography class that will pull in many, many elements from the Fundamental Human needs framework. I'm super excited acout all these classes - more to come!

Our year will be very different this year - one kid in school all day, and the homeschooled kid spending two mornings at our homeschool community, and two mornings at homeschool musical rehearsals! My youngest will certainly be learning a lot about personal responsibility and time management!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks #homeschoollifestyle 
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity 
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #homeschoollife
Well, my youngest and I might have started our school year a few weeks ago, because we decided to start a few days after my oldest started high school (and I haven't been taking any photos), but this week our homeschool community classes finally started!

She isn't taking any classes with me this semester - she is taking a middle school electricity-themed science class, has asked to have a "free period" so that she can take her own independent work and get some things done, and is then taking a sport class. She said today that several other kids that she knows arrived while she was working independently, and they had also brought their own independent work to do before lunch. Sounds like she got some things done :)

I am teaching three classes while she's there. I'm telling a series of Montessori Cosmic Stories to a lovely group of lower elementary kids - it is so lovely to revisit all these stories again! I am teaching another Math Art class - nature inspired this time - which started today with the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer and turned into some gem/crystal inspired work. And then, at the end of the day I'm teaching a geography class that will pull in many, many elements from the Fundamental Human needs framework. I'm super excited acout all these classes - more to come!

Our year will be very different this year - one kid in school all day, and the homeschooled kid spending two mornings at our homeschool community, and two mornings at homeschool musical rehearsals! My youngest will certainly be learning a lot about personal responsibility and time management!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks #homeschoollifestyle 
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity 
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #homeschoollife
Well, my youngest and I might have started our school year a few weeks ago, because we decided to start a few days after my oldest started high school (and I haven't been taking any photos), but this week our homeschool community classes finally started!

She isn't taking any classes with me this semester - she is taking a middle school electricity-themed science class, has asked to have a "free period" so that she can take her own independent work and get some things done, and is then taking a sport class. She said today that several other kids that she knows arrived while she was working independently, and they had also brought their own independent work to do before lunch. Sounds like she got some things done :)

I am teaching three classes while she's there. I'm telling a series of Montessori Cosmic Stories to a lovely group of lower elementary kids - it is so lovely to revisit all these stories again! I am teaching another Math Art class - nature inspired this time - which started today with the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer and turned into some gem/crystal inspired work. And then, at the end of the day I'm teaching a geography class that will pull in many, many elements from the Fundamental Human needs framework. I'm super excited acout all these classes - more to come!

Our year will be very different this year - one kid in school all day, and the homeschooled kid spending two mornings at our homeschool community, and two mornings at homeschool musical rehearsals! My youngest will certainly be learning a lot about personal responsibility and time management!

___________________________________
#homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool
#homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks
#secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies
#homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks #homeschoollifestyle 
#montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity 
#montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #homeschoollife
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Well, my youngest and I might have started our school year a few weeks ago, because we decided to start a few days after my oldest started high school (and I haven't been taking any photos), but this week our homeschool community classes finally started! She isn't taking any classes with me this semester - she is taking a middle school electricity-themed science class, has asked to have a "free period" so that she can take her own independent work and get some things done, and is then taking a sport class. She said today that several other kids that she knows arrived while she was working independently, and they had also brought their own independent work to do before lunch. Sounds like she got some things done :) I am teaching three classes while she's there. I'm telling a series of Montessori Cosmic Stories to a lovely group of lower elementary kids - it is so lovely to revisit all these stories again! I am teaching another Math Art class - nature inspired this time - which started today with the Quadrilateral Family Tree story from The Deep Well of Time by Michael Dorer and turned into some gem/crystal inspired work. And then, at the end of the day I'm teaching a geography class that will pull in many, many elements from the Fundamental Human needs framework. I'm super excited acout all these classes - more to come! Our year will be very different this year - one kid in school all day, and the homeschooled kid spending two mornings at our homeschool community, and two mornings at homeschool musical rehearsals! My youngest will certainly be learning a lot about personal responsibility and time management! ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool #homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks #secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies #homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks #homeschoollifestyle #montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #homeschoolcommunity #montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #homeschoollife
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My little and I started our Y2K unit study this week. We read "The First State of Being" last year and has been interested in the Y2K bug ever since. Since it is most specifically the bug she's interested in, we started with a couple of videos and articles about the history of the Y2K bug and lead up to 2000.

She found out a little bit about early mainframe computers and punch card programming, when the world wide web went online, when the first PCs were available, what exactly the Y2K bug was, and when people started taking notice. 

To keep track of some of this, we made ourselves timelines of the Y2K bug that we can continue to add to over the next few weeks :)

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My little and I started our Y2K unit study this week. We read "The First State of Being" last year and has been interested in the Y2K bug ever since. Since it is most specifically the bug she's interested in, we started with a couple of videos and articles about the history of the Y2K bug and lead up to 2000.

She found out a little bit about early mainframe computers and punch card programming, when the world wide web went online, when the first PCs were available, what exactly the Y2K bug was, and when people started taking notice. 

To keep track of some of this, we made ourselves timelines of the Y2K bug that we can continue to add to over the next few weeks :)

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My little and I started our Y2K unit study this week. We read "The First State of Being" last year and has been interested in the Y2K bug ever since. Since it is most specifically the bug she's interested in, we started with a couple of videos and articles about the history of the Y2K bug and lead up to 2000. She found out a little bit about early mainframe computers and punch card programming, when the world wide web went online, when the first PCs were available, what exactly the Y2K bug was, and when people started taking notice. To keep track of some of this, we made ourselves timelines of the Y2K bug that we can continue to add to over the next few weeks :) ___________________________________ #homeschool #montessori #diyhomeschool #homeschoolmontessori #welovebooks #secondhandbooks #homeschooler #unitstudies #homeschoolunitstudies #unitstudy #homeschoolbooks #montessorihomeschool #homeschoolunitstudy #montessorihomeschooling #booksbooksbooks #history #ushistory #books #worldhistory #y2k #y2kbug
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