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Periodically I’ll be providing snapshots of our work week. Currently the girls are working on follow up work from the First Great Lesson, and biome studies as their larger projects, along with work in other areas. Here’s what we got up to in this four-day week: This post contains affiliateContinue Reading

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I have another new product! I’m struggling with follow up work. I feel like I have a fairly good handle on reading through the albums, determining what Funball is ready for, magicking up the materials, and presenting the lesson…but what I don’t know is how to come up with followContinue Reading

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I did not plan to do the Great Lessons so early in the school year. I don’t think Funball got more that the First Lesson last school year, so when school closed in March, I jumped in and we did them all. Doing them again now seemed premature. I thoughtContinue Reading

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Here we go – while we’ve jumped into homeschool on a last minute decision, in my head I’d been planning for this all along and had a fair idea of what we’d use. Bones for the academic year are planned, but I do have some holes to fill in asContinue Reading

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My 5.5 year old just spent an hour working on adjectives. Incredible, right? Only if you’re picturing a lecture, a workbook, and lots of writing. Of course, that’s not what happened. We are learning grammar through the Montessori philosophy. Now, I’ll admit, Daisy is a little young for this particularContinue Reading

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And so it begins. As the summer wore on, our school district declared that as many students as possible would be back for in-person learning. Those that chose to stay home would sit at home and watch the classroom. COVID numbers increased. Finally, the district was forced to announce 100%Continue Reading

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Who doesn’t love a good look around someone else’s house? 😉 We’ve had a set of “Montessori shelves” in our dining room since my oldest was about 18 months old. The shelves have been through preschool iterations, and back in about February I finally took most of the work offContinue Reading

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When we began COVID homeschool in March, Funball was having a bit of a subtraction block. The kind of block that exclaims “I can’t do it!” – which of course proves the statement true. We talked a lot about needing more practice, growth mind set, not being able to doContinue Reading

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I’ve just uploaded a new product to my Etsy Store! In a Montessori environment, students are encouraged to come up with their own equations to practice math operations. However, sometimes inspiration just isn’t hitting. Especially in the case of division, it is hard for children to come up with equationsContinue Reading

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Metal Insets are part of the primary (3-6 year old) Montessori language curriculum. By learning to trace both the outside of the blue shape and the inside of the pink frame, primary students practice all the motions needed for writing.Continue Reading