by Heidi | May 26, 2017 | Language & Literacy
Look & find, or I-spy, books are a favorite around here and they have a great dual purpose of promoting visual discrimination, a key pre reading skill. Visual discrimination, or the ability to see how two things are different or the same and how they relate...
by Heidi | Apr 27, 2017 | Practical Life
I have wild children. By this, I mean they would be outside in our woods all day, every day- and sometimes they are. They love to make their own little herbal concoctions and pretend brews and once spent an entire summer stocking their fort...
by Heidi | Apr 17, 2017 | Practical Life
In almost 14 years of parenting, I have done a ton of cooking with my kids and now they do a lot of cooking on their own. Some of it has been very formal and intentional in its Montessori application and other parts have been more free-form. Keep reading for a...
by Heidi | Mar 29, 2017 | Infants and Toddlers
Hey, Heidi has six kids AND a degree … she’s got this parenting/homeschool/teacher thing figured out by now. Right?! I think sometimes we need other moms to have it figured out because it gives us hope that we can figure it out too. Today...
by Heidi | Mar 23, 2017 | Practical Life
Do you have a water source that is easy for your children to access? You might think that sounds like one big headache, but I promise you nothing is further from the truth! Our Water Source Set Up We have the pitcher set up on our hand washing table. The...
by Heidi | Mar 17, 2017 | Infants and Toddlers
I’m still working on a post about the Montessori and GAPS work we are doing with Tomas right now, but it is a long post and keeps getting pushed back. In the meantime, he gave me a beautiful sample of the amazing things he is capable of today...
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