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 | Sep 12, 2016 | Language & Literacy
What is a miniature environment? The miniature environment is one of the most powerful and versatile tools of the Montessori language program. A miniature environment can literally be any themed set of materials. The most common children’s...
by Heidi | Sep 8, 2016 | Language & Literacy
A few weeks ago, a friend stopped by to pick my brain about “going deep” in our studies. If there is one thing the Montessori method does extremely well it is to dig deep into the corners of a subject and expose new information even for...
by Heidi | Aug 12, 2016 | Infants and Toddlers, Language & Literacy
So we like to read at our house. Are you surprised by this? Probably, you shouldn’t be. Recently I’ve been working on re-expanding our collection of board books. After 6 kids, I noticed it was starting to dwindle from excessive use (read:...
by Heidi | Mar 18, 2015 | Language & Literacy
Most homeschool families I know (including myself) start to think about next year’s curriculum in the spring. Conference and used curriculum sale season is upon us, we have a good sense of what we will finish this year, and we know what we loved/hated...
by Heidi | Aug 18, 2014 | Language & Literacy
This presentation is used as a review presentation for the noun family with a child who has already learned each of these word types. It could also be used as an introduction to adjectives, but you will need to adjust the lesson accordingly. I will always...
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