by Heidi | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two day weeks are perfect for pretty much one thing and one thing only- mini units! I actually didn’t have a plan for our Thanksgiving week mini-unit until oh sometime late last night, when my friend Erika at Raising (& Teaching) Little Saints shared...
by Heidi | Nov 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Caleb has been working with the addition strip board and reviewing his addition basic facts. I chose to do this as a transition back to Montessori math after his stint in school. They were working on basic addition so I decided to do basic facts before bridging...
by Heidi | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Those of you who have been following this blog for some time, might be familiar with the Words Their Way spelling curriculum we use. In short, Words Their Way is a developmental spelling program founded in helping students make sense of spelling using picture...
by Heidi | Nov 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
The number one reason we enrolled Caleb into school is the intensity of his routine needs and the meltdowns that followed when things didn’t go the way he had planned in his brain. It was too much intensity for me all day every day and he would get in...
by Heidi | Oct 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Aidan is still plugging away on memorizing his multiplication basic facts. This past week he has worked extensively with the decanomial. The decanomial (or Square of Pythagorus), for those of you who are not familiar is a visual representation of all of...
by Heidi | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
I posted earlier this month on a few of our early name writing activities and my thoughts on when children can and should learn to write their names. If you didn’t have a chance to read that post, be sure to click over and see a few of the ideas available...
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