by Heidi | Oct 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
A reader recently emailed me asking for suggestions for an upcoming birthday in their family. Their son is turning two and she was wondering about good learning toys and suggestions for someone considering homeschool, possibly with some Montessori influences. I...
by Heidi | Oct 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
We read so many books in a month it would be impossible to share them all, but these are a few of our favorites from this past month!Bugs A great book to read with a mixed age group. The left side of each two-page spread is a short poem about a common insect and on...
by Heidi | Sep 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the ways I have decided to incorporate Godly Play lessons into our curriculum is to use lessons that are liturgically relevant or tied into our curriculum or family life in another way. Sometimes that will be one per week, but sometimes (usually) it will be...
by Heidi | Sep 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’d love to take credit for this brilliant blog post title, but I can’t. It is the title of the 4th chapter of Karen Andreola’s, A Charlotte Mason Companion. Ms. Andreola in fact took the words straight from Charlotte Mason’s writing.I needed...
by Heidi | Sep 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
In addition to a spelling notebook, Aidan also has a grammer notebook. Montessori uses symbols to represent word types for a version of sentence diagramming. (See an example, here.)This year he is keeping lists of words in a notebook as a word bank for sentence...
by Heidi | Sep 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
For daily spelling practice, Aidan uses a spelling notebook to practice his word lists. Instead of just copying the words, however, he can choose from any number of ways to practice the list. Here are some of the ways that he uses the words, one for each day. Write in...
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