Remembering

I’m a person who always thinks its important to remember where we started in order to fully appreciate where we are. We have been homeschooling officially for over 1 year now and I recently came across a post I wrote after a few weeks in…..We are three...

Language Part 2- Writing

Writing. I must be honest, this was the area I struggled with the most when we made the Montessori transition. I was always thinking things to myself. What do you mean they don’t need to trace a million letters to learn to write? What do you mean they are going...

Language Part 1- Sounds & Spelling

In deciding where to begin my discussion of language, I had a difficult time on where to start. Writing technically comes before reading in the Montessori curriculum, but there are many sound games and other pre reading activities that come before writing. In addition...

Trying Something New

I’m going to start a series of posting by topics on our Montessori blended homeschool approach. I have noticed a few other bloggers posting by subject area and its been fun to read more details on their total approach. I will start with language and go from...

Lever Lessons for Little Lads

As fun as our incline plane experiments were last week, everyone was excited to jump right into our science lesson this week. The topic of the day? Levers.Now today we started out nice and boring with a nice traditional looking lever. We learned about the parts...