Montessori Beginnings

LJ is turning into quite the little person.  He is a major chatterbox just like his sister and has to be part of every conversation!   He...

At the beginning I was all gung ho with the practical life monthly update posts. I still am but don't have as much to tell as I listed m...

Today L and I went out for a long walk at our favorite park. It was a beautiful day but I can already feel the air changing from summer to ...

I found these animal puzzles and also some construction vehicle puzzles at the boot fair for 50p! They are 3,4,5 and 6 pieces and L can'...

This is what we did with the cardboard cutouts from the pattern block frames I made. Glued pom poms to them! L was a lot more interested in ...

I've been picking through our recycling pile again to make these recent activities. L is big time into puzzles at the moment so I though...

I just have to mention this amazing site that my mom found that is filled with any type of coloring sheet you could imagine. I love it becau...

We got this idea from Aayla do! Montessori . It is so cool. We went to the park with our basket and collected all sorts of things to make i...

These are some of the things we were up to before I dropped the camera... Family body tracing. We all really got into this and after doing ...

We finally got our new camera and we're back in business! We ended up getting a Fuji underwater camera which was in our price range and...

I still don't have a camera and yes I am going through all of the stages of grief. Thanks for the commiserations and advice. I would LOV...

About a month ago I was reading a post on Chasing Cheerios about her daughter learning the continents and singing the Continents Song . My f...

OK first the rant.... Why oh why don't the ABC picture books out there use the phonetic sounds??? L is really into alphabet books at the...

I came up with this while draining the pasta. L's first attempt at lacing. She kind of grasped the concept with quite a bit of help fr...