Montessori Beginnings

 I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.  It was very busy at our house with lots of fami...

Okay I have to admit I've been totally slacking the last about 5 weeks.  We got out of our great routine and I kind of lost enthusiasm ...

Little J is sixteen months now.  L is back at school and we have managed to get back into some kind of routine. Now that LJ and I have ti...

It's summer and I for one am trying to take a break from formal Montessori activities.  L has other ideas though.  I have to say I'm...

I haven't been able to do much lately but was able to set this activity up mostly from the couch. It's my own version of animal sou...

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 decided to retire the chopsticks for a while and use the lacing beads for color matching. L is at the stage where she doesn't like cha...

Towards the end of L's 19th month we tried a couple of new things. The first one was of course potty training. I'm happy to report t...

L loves her "lacing chopsticks" so much but she's really mastered putting them on and taking them off and also putting all one...

Sometimes I think I should rename this blog "Cheap and Cheerful". As anyone who has read my posts will have realised I don't h...