Montessori Beginnings

L loves to play games or do activities after dinner and before bed.  I've been wanting to do a variation on Snakes and Ladders for ages ...

L has reached an age where she really enjoys playing games.  Here are a few that have been keeping her entertained. Digging for objects I...

Although we've been very busy with our Macedonian visitors we've managed to get a few activities in.  Next week I'm looking forw...

I finally got on board and decided to turn all of this rain into an activity.  We made our very own rain gauge.  It's very low tech and ...

I am so happy to finally have my laptop back! Oh yes and my husband ; ) he's finally finished his training. So now I can post whenever I...

Here are a few things we did last week. Thank you to Karen for the inspiration for this counting activity. I'm still looking for better ...

All of these activities have either been inspired or have been taken directly from one of the wonderful blogs that I follow. Thank you to a...

This last week we've been heavily into counting activities. In this first one I replaced the fish with circles with the numbers 1 to 5 o...

It's taken us a while but it's finally beginning to look like Christmas around here. My mom made L this beautiful advent calendar la...

We've started preparations for L's Birthday/Halloween party now that my mom is here. We've been making decorations and costumes ...

Sometimes I get inspired by an activity idea and want to do it right away with L (without really thinking it all through). This is a case in...

Here are some of the things that L has been doing. This is one of her favorite games. I think almost every animal she possesses is on it...

This is the set up for.... Five little speckled frogs sat on a speckled log eating some most delicious grubs (yum yum) One jumped into the...