Montessori Beginnings

One of the highlights of our recent trip to Kelowna was getting to visit Mount Boucherie which is an extinct stratovolcano.  L was really ...

We live up the hill from the coast.  On Sunday we were coming back from town and decided to drive down along the beach.  We got to the bott...

A few weeks ago we had a wonderful family day searching for fossils.  Vancouver Island has many places which are perfect for amature fossil ...

It seems like it was only a couple of weeks ago that I was posting about the beauty of Autumn and cleaning up the garden.  Oh wait it was on...

Now that the weather is really nice we've "shelved"  Montessori shelf activities for a while and taken the opportunity to expl...

This week the weather has been fabulous here so we've taken advantage. Starfish spotting. We found the mother of all starfish. Look at...

Thank you to Making of a Montessori Mum for inspiring me to make Valentines Day a special day for our family (the beautiful sunshine helped ...

The other day L's Great Auntie S and Great Uncle S came for a visit. We refer to them as GAS and GUS for short. Rather unfortunate acr...

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 ...

For Daddy's birthday we decided to go to a Wild Animal park close to our home. I really don't like zoos and animals in captivity but...

We finally got around to getting out and collecting leaves at the park. I've wanted to try leaf rubbing for some time now. We took a bas...

As anyone can tell by my cardboard creations we don't have a lot of money to spend. With only one of us working it is very seldom that L...

For the last little while, well long while actually daddy has been having to do extra work on what are supposed to be his days off. So we ha...