Montessori Beginnings

We finally got around to making salt dough hand prints.  I have to say this was much easier than baking!  I quickly mixed up the dough usin...

Okay I guess at 14 months Sweetpea is technically a toddler but Baby J did help out with this and it just sounds so much cuter!   On Fr...

Month 10 has been full of changes and major leaps in development for Baby J.  The major thing for him is that he is now on the move!  In on...

I set up a new activity mainly for Sweetpea this week. I cut a hole in the side of a large milk jug and popped some clothes pegs inside.  T...

I thought I would write a post about what we do all day and our schedule.  Maybe some of you might find it interesting and I would also like...

  It's a potty party over here at the moment!! Sweetpea has been using the potty for several months now.  The great thing is that s...

I have been using this Montessori weaning table and chairs with the babies since the first day Sweetpea came here.  It is working amazingly...

  Having been a professional musician music has always been a huge part of my life.  One thing I am trying to do as a mother is to instil...

Okay here is the new environment I've set up in our home for the two infants 9 and 12 months.  This space is also shared with L.   It...

In the past when I've seen pictures on other Montessori blogs I have marveled at what the infants and children are capable of doing.  It...

When I first decided to do Montessori from the start with Baby J I was impressed but also a bit intimidated by the simplicity of it all and...

  L and I made these leaf prints back in October for the space above Baby J's change table.  This picture is not the best but they ar...

At five and a half months Baby J was more than ready to eat solid food.  For a few weeks before he started we had him sitting up at the tab...

  Things have been absolutely manic here lately with L's birthday, Halloween and Baby J's not sleeping.  I've been collecting...

The next mobile in the Montessori Infant mobile series is the Dancers mobile.  I was originally going to just eyeball all of the dancers an...

So this is Baby J's Montessori room.  I only came to the Montessori method when L was around 12 months so she had your typical adult or...