Montessori Beginnings

Poor L has been totally neglected on this blog since Little J came along.  I felt it was high time for an update!  Now that she is home for...

  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...

Wee Folk Art recently posted this video on their Facebook page on how to make a driftwood xylophone . It was a nobrainer that we HAD to try ...

 I've been teaching a Music Appreciation class at L's Montessori school this past year.  The children are ages 3 to 6.  Lately we ha...

Okay the continent box is taking ages to complete so in the mean time I thought I'd post about some of the activities we have been doing...

One of the best gifts L got for Christmas this year are these water flutes .  She uses them in the bathtub and we both love them.  As well a...

Being a musician myself one of my hopes is that I can instill the same love of music in my daughter.  My approach to introducing L to music ...

I have been teaching a music appreciation and understanding class at L's Montessori school.  The children are between the ages of 3and 5...

Our last week of advent calendar activities.  Phew!  L was on Christmas holidays this week.  In a way I miss the days when it was just L an...

Lately we've been listening to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons . I painted four of these bare trees for each of us.  I then put o...

We 've been working on our second Carnival of the Animals project for the past week.  What we were working on was a shadow puppet theat...

We had so much fun doing activities centered around Peter and the Wolf that I decided to try out The Carnival of the Animals by Camille S...

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...

 We've been learning about different instruments and their sounds for about a year now and I printed out some instrument cards for L to ...