Montessori Beginnings

We had such a great time with the Brown Bear story stones I made that when I saw these Very Hungry Caterpillar stones at Thrive 360 Living...

"Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?" We love this book by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle   I thought it wo...

One of the things on L's summer to do list was to build a fairy house with mommy.  We started collecting items for the house at the beg...

Trying to think of a year end gift for L's teachers is always tricky.  I want L to be able to make the gifts so they are more personal....

The weather has been gorgeous lately so we've been taking advantage and heading down to the beach in the mornings.  Baby J has his nap ...

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...

  We recently borrowed a video on habitats from the library.  It was really well made, upbeat and engaging and there were even little qui...

We recently borrowed the wonderful book Patterns In Nature by Jennifer Rozines Roy from the library.  It explains all about different typ...

 I saw this super fun camouflage activity over at Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational and just couldn't wait to try it out with...

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

There are two reasons why I haven't been posting much lately.  The first is that we are really just laying back and enjoying the last da...

It's finally been nice enough to go to the beach!  L did the land and water forms at school this year so she was excited when I suggeste...

We've been learning about clouds.  I had this wonderful vision of L and I lying on our backs in a grassy field gazing at the clouds with...

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 ...