Montessori Beginnings

Naturally after learning about volcanoes our conversations turned to rocks and their different forms.  The Internet is an amazing thing and ...

Learning about volcanoes is always super fun!  We read several books from the library as well as watching eruptions on Youtube.  We talked ...

One of the first things on L's summer to do list was volcanoes.  I figured before we dove in and made a cool volcano erupt we needed to...

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

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

We finished the solar system unit quite a while ago now but I only just got around to taking pictures of our last two projects. The first...

Here are some more of our Solar System activities. This was another "try it" from the book Starting With Space: The Planets b...

On the first day of L's summer holidays we sat down together and made a list of all of the things she'd like to learn about and do ...

We found this beautiful book about the story of the Northern Lights at the library recently.  It is beautifully written and illustrated by...

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

Lately we've been learning about matter and how it can change. I introduced L to the three states of matter with this tray.  We talked ...

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...

This summer we've been all about science experiments.  As I mentioned in this  Dental Health  post we've been watching Sid the Scien...