This is a super easy DIY math counting activity to teach your child simple addition, number recognition and numeral to quantity association. This is also an awesome fine and gross motor exercise as those little fingers would have to open and match the pegs to the craft sticks. What you... Read more →
Adrian really enjoys Color Code puzzle (buy here), which is a logic game, featuring patterned see-through stackable colorful tiles. Color Code is a unique game where a child layers these see-through tiles to create different multi-colored shapes as shown in the included challenge booklet. The booklet offers challenges from one... Read more →
Today, we are stimulating the sense of 👃🏻SMELL with the variety of soaps during this Montessori Sensorial Activity. What is Sensorial Work? Sensorial comes from the word "sense," where a child is able to concentrate on the refinement of all the senses, from visual to stereognostic. The purpose of sensorial... Read more →
Children love water play. So, today, we are making a lake using a baking tray filled with water on which your child can sail small boats made from walnut-halves. What you will need: walnuts, colorful cardstock to make sails, toothpicks or thin straws with a tip cut to a point,... Read more →
Today, we are conducting kids science experiment: Capillary Action (also called Rainbow Walking Water), which is a timelapse experiment on water and paper's ability to transfer color from one glass to the other, mixing two primary colors and, in the process, creating secondary colors. This is also a fun sensorial... Read more →
As a Father's Day gift, children wrote a special secret love message to their Dad. (I knew there is a purpose for a white crayon in our oil pastel crayon set!) What you need: a white crayon (we are using one from a Giotto Oil Pastels set - buy here);... Read more →
This is a lesson on WET pouring 1 : 1, where a child will pour water from one spouted pitcher to the other and back. (Identical to our DRY Spout 1:1 pouring lesson- see a link below), but this time using water instead of dry objects like coffee beans, dry... Read more →
On June 14th, we celebrate 🇺🇸 Flag Day by paying tribute to the Stars and Stripes and also to all the flags of the world. We love using Holidays as themed unit studies, and today, we are learning all about flags. This World Flag Board is a Montessori Geography material... Read more →
This is a fun sensorial Father's Day craft which, besides advancing fine-motor control via the use of a dropper, will also teach your child ❤️💛💙 PRIMARY and SECONDARY colors. Adrian started by gluing ballon-ribbons and three white cotton pads to a piece of paper. He then added ❤️ red 💛... Read more →
Lacing wooden geometric shapes (buy here or similar here) is a classic Montessori Sensorial activity. This is also an easy DIY activity to make at home with colored heavy-cardstock (buy here), scissors and a hole puncher. You can match the shoelace to the shape or use complimentary (opposite) lace color... Read more →
June 8th is World Oceans Day, and we were inspired to start our Ocean Unit Study. As always, we begin any unit study by referring to books while exploring our animal figurines. Children love National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of the Ocean (buy here). The book is a... Read more →
Today, we are exploring fractions. My children love LEGO. They are always either working on building LEGO or enjoy playing with it, so we have it out most of the time. Fractions are an abstract mathematical concept, and even Julia at seven-and-a-half is still not grasping it entirely. Making abstract... Read more →
My children love LEGO! We are happy to find LEGO Juniors level for Adrian since DUPLO does not spark a fire in his eyes any longer and Julia's Friends and Creator series are too hard for him. Juniors level is perfect for Adrian right now at three-and-a-half years old. He... Read more →
Children are excited to begin our 🐸 Frog Unit Study. Frogs are amphibians (meaning "two-lives"). Toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians (blind worms) are also members of the amphibian group. "Two-lives" means that frogs begin their lives in the water as eggs and then tadpoles, and when they are fully developed,... Read more →
Today, we are conducting a science experiment, by placing two tangerines in water: one whole and another one peeled and observing which one will sink and which one will float❓ What you need: two tangerines (you can also use oranges or clementines), a see-through container or a deep bowl, water,... Read more →
When I asked my children what is their favorite spring-inspired book, they unanimously replied that it is The Tiny Wish (buy here), where Anja, an enchanting girl from Norway, experiences an extraordinary adventure with her animal friends. Lori Evert, the New York Times bestseller author, created The Tiny Wish book... Read more →