Welcome to 💚Africa! Jambo means "Hello" in Swahili! Springbok is African National animal. Disney's Animal Kingdom is a zoological theme park. The Savanna in Africa Disney is a completely natural habitat, carefully crafted to resemble closely Africa's ecosystem. It is 800 square miles of natural terrain, including forests, wetlands of... Read more →

We finally arrived! Can you guess where we are? Welcome Disney's Hollywood Studios! Have you done For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration? We joined Frozen friends—Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and the newly-appointed royal historians of Arendelle—for an unforgettable and frosty interactive Sing-Along. During the final song, Elsa... Read more →

Today, March 21st, we are celebrating the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in 🇩🇪 Germany in 1685. Johann Sebastian Bach would have been 332 years old today! During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was known more as a great harpsichord player and notable organist, rather than a... Read more →

Happy ☘️ St. Patrick's Day! Children have been so excitedly anticipating the holiday, and here it is. We learned that on St. Patrick's Day many people give cards or flowers to their family and friends. People also make cookies, cakes and other goodies to share with others. Some people wear... Read more →

Are you excitedly anticipating☘️ St. Patrick's Day? Will you be trying to catch a Leprechaun? Do you think any of your perfect traps would work? Well, a legend says that you can catch a Leprechaun only if you have 🍀a four-leafed clover! Do you know the difference between a shamrock... Read more →

Julia currently is in a sensitive period for arts and crafts. During her mindful time, she prefers to ✏️draw, 🖌color, 🎨paint, knit with a knitting fork - wooden lucet (see a 🎥 video here) , or do 🖋 Zentangle Art (read a post here). Apparently, she also enjoys making decorative... Read more →

It is believed that Leprechauns, mischievous and canny, and at the same time hard-working and honest (Leprechaun always keeps his word), hide their pot of 💰 gold at the end of the 🌈 rainbow. So, today, we are making rainbows from Montessori color tablets and knobless cylinders. Adrian had put... Read more →

February 27 is International Polar Bear Day, celebrated to raise awareness about the conservation status of polar bears and the impact of global warming and reduced sea ice on polar bear population. Polar bear facts: The polar bear (together with the grizzly bear) is the largest land-dwelling predatory animal on... Read more →

Julia has been enjoying all sorts of arts and crafts lately, knitting fork in particular. This knitting tool (buy here) is a perfect introduction to a pleasure of working with yarn. With a simple hand and finger movement, a child creates a loose, chain-like stitch. This fork is made in... Read more →

Happy Valentine's💝 Day. I hope you had a lovely celebration. Today, I will show you a sneak peek into our Learning Space (our classroom), as well as a summary of our Valentine's inspired activities. When we moved into our new house (in September of 2016), and I walked into this... Read more →

This year, for Classroom Valentine's gifts, Julia decided to make small hearts from beads and pipe-cleaners. (See Adrian doing this craft here). I encourage hand-made gifts since such activity promotes creativity, patience (she had to make 36!), and develops fine-motor skills. This cannot get any more practical as a Montessori... Read more →

To conclude our Chinese New Year celebration, Julia and Adrian decided to have a tea party. China is notable for its 🍵 green tea, and Julia remembered from the presentation at her school (read a post here), that China (along with Hong Kong, Korea and Macau) get three days of... Read more →

Happy🎊 Lunar New Year of a Rooster! Rooster 🐓 is smart, independent and full of energy! Wishing everyone fortune and good luck! Every 12 years (i.e. 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017, and 2029) there is a Rooster year, beginning at Chinese New Year. In Chinese astrology, each... Read more →

The Year 2017 is the Year of a Rooster, according to Chinese zodiac cycle. The new year begins on January 28, 2017 and will last until February 15, 2018. (Guided by the lunisolar Chinese calendar, the date changes from year to year.) Today, Julia had a beautiful celebration at her... Read more →

What is inside of our Winter Poetry Basket? I like the idea of having a little basket (well, a box in our case) with a themed activity. Today, it is a box with poetry readings, where I would also add anything that might go along with a poem, and some... Read more →

We celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by remembering that we shall never stop dreaming! Especially dreaming about world peace, about all people being respected and treated equally, about a day when we will all tolerate each other's differences, knowing that it is our differences that make us unique individuals:... Read more →

My children are captivated by🌨snow! So, to explore our natural affection, we are learning about mysteries of fascinating snowflakes by reading about them and by exploring the subject hands-on through snowflake crafts. First, we observe and admire. Then we read ... The Secret Life of a Snowflake book (buy here)... Read more →

Today, we are learning about 🌋volcanoes and the science behind its eruption, by conduction a volcano eruption experiment: both 🏡indoors or ☃️outdoors! First, we learned about volcanoes by reading Flip The Flaps: Planet Earth book (buy here). Children loved how the flaps open while revealing interesting facts such as "Are... Read more →

I cannot believe we are still harvesting our tomatoes! They look pretty nice next to our Christmas Tree:) However, I trust this is our last harvest this year. Can you believe it is almost New Year? Yummy and juicy! Children grew these tomatoes from seeds, and now the vines are... Read more →

What was on your child's wish list for Santa? Julia asked for LEGO. And since she was good this year, Santa delivered her LEGO Creator Expert Santa's workshop. The set comes with 883 pieces and the box says 12+ but Julia (7 years old) was able to finish it completely... Read more →