I am a huge fan of the Montessori approach and I try to employ it in our homeschool as often as possible. Now that my favorite season, Fall is here, I’ve been busy assembling Fall Learning Trays for my 4-year-old. Have you heard of Montessori Learning Trays? In a Montessori classroom or in a Montessori …
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Fall is one of my favorite seasons! I look forward to the changing colors of the foliage and the feel of brisk air. For little ones, there’s so much to learn and explore. In honor of my favorite season, I’m featuring 13 free fall printables and hands-on activities for Preschool. Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert …
Math is a subject I want my boys to fall in love with. In order for that to happen, it’s important for them to have a strong foundation. Math makes more sense when it is more interesting, fun and engaging. Anytime we learn math, I always employ manipulatives or visuals to make concepts easier to …
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Is your son or daughter learning multiplication timetables? Are they having trouble memorizing the facts? Enter the Pythagoras Board! Pythagoras Board is a Montessori math manipulative. Instead of rote memorization of timetables, the Pythagoras Board is a visual, tactile way to learn multiplication facts. Since my son started learning skip counting, I’ve been looking for …
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My 3-year-old, AJ has taken an interest in money lately. He’s been intrigued with the different types of coins and collecting as many pennies as he can. So I seized that opportunity to teach him about coins and its’ values. Interest led learning is one of the best ways of absorbing knowledge. When a child …
As a teacher and parent, I’m always looking for great writing curriculums. Writing does not come easy to many students. When I taught middle school, many of my students struggled with writing an organized paper. Recently I was introduced to IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing) writing by one of my friends. Joie was a former school …
Letter reversals are very common for students in the primary grades to make occasionally. Recently I noticed my preschooler transposing some letters in his name. He started reversing the letters e and s in his name. So I knew I had to come up with an intervention plan quickly. With reading and writing, multi-sensory instruction is great as it …
In the last post, I shared 7 great reading strategies for preschoolers. In today’s post, I’ll be sharing some of our favorite books for preschoolers. We enjoy a variety of books so it was very hard for me to narrow it down to just 16 books. Since April is poetry month, let’s start off with some of …
Growing up, I don’t really recall my parents reading to me. Being immigrants at that time, their focus was on providing a life for us. They were wonderful parents -very involved, loving and very education oriented. But they just didn’t know the importance of reading aloud to their children. I think like most parents in …
This week, we spend time studying ancient China. It was fun time traveling through the past where one of the earliest civilizations was born. Every dynasty that ruled China, left many contributions, discoveries and inventions. Using this book as our guide, we completed a few projects from each dynasty, from the Bronze Age to the …
