I know I’ve been gone a long time! Writing posts seems to take so much more effort than sharing photos on instagram! And then we made a sudden, mid-holiday decision to sell our little house and buy another house with more space. It’s an understatement to say this last month has been crazy! We have done zero homeschooling since Thanksgiving and just moved into our new home on Friday. It’s incredible and amazing and there is still a lot of…
We continued our study of the Montessori Five Great Lessons with a two week exploration of the Coming of Life to Earth. The Coming of Life focuses on the historical evolution of Life from early bacteria and other single-celled organisms to the formations of plants, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. The lesson ends just at the advent of humans. The guide that we used strongly encouraged providing real examples of living plants and animals to compare to the…
Montessori elementary has five signature lessons at the core of the curricula that are told each year for the six years of elementary. The lessons generally cover the origins of all things: the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life, the beginning of humans, the beginning of writing and the beginning of numbers. I’ve been so excited all summer, because our local enrichment program has a science class and they agreed to teach the lessons in a six week…
As we’re beginning the Montessori Lower Elementary curriculum, the math sequence becomes even more varied than it was before. Geometry becomes a separate subject. Which is good for Danny because he still loves math and again chose it first when presented a work plan on the first day. Operations Danny has been working with 4-digit addition and subtraction for awhile but since we took the summer off from doing math, I wanted to start with some review before introducing him…