Where have we been? Not in the school room! We took a mid-session break and went to Orlando, FL for a week. Of course the excitement was so high there wasn’t much accomplished in terms of school work the week before or after our trip. But I have come to embrace the belief that “learning happens everywhere”. So here are some examples. Practical Life DJ learned to drive a car at Lego driving school and he received a drivers license….
It has been a full three weeks since I last posted! That’s the longest break since I started this blog just over a year ago. The lack of blog posts is mostly because we’ve been doing a lot of this… DJ was also in a wedding last week. It was an interesting experience trying to explain “wedding” and “marriage” to a 3 year old. He started to understand at one point when I explained mommy and daddy are married. Then…
DJ did some practical life work in the yard with his dad recently. It was hot, hard, dry work… but… It was SO worth the effort! Now this is the way to do summer. And just in time too as we’re entering a two week heat wave in our region. And it’s contributing to an increase in social engagements too. He also did some art work this week. I’ve been really impressed with his skill with scissors lately. Before discovering…
The Montessori language album that I use has a section titled “Art Folders”. The purpose is to expose the child to various forms of art and to stimulate conversation about art. I love this idea and it’s something I’d really like to do. However, the album says the materials include “three color-coded sets of folders, each containing 12-15 pictures of artwork.” The first set is for artists, one folder per artist. So assuming I had a folder for 10 famous…