One of my favorite parts of DJ’s play area is the wall mounted art easel. My husband made this for DJ for his 2nd birthday/Christmas and I can’t be happier with how it turned out. And it has inspired a lot of free form art from DJ as he’s able to access writing tools (crayons, colored pencils, markers and paint pens) and paper whenever he wants. He can also see art supplies like paint, glue and scissors at all times…
In my first post, I talked a bit about my planning stage at that time. I have read all of the books I listed there and more since then, but I decided not to take the KHT Montessori training program as I thought I would. Although I do believe, based on reviews I’ve read that it is a quality program, there were a couple of key aspects that led me to an alternate choice. A couple of months ago, I…
While it is common for homeschool blogs to give “school room” tours, our school room is in our living room. So welcome to our house! Our living room is long and narrow so it’s difficult to get an overview picture of the whole room. The picture above is DJ’s play area. These shelves have mostly toys, although there are some educational benefits to most of them. The brown box is full of books. Too many books, I know, but I…
Now that D is just weeks away from his second birthday, I’m beginning to feel the pressure of being prepared for homeschooling during his preschool years. While it still seems amazing to me that preschool has become nearly mandatory in today’s world, I can truly see D’s potential as he learns so much every day on his own. So I’ve been doing a lot of research on homeschooling methods for preschoolers and the early months of this blog will mostly…