Happy Valentine’s Day! Although I don’t do much with themes, DJ did participate in a Make & Mail Valentine exchange in his toddler playgroup this year. I was so incredibly impressed with the way he chose to paint the hearts. It made me a little sad to not be able to keep them! DJ was playing with his markers the other day, stacking them together and counting them. So I pulled out his number rods to compare each set of…
I am so excited to finally present this new work I can hardly sit still. The Montessori method is genius in many ways, but the way it introduces music is just incredible. Montessori bells are two sets of either 8 bells each (white only) or 13 bells each (white and black). Children are taught first to match each bell to the control set and then to grade the bells from Middle C to High C. The “official” set of 26…
DJ received this Primary Science Lab Set for his birthday a few months ago. It’s been upstairs in his playroom until this morning when he came downstairs caring the whole box and saying, “Let’s do this!” The set came with a few idea cards so I went through them and chose “Mixing Impossible” which is a simple oil and water experiment. I did take photos but I’ll warn you they are dark. It’s hard to take time to get lighting…
School these days is all about letters and maps, maps and letters. We have now done 13 of the 40 sounds, or about a third. I’m really impressed with DJ’s memory for sounds. And I’m beginning to catch him outside of school time exploring words on his own such as h-h-hat. And we haven’t even done /h/ yet! A new addition to our language shelves is a sand tray. It is used to practice writing letters without needing to use…