Last week was a busy one for DJ so here are some photos of his activities: DJ was able to help spin this Kugel Ball at the Science Center. A key principle of Montessori preschool is real life experience and DJ loves any museum where touching is expected! And of course, anything to do with water ranks up high on the preferred list. We went to the Zoo again now that we have a membership and this time it didn’t…
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…
One of the very first sensorial materials introduced in a Montessori classroom are the Cylinder Blocks. They are made of wood, with 10 cylinders cut out of each block. In one block, the cylinders are all the same height but decline in width from thick to thin. In another block, the cylinders are all the same width but decline in height from tall to short (this is the hardest block). A third block declines in both height and width (Tall/Thick down…
I started this blog back in August with the intention of using it to plan the setup of our Montessori Preschool at home. And then life happened! Now it is May and DJ is 2.5 years old and what a difference. His language skills are amazing and it makes it so fun to be able to communicate with him. In the past few months, I’ve acquired a large portion of the Montessori preschool materials and was lucky enough to get…