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…
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…