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09/12/2014

For my new Georgia friends who keep asking:)

What makes an activity ‘Montessori’? What is the difference between a Montessori activity and any other kids activity? I’ve seen this question and variations of it often recently. While I’m no expert, I created this infographic to concisely share the elements of a Montessori activity that set it apa…

04/18/2013

Salsa's work with the visual for Montessori's Great River, an analogy to the systems of the Human Body. Isn't he photogenic?

04/18/2013

Bear's work with the Visual for Montessori's Great River, which is an analogy to the systems of the human body.

08/30/2012

Yay! Very awesome. Thank you, google!

Montessori materials will adorn the Google home page this Friday in honor of Maria Montessori on her 142nd birth anniversary. Happy Birthday Dr. Montessori and thank you Google for the doodle! What a tremendous honor that will be seen by millions of people worldwide.

04/28/2012

We have just added a tab to our page where you can directly watch our YouTube videos. Please check it out at this link...

04/03/2012

Found this yesterday and thought it was a nice list of resources for elementary montessori! http://www.joydelaney.com/montessori-materials.html

I spend most of my day teaching children ages 9 - 12 using the Montessori Method. As a Montessori teacher, it is often required that we make many of our own materials for our classroom and I have...

04/02/2012

Thanks, Deb!

Blog post at LivingMontessoriNow.com : It’s exciting that I’m asked more and more often about Montessori elementary as many of the Montessori homeschool preschoolers and Monte[..]

12/19/2011

Pastor Byrd shares about Ana's cards

12/19/2011

For a fun Christmas/vocabulary activity try having your students translate these verbose Christmas carol titles back into their original form:

Example: Soundless Nocturnal Timespan (answer: Silent Night)

12/15/2011

Can't wait to see all of these hard working children in what will be an awesome time of worship!

This is our 3rd Sunday of Christmas With Blackhawk! Join us December 18th as 100 children, sing, dance, act and share the message of Christmas. What a great way to celebrate! In addition to our normal Sunday Gathering times, the children will perform on Saturday, December 17th at 10:00 a.m. for our Special Needs Concert. Make sure to "share."

11/29/2011

Goldfish, Farming, Edgewood and Honey are on their way to our home, thanks to ztwistbooks! Aidan loves Life of Fred and is almost done with LOF Cats. Ana is getting into the grove with LOF Fractions. She is also enjoying some of the concepts she already learned prior to the LOF Elementary series becoming available by reviewing Aidan's LOF books when she thinks no one is looking!

Life of Fred is an engaging mathematics curriculum that is ideal for a homeschool or home tutoring s

11/19/2011

To anyone using Story of the World by http://www.welltrainedmind.com, check out this great blog post that includes a link to download timeline cards for Story of the World Vol 1. Can't wait to use these will 80 & Bear--they will be a great overview to SOTW Vol 1 and help give the big picture overview they need for their self-guided learning! Now I know how I will spend my evening (print/laminate/cut)! http://ourlearningjourneyhomeschooling.blogspot.com/2011/08/story-of-worldancient-timestimeline.html

These will also work with our task cards created by http://www.http://creekedgepress.com/!