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I’m Markëta, a homeschool mom of two sharing our homeschool journey, Montessori-inspired activities, field trips, travel, mom life, and everything in between.

Photos from School at Home and Beyond's post 04/21/2026

Our Homeschool Mondays are my favorite because they’re usually quiet. Since we have nowhere to be until the afternoon, we can take our time with our school work! Here are some snippets from today:

💦Studying the water cycle.

💧 This is the workbook they’re using in the previous slide. We recently toured our local water provider and they sent us home with this helpful book.

🍳Breakfast: The kids requested messy omelettes and I obliged! They worked while I cooked. I made their omelettes with ground chicken, bell peppers, onions, and cheese.

🥣I wasn’t in the mood for omelettes so I had a Greek yogurt parfait instead.

🧮High School Geometry for him, Montessori Math for her.❤️

🌸My view while making dinner.😍

🍴My, “I don’t feel like cooking” dinner: Blackened Salmon, roasted sweet potatoes, salad greens, and sourdough, served with garlic butter.

Have a wonderful Monday evening!✨

breakfast

04/09/2026

Yesterday, while we were studying weather, my kids decided to quiz me on cloud formations. They showed me photos from our weather materials and I was supposed to, “Name that cloud”.

Except I didn’t remember all of them.

And my kids were so tickled!😂

Especially when I started making up cloud names.🙈🤣🌧️⛅️☁️

One serendipity in homeschooling is that we get to re-learn things we’ve forgotten, while making memories with our kids along the way.❤️

And, we’re WELL overdue for a good cloud watching session. I’ll add that to our spring activity list!☁️

Photos from School at Home and Beyond's post 04/07/2026

The Montessori Event - The Biggest Montessori Conference in the World!✨

“The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less, and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.”
-Maria Montessori

The weekend of March 19-22nd was very special for me this year because I had the privilege of attending the biggest Montessori conference in the world: The Montessori Event in Washington, D.C.!🎉 This conference serves as a type of continuing education for Montessori guides, administrators, and researchers, and it served the same purpose for me.

I went with one specific goal: To become a better prepared adult for my son who is now a 12 year old adolescent.

The conference delivered! I walked away feeling empowered to continue following the Montessori Method with my son and encouraged to share our journey with you!

I’ve included some very short inspo from the conference in these slides. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions!

04/02/2026

Art Books for Big Kids (Ages 8+)!🎨

We recently received these art books and I’m so pleased with them that I had to share! If you or your child (or tween, or teen — you know what I mean 😉) enjoy making art, these are worth adding to your wishlist!🖌️

The spring + nature theme is fun and fitting for the season. Hang around and watch the full video to see inside some of these books. Oh, and since my video was getting too long, I’m sharing the rest in Stories.

Have a wonderful Wednesday evening!📚

03/27/2026

Mapping Antarctica🇦🇶

This week the kids finished making their Antarctica maps! First, they used the Antarctica stencils to outline the continent and fill-in mountain ranges. Then, my kids drew everything else free-hand utilizing one of our world atlas resources. They added more mountain ranges and labeled bodies of water and ice shelves.

After my son completed his map, he used the Antarctica biomes mat to check his memory. He labeled the geographical features he remembered (20 of them!) and reviewed the rest.

Antarctica might seem like one huge landform of ice, but there are so many intricacies to discover! My son’s favorite map fact was learning the difference between the South Pole and the Magnetic South Pole. (The South Pole is the southernmost point on Earth and is fixed. The Magnetic South Pole moves over time. It’s where the Earth’s magnetic field points vertically upward.)

Note: They said next time they’ll use pen to label land and water features AFTER watercolor. The were a bit disappointed that the black ink smeared.

Does your child have an interest in learning about Antarctica? ✨

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