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Posts Tagged ‘Montessori’


Sep
04

A Grand Unified Theory of Homeschooling

by heather

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about different educational philosophies.  From the typical public school curriculum and methodologies, or “school-at-home” homeschooling, to Charlotte Mason, Waldorf, Thomas Jefferson, Montessori, lapbooking, notebooking, earth-schooling, unschooling, Classical education… there is so much variety.  And in my research and learning over the years, there is something of value in [...]

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Sep
03

Keeping Us On Our Toes: The Best Laid Plans of Unschooling

by heather

I’m pretty sure I’ve posted before about how whatever we plan for our kids, they’ll turn things all topsy turvy and surprise us.   In our case, it’s how I overdid early academics with my son, forcing him to do lots of workbooks (and yes, I do mean *forcing*) when he was far too young [...]

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Mar
26

Tot School Weekly Update

by heather

Pomme is 39 months old Okay, I wasn’t going to get into this whole “Tot School” thing, since we’re not really doing all that much in terms of formal schooling.  But, she did a few really cool things this week, and I know that “Tot School” isn’t supposed to necessarily mean “formal schooling” anyway, so [...]

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Jun
16

Counting on Her Fingers

by heather

Pomme is a genius.  I’m not biased or anything.  But I do think it’s exceptional that at age 2.5, she knows all her letters and half of the letter sounds, has known all her colours for almost a year, knows all her shapes, knows all the written digits and is super-keen to point them out [...]

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May
12

Getting Organized

by heather

With the new rule in place about no computer for me before noon, and with Flipper taking some maternally-imposed down time in his room, I kind of had some time to kill this morning. So I pounced on Pomme’s bedroom, which at one time a few months ago had been a paragon of Montessori organization [...]

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Mar
20

My Daughter is the Cutest. Toddler. Ever.

by heather

And I’m NOT just saying that because I’m her mother.  Well, maybe I’m just a little bit influenced by that.  But we do hear that an awful lot even from strangers… Don’t want to take my word for it?  Have a look for yourself.  Here she is cuddlin Gunther the “orange cat”, who she used [...]

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Mar
11

New Carnival of Homeschooling

by heather

The latest Carnival of Homeschooling is up, and while I didn’t submit a post this week (we’ve been sick around here so I haven’t done much blogging), I’m still looking forward to reading a ton of great posts from other blogs! I’m particularly looking forward to Home is Where You Start From‘s look at Homer’s [...]

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Feb
27

Toddler Smarts on Display

by heather

Here’s how Pomme has been showing off her developing smarts this week: According to her, the one on the bottom is a cat, the one at the very top is a pig, and the rest are whales.  The spots are eyes.  She has labelled her drawings before (usually as whales lol), and she has drawn [...]

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Feb
24

Video: My 2-year-old Can Crack Eggs– Montessori, Practical Life, and Cooking Skills

by heather

As I’ve mentioned before, we are following a Montessori-inspired philosophy with Pomme’s toddlerhood. Following her interests, she has ample opportunity to learn through self-motivated exploration.  At this age, the emphasis is more on “Practical Life” skills than on ‘academics.’  She learns primarily through observation, imitation, and experimentation, as indeed human beings are designed to learn! [...]

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Jan
30

Creatively Combining

by heather

Today Pomme was playing/working with her wooden shape puzzle by Melissa and Doug, and the shape-matching cards I had made to go with it, when I noticed something interesting. She had received Melissa and Doug’s clock shape puzzle for Christmas… or her birthday.  I’m ashamed to say I can’t remember which.  I think it was [...]

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