Please visit Mommy Moment, for a view of our Holiday Sets Basket !  It's been a daily favorite :) This week, we made Gingerbread Play Dough.  I got the idea from Pinterest, but changed it to the spices that we love most.  We also ground each spice by hand.  The girls did all the measuring and mixing.  They packed some for their classrooms, since the twins are in the middle of a Jan Brett unit at school.  Today they read Gingerbread Baby.  Tis the season! Bean, age 5.5 reads her new book to Peanut, age 3.5 at bedtime.  Bean is really into being the big sister, and takes her job very seriously.  Especially where books are involved.   Mortar and Pestle for Clove & Nutmeg Grinding Counting and Grinding Whole Cloves Great Gingerbread Playdough Recipe  from Pinterest Our first batch!  It smells like a dream. Busy hands and cooperation Peanut is beaming with pride here. ...

Sometimes I giggle about this blog, because we are so different:  we have a Montessori home, with Montessori Philosophy and Materials available 24/7 for traditionally schooled children.  So, the work we do is a little different than a Montessori School or a Homeschool.  We afterschool ?  Is that a word?  I guess so!!   Water Transferring with Eye Dropper, this is SO challenging.  Great for 5 year olds. Pumpkin exploring some Pink Tower & Brown Stair Extensions After baking, we used our mortar and pestle for crushing egg shells.  They LOVED this! Crushing Eggs and Filling Muffin Tins with batter. Bean comes home from a FULL DAY at K and still wants to work!  This is her sensitive period for writing, and reading.  She's taking full advantage of the movable alphabet. Bean spelled all types of things, with objects and through her imagination.  After all that work, she still w...

Monday's Montessori Moment at Mommy Moment is all about the Cards and Counters work shown in use below.  Go see it, here. Hug a pumpkin! Collecting and counting pumpkin seeds for roasting Peanut enjoys the mini knobbed cylinders Showing off her clean pumpkin collection, from Pumpkin Washing Letter review for Bean, who is practicing writing these letters.  We worked on them with the sandpaper first, then on chalkboards, and then paper.  She keeps everything in a folder, she's quite the collector! Concentration:  Look at the tongue! Card and Counters by my 3 year olds :)   5 is odd, no pair Proudly Linked to:

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Click here to see the full post over at Mommy Moment:  The Mystery Number The girls are all officially back to school!  Bean is in Kindergarten, full day at our town's wonderful public school.  Pumpkin and Peanut are at Playschool, just four mornings a week.  Our afternoons are still FULL of Montessori fun!  I guess it's what happens when your Mom is a Montessori Teacher, and your are a little girl full of wonder....man, I have it good :) Proudly Linked to:

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