This weekend we painted wooden eggs with liquid watercolors.  The girls mixed their own shades using the primary colors.  Once dry, we coated them with a bit of beeswax.  It was a simple, easy, fun craft that came out to be a sweet decoration.  The eggs are proudly displayed in the living room to explore. 

Today, the girls spontaneously began sorting their living room toys by color.  Peanut shouted, "I'll be right back" and returned with color box 2 to match the color piles.  I snapped these photos of their fun.  What colorful little kids!

These photos were taken last weekend, when I started dusting-  the girls were suddenly re-interested in the sensorial works.  They spent a silent (it was Daddy's turn to sleep in) Saturday with the materials, while I drank my coffee and read my new book.  This is the life. Red Knobless Cylinders, she's making a tower She's sitting on the Pink Tower.  It's okay, we're at home  :) Bean wants to draw the Knobless Cylinders as towers. Working with the Binomial Cube My blue tower, on paper "It's an elephant" I threw this photo in so that you can see their creative play with Montessori and Waldorf items.  It's not all neat and tidy all the time.... ....they're little kids!!!  

Pumpkin is ordering the Brown Stairs. Pumpkin, now 3.5 has been working with the Brown Stair since she was just two years old.  Here you can see her building it vertically.  She was also pretending to put mortar in between each prism (there's construction on our street) which is fine by me.  The fast she's using her imagination shows me that she has mastered this concept.   She caught me taking this photo...."What Mom?...It IS called the Brown Stairs.  I was just checking with my feet!"  Fair enough. The Brown Stair Lesson- Area General-Sensorial Specific- Visual Discrimination , Size awareness Materials   See the photos :)  Aims Direct-  Refinement of the ability to observe, compare, discriminate, differentiate, reason, decide, solve problems and appreciate our world. Indirect- Learning to grade prisms by discrimination of volume Preparation:  Pink tower, knobbed cylinders Age- First ye...

 A new collection of Magnetic and Non-Magnetic for our house, gathered by the girls.  It's got a little Valentine's theme with the box and the cookie cutter! Why do I teach them cursive in this world of print, computers, and type?  Dr. Montessori found that cursive had gentle curved lines are a natural extension of the hand.  I tend to be a little 'old school' about Dr. Montessori's writings at my home, and lead my children by her old lectures.  Plus, there are far less letter and sound reversals (b,d,p,q,g) when the child learns the sounds with cursive first, or alongside print letters.  I have found the transition to print very easy for my girls, since they were so very interested in letter formation by the time they had a good amount of time with cursive.  Give it a shot! "Must one begin with strokes? The logical answer is “No.” These require too much effort on the part of the child to make them. If he is to begin wit...