Lessons Learned

Adapting Education

  • General update

    We covered a lot of material this week of which I did not post out of sheer exhaustion by the end of day I did not stay up to post.  Maggie and I went over the water cycle together however Lily did not learn about it because she had not woken up yet (very early…

  • Pegboard

    This morning our pegboard cylinder set came in the mail.  I couldn’t wait to see Lily’s reaction to it.  It is a very small copy to the real Montessori one but it helps to grasp the same concept.  I figured if she could use a small version she will know exactly what to do with…

  • Starting with the bears

    My day did not go as planned today–we did little compared to what I had planned.  But what we did we did it well. Beginning with the three bears puzzle.  It incorporates emotions and proper clothing for the proper people (size/type of person relationship). Lily did very well dressing for the proper occasions switching seamlessly…

  • September 21, 2015 post

    We spent the day playing, lounging & cleaning up after a long weekend with daddy & the beach. So little work was accomplished today with reading & writing. Activity:  sand letters We started with sand letters & I added the element of writing on the chalkboard.  A small one. We start with a sand letter…

  • Word puzzles

    The kiddos were successful today completing word puzzles that you spelled out each phoneme to create a word & used the picture puzzle as a guide.