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Book Club Summer Edition Part 2: More Books and activities a year later
One year later after we wrote part one of this post here we are settling into our summer rhythm once again. And once again we are following the Montessori approach to home learning, which means we...
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The Unprepared Environment: When a child loses their Peacefulness
It was a hard week. A combination of things that in hind sight could have been spaced more evenly to allow for Quentin to better process them. It began on the Saturday with his big brother leaving....
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Book Club Summer Edition Part 3: Water books we love
Summer most definitely means being by the water for us. Everything from beach combing to long afternoons pool side to even the occasional puddle jump. We love it when the books on our bookshelves...
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Book Club Summer Edition Part 4: Books about Food and where it comes from
Summer is my favourite time of year to be outside, and one of my absolute favourite places to be is surrounded by green an growing things. This includes stocking our bookshelves with our favourite...
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Montessori Summer Book Club: Back to School with a new favourite
Our summer time is about to come to an end and we are slowly gathering matching socks and finding pants that aren’t too short. We are also rotating our bookshelves to include our favourite school...
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Back to school shoes: Softstar review and giveaway!
September has seen us settling back into the school year routine. We are often asked to recommend a quality indoor shoe that is appropriate for the Montessori environment. Ever since Quentin started...
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October: The goings on inside the classroom and out
The Autumn months seem to fly by so quickly with everyone in school mode. This is usually around the time when everyone is feeling a bit burnt out by the return to school and it is also the time when...
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Montessori Book Club: Winter is Coming
November for us is a time to settle in to the coming months of grey drizzly days. There’s no better way to do that for us than to curl up under a cosy blanket with a warm mug and a stack of books. This...
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Montessori Book Club: This year’s favourite Winter books
We have been rotating our book shelves with week to fill them with our favourite winter themed books. We have previously posted some of our favourites here which include our favourite winter wordless...
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All good things are wild and free: The end of our Nature Days
This is a hard post to write and it’s hard to know where to start and so perhaps I’ll start at the beginning. Not my beginning or Quentin’s but perhaps at school’s beginning. Early on in Quentin’s...
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Montessori Book Club: Our favourite Hanukkah books and resources
It’s the first night of Hanukkah tonight and so I thought I’d share our absolute favourite books and activities to learn more about this beautiful holiday. “For eight days and nights, Special candles...
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Montessori compatible Christmas Books – A rare and beautiful thing Part 2
Last year we waited patiently, while everyone was posting their “must haves” and “what to buys” and “favourite Christmas books evers” for this book to humbly be mentioned. It wasn’t. And so, this year,...
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A new Christmas Book
When this book was featured to be released I knew we simply had to have it. So much so that when I found it wasn’t going to released here for a while I ordered it from overseas. We are big Shirley...
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Montessori Book Club: Anti Bullying Books for Preschoolers
February in Canada holds Valentine’s Day, Family Day and also Anti-Bullying Day. So many opportunities to continue conversations with children about empathy and continue our work in Peace Education....
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Montessori Book Club: Anti-Bullying Books for Elementary
This week as we prepare to partake in Canada’s Pink Shirt Day, we are continuing our book list of anti-bullying books that we love! My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig is an important book for not only...
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New Montessori at Home Materials
It’s been a weekend full of sunshine and the promise of Spring here. And so I was thrilled to pull some gorgeous new language materials out of the postbox this weekend! If you follow us on Instagram...
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Montessori Book Club: Little People Big Dreams – Maria Montessori
We have been waiting for this book for what seems like forever! If you have never explored this series you ought to. Based on an amazing and diverse group of powerful, world changing women the latest...
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Montessori Practical Life Food Prep: Hand pressed juice
“The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment therein is the very essence of a useful education.”- Maria...
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Montessori Book Club: A new book about inclusion
This is a gorgeous new book from the best selling author of The Word Collector. Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds was released at the end of February and it has become one of our most valuable books I...
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Montessori Book Club: Spring nature books
Spring is finally catching up here on the west coast of Canada and that means we are rummaging through our book shelves and rotating in all of our spring favourites. This book is absolutely stunning....
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